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You know, we seem to make him worse. He started this thread curious about how "socialised medicine" worked, and now he's blowing the horn of private health care, saying that the UK, Canada and Australia's methods "infringe the rights of doctors", as well as destory all imagination, until nothing remains but darkness.
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There's a report in this week's issue of MacLeans' about problems in Canadian health care, including shortages of just about EVERYTHING, rising costs, low doctor morale, etc.
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I dunno, MacLeans seems to be slightly sensationalistic, and VERY centric, sometimes even forgetting that anything west of Manitoba and anything east of Quebec exists.
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First, was that report written by the 'ultra right conservativetightarse group' by any chance? A report can say anything, depending on what logic you use. I think Rush wrote something that basically stated that there was no problem with the environment, and that god wanted us to cut down trees.
There's no evidence of any far-reaching man-made problem with the environment. As for trees, the quote you're probably looking for is, "The only thing beautiful about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down." Not necessarily a sentiment I agree with.
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"There's no evidence of any far-reaching man-made problem with the environment."
I am glad I did read that, as throughout during the day, I was having quite a difficult dispersing the waste fluids from my body. Thankfully, I laughed so hard at this, I pissed all down my leg. My condondondrum is solved.
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As I said Omega, you have a general fault (imho) of failing to answer the why of your grand pronouncements to any degree of satisfaction when questioned.
And since you're generally given over to extreme statments, that is a fault (again imho).
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What, you want me to come up with every theory ever proposed that claims there are such problems, and debunk every single one of them? Well, I'm not going to do that. I'm not about to do your research for you. You want an answer to a specific claim, though, and I'll oblidge.
I stated that there is no evidence of something. That, by definition, is not a statement that can be proven. It's a universal negative. I was stating that an unproven claim is false. The ball's not in my court.
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That makes no logical sense. It is therefore illogical. Illogic is not a valid debating tactic.
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Omega, you've got balls alright. Anyone who seems to be as a vocal (and generally wrong imo) on every issue as you are has too. Do you have a court to play with them on?
And no Captain Hyperbole, I think that debunking every theory would be too much, even for you. As I said, you have a problem of answering the why behind your extreme statements. And that is a general fault I find with most of your arguments.
A specific example and one related to the argument in question is on the first page of this thread. I asked a series of questions about one of your sweeping generalizations and you failed to answer. Now, if this were about winning an losing as you seem to think it is, then by your silence, I win because you can't back up what you say.
Since good dicsussion isn't about winning and losing, then I don't really care (the above is to make a point) and your "look over there" misdirection of saying "...not about to do your research..."** is made out of whole cloth because you need to defend the material you write. In general you do not. Rather seeking to imploy any number of diversions to seek your goal...whatever that may be.
**The mere thought of you doing my research lowers my iq and the quality of anything I would write.
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Does anyone else realize that, with the way Omega makes such extreme statements, and skirts the "why" question, he'll probably end up being elected president of the US someday?
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