The Flounder Thread

The_Jed wrote:

This is a thing?

and its later sibling......

mndsm wrote:

The_Jed wrote:

This is a thing?

I'm thinking it's the title of a Bollywood movie.

Indians you say?

COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!

yamaha wrote: COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/

Common Sense.... Thomas Paine.

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence;

Philadelphia, February 14, 1776