I dislike both Obama and Romney as presidential candidates. I
love the short-lived science fiction series, “Firefly.” But Joss Whedon
— the creator of that show, one of my all-time favorites — is an idiot
in this political video. Apparently, to him, “compassion” (“car[ing]
about each other”) — whether in the form of health care, education,
social services, or any other area of life — consists of being a bully
and a thief. Worse, he is a cowardly bully and thief, at that, hiding
behind the government to obscure his goal of stealing my money, my
life, and my property. He seeks to use the government to force me to do
what he wants and to stop me
from doing what I want. How
arrogant. How disgusting.
Like most who refuse to use persuasion to accomplish their ends, who
refuse to respect my personal autonomy, who refuse to acknowledge my
right to live my life the way I want, who deny I own my life, own my
property, own my self, Whedon prefers to enforce his will at the point
of a gun. But he is too cowardly to wield the gun himself. He has said
he “dislikes” guns. But he has no qualms about wanting the government
and its guns to do what he
does not have the guts to do himself. I would like to see him show up
at my doorstep and try to take my money himself. He would not fare very
well.
But as I said, he’s too much of a coward to deal with me face-to-face
and to declare that he has a
right to my life; to proclaim that he
has a right to rob me and decide how to spend the money that I earned
with my life, my time, my effort; to admit that he is a petty thug and would-be
dictator who possesses a specious “right” to be generous with other
people’s lives. Anyone who wants the government to take my money
without my permission or to have the government force me to act as that
person wants rather than according to my own decisions is out to control me and and my
material possessions.
But Whedon can stand proudly with all the other statists and
collectivists of every stripe, knowing that — like them — he is too
delusional, too much of a sanctimonious coward, to admit his immorality
in trying to rob his peaceful fellow citizens by proxy, forcing
everyone else to fund what he
thinks is important. He can give away his own millions, if he wants.
But he has zero right to a cent of my money or to a second of my life.
Unlike him, I am not a slave and have no desire to be a slaver. I have
no itch to coerce other people to do what they would not do voluntarily
and in mutual agreement with their fellow citizens.
In this video, Joss Whedon reveals himself as the closet tyrant, the
bully, the cur he is deep in his heart.
