This book changed my lifeThe Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.
What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?
Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable
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chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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Enzyme and Chickenlady are rightGovernments do provide a service. A democracy is a means of ensuring that enough people with enough concerns will overrule the government on an issue.
If you feel that strongly, join a pressure group and make sure your MP knows about it. With enough members a pressure group may even evolve into a political party - which is exactly how the Labour Party came into existence.
Take ID cards.
Now, the cost to the taxpayer is going to be £5bn, that personally I'd rather see going to Higher Education, not to mention the moral arguements about privacy, for which I see as a fundamental right for anyone.
Now, I like roads. I like them very much. I also like the Healh Service which provides me with my prescriptions. I also like railways, the Police, the people to take my rubbish, the BBC, the armed forces and I feel very strongly that the disabled are entitled to a degree of dignity, not poverty.
To stick out my lower lip and refuse to pay my taxes smacks of petulance of the most irksome kind. That would be bludging from a system I refuse to contribute to, which frankly offends my moral sensibilities as much as ID Cards do.
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