Animal: Funny thing is that if I were to think anyone in this board is a fascist, it would be miko. I would gladly hear where my free-market minimum government intervention views coincide with any of the fascist views.
I have good reasons to claim that any person who insists that there are some considerations for the "public good" and "fairness" beyong those freely expressed by the said public by spending their money is repeating the communist/marxist dogma - whether knowingly or not.
Of course soldiers and some few other occupations are excluded from such mercantile calculation of "worth" but those are not engaged in free market activities.
Frogman's statement that a guy who drove a car in a circle to the satisfaction of the expressed wishes of the paying public is somehow less "deserving" than his ideal of what a person should do is pure marxism. Cool avatar, though.
Furious: You are just arguing to argue. Damn, all that time I thought I was performing a surgery...
Anyway, millions of people find what Dale was doing worthy of their time and money. Frogm4n states that what he did was just worthless driving of a car in circles. Is there really an argument who is mistaken here?
Mini D: Didn't need that reply miko. That was simply sarcasm directed at the creator of this thread. In this case I civilly appologise. It did seem to me like you've misinterpreted his statement as a call for government/judicial intervention. No sarcasm smiley in evidence... Sorry.
eskimo2: So people who don't make a great contribution to society don't count for much? Better question to ask would be who is entitled to judge the contribution to the society than the customers demanding/purchasing that "contribution" and why would it ever matter beyong "Look at me, I am more virtuous that Dale Earnhardt"?