Go check this video out, it'll show you our values. Be afraid, you might just end up agreeing with them. http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf
Well I guess that I like "property" as much as the next guy...but I don't think that I saw anything about leaving this place a little better then the way you found it, or about maybe helping others in need...only a lot of talk about "self"...all in a silly video designed to make thise who really ain't got a lot somehow feel good about the few who do... The video did not talk about "values"...it talked about me, mine, and mine...period. Like I said, I'm into property, make no mistake...but don't try to call my greed values...
What's the problem?? That pretty much describes how I think about things. I always encourage people to set goals, and I don't know anybody that won't defend their property in some way shape or form. That is a pretty clear little philosophical argument, not that I'm a philosopher at all, or can STAND most of them, but the guys that framed the (since unframed!) constitution used arguments like those.
madison, i will proceed with good will and accepting your statements as your true feelings--if not---nothing i can do about it. property rights are part of the underpinnings of the philosophy of individual liberty upon which the USA is founded. this is seriously basic material, i am saddened that it is not common knowledge. your namesake james madison would be turning over in his grave surfer