Let’s give them what they want

[mystery-ak]

December 14, 2025
Let’s give them what they want
By Kevin Finn

The great Thomas Sowell once remarked:“

    It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

That observation is the perfect springboard into a thought experiment: what if decision‑makers were required to live inside the consequences of their own policies? What if the price of being wrong was not paid by distant strangers, but by the very people who made the choice?

In a reflective sense, this idea highlights the gap between theory and reality. Judges, politicians, and voters often make decisions in the abstract, insulated from the ripple effects. They speak of compassion, reform, or progress, but the costs are borne elsewhere. “Let’s give them what they want” becomes a challenge that ties belief to responsibility. If you truly believe in a policy, you should be willing to live with it -- not just in theory, but in practice.

Now imagine this principle applied literally, in a somewhat-satirical fashion.

Judges who release criminals without bail would find their porches transformed into halfway houses. Every ruling comes with a knock at the door: “Good evening, Your Honor. I’m the guy you said was safe to rejoin society. Mind if I crash here?”

Those who strike down deportation orders would discover their guest rooms filled with the very migrants they insisted should stay.

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[DB]

No one should be able to vote for a tax that they themselves won't have to pay.

[GtHawk]

No one should be able to vote for a tax that they themselves won't have to pay.

I have been saying that here in California for decades. First of let me say that what happened to Rob Reiner was atrocious, shouldn’t happen to anyone……….but he was responsible for so much damage with his ‘For the Children’ bullshit, still he didn’t deserve to die fr it or any of his far left views.

[DB]

I have been saying that here in California for decades. First of let me say that what happened to Rob Reiner was atrocious, shouldn’t happen to anyone……….but he was responsible for so much damage with his ‘For the Children’ bullshit, still he didn’t deserve to die fr it or any of his far left views.

Funny how some people demand that you should pay and do things "for the children" when their own children are miserable and toxic. Much like city people who tell the farmers and ranchers what to do and have no actual clue how farming or ranching actually works. And people that have never met a payroll demand how your business should be run because they know best.

Extreme arrogance.

[Smokin Joe]

No one should be able to vote for a tax that they themselves won't have to pay.

No one should be able to vote for a tax that they will benefit from but they themselves won't have to pay.