Reply #70: STARTREK NEXT GENERATION [View All]

[SoCalifer]

This thread brings up an interesting thought in my mind. It curiously brings out a memory in me from watching StarTrek Next Generation.

If you are a Trek fan you might remember the episode where the Enterprise runs into a crashed Borg ship which had three Borg on board, of which only one was still alive.

The Enterprise crew bring this sworn enemy back with them on board the Enterprise and restore his health. They discuss plans on how they can use him to destroy all the rest of the Borg by inflecting him with a virus and allowing him to inflect all the rest of the Borg. But then they discover that by having brought this Borg on board the Enterprise, this Borg had changed because of his exposure to the Enterprise crew, and that this change could/would have a profound effect on the thinking of all the rest of the Borg, once they allowed this Borg to return to his kind.

Anyway, if you haven't got my point yet, it is this: Yes we all here know that our line of thinking is vastly more correct than the short sighted freepers. But this can be an opportunity to effect some change in the minds of freepers. Even if its just a small change, it could be a step in the right direction in them realizing the error of their thinking and how it affects them.

And yes, the thought of doing anything with a freeper doesn't appeal to me either. But I would like to think that we are the more mature crowd, and the crowd smart enough to realize that this could provide an opportunity to plant a seed into the minds of freepers that just may make some of them see the light that Republicans are NOT on your side if you work for a living.

And the worst that could happen? Is simply nothing... No harm, no foul