Quote Originally Posted by mfqr
You're obviously closed-minded if you won't even look at it, to possibly open yourself to new ideas.
No, I'm quite open minded, yet fairly set in my ways, if that makes sense. I'm a person who believes that anything is possible, so it'd be hard to make a case against me that I'm not open minded.

I think our disagreement here is about who's saying I should be open minded. You're saying the makers are saying to draw your own conclusions, which I think is awesome. The thread starter, however, was saying that you should be at least somewhat open minded, almost as a prerequisite to watching the movie. To me, that's saying that they've got an odd idea.

To me, a "far out there" idea is one that's stupid and has no logic or reason to it. The IRS thing, I agree that Americans, according to the law as it stands today, don't have to pay income tax. In fact, I'd go as far to say that no one in the world should rightfully be obligated to pay income tax. People aren't just giving you money, it's an even exchange.

As an example, if we make a contract that I'll mow your lawn for 100 bucks (a nice round number). Let's also assume that I've made enough money in the year to be taxable (I'm not sure if there's a minimum tax bracket there), and let's also assume that I'll be taxed 10% of my wages.

Why is it that I only get 90 dollars for what we've both agreed is 100 dollars worth of work? Why is it the person who receives money is the person being taxed? Both parties benefit, not just the person who gets the money. It's not like you have to mow a part of the government's lawn because someone mowed yours, so it makes no sense to give the government money just because you received some from your labour.

So yeah, I consider myself open minded, I just don't like when open mindedness is a prerequisite.