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My second paragraph did not assert that esteeming the concept of "property rights" makes someone a bigot (just like the ACLU is not necessarily...
lol... How did I know you were going to ignore the assertion in the first paragraph that challenges your position and instead rebuff the whole...
Elevating the concept of "property" (and indeed, it is just a man-made concept) and associated "property rights" above the social goal of...
That's dumb as shit. Would it be legitimate for an Afghan to come up and murder you because both you and the soldiers that shot up his brother...
1. The issue here is that popular consensus =/= uniform popularity along the socioeconomic spectrum. For example, welfare is obviously going to be...
I feel like we've hit a brick wall on this one. I feel that if a person can reasonably change something (e.g. not be made to endure terrible...
Ditto for me, but it can be rather grueling when it's one up against many. I will return to this thread with a real response before too long.
That's a good recipe for having the best circle-jerk sessions as possible, not so much for the enactment of the kind of political change you want...
Shade, the point of contention began from the very start of this thread when, instead of people saying, "right on, that's a fucked up violation of...
Good to know you guys value vindictiveness over liberty. Total frauds, anyone who agrees with these sentiments.
QFT :smoke:
Jesus Christ, what the fuck is wrong with you people? If it's not a pissing contest over who's more firmly situated upon Ron Paul's nuts it's...
This is true, and I should have been more specific in my original post: majority consensus needs to occur among the population of citizens that...
I never said what the majority thinks is right is necessarily what is actually right, just that it's obvious what popular opinion is and is not in...
One last comment: you are incorrect here. The existence of an incentive does not necessarily mean the free market will step in to supply that...
Isn't ethical by any reasonable standard? We live in a democracy. Yes, there are barriers to true representation, but if a significant majority of...
"Intended" is an awfully subjective word, don't you think? The programs/services that I described could not be supported by a tax on the purchase...
I think the two biggest failures of libertarianism are the facts that 1) its proponents fail to recognize the consensus on the popularity of many...
I think something that you fail to appreciate when it comes to blacks identifying with blacks, Latinos identifying with Latinos, etc. is that it's...
Fiction: [IMG] For those of you that are unfamiliar with Proust, he is fucking incredible; he can tap into the human condition, the way we...