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Ooh, ooh, let me have a go! This sounds like fun.TennPaGa wrote: For me, a person with "balls" tells people things that they don't want to hear.
Post of the month!! That is truly hilarious and refreshingly balanced overall.Pointedstick wrote:Ooh, ooh, let me have a go! This sounds like fun.TennPaGa wrote: For me, a person with "balls" tells people things that they don't want to hear.
- Property is a social construct.
- God is a comforting fantasy.
- It is both natural and unavoidable that the strong prey upon the weak.
- Beautiful people have measurable social advantages in every sphere of society.
- Gold has an expected real return of zero over the long haul.
- Anarcho-capitalism is unsuitable for most people and human societies as they actually exist today.
- Socialism rewards mediocrity and tends towards stagnation and oppression.
- Global warming is happening.
- Ending the systematic oppression of the mentally ill caused an explosion of mass shootings.
- Most cities are stressful, expensive money pits.
- I should really be working right now.
I liked your last one where you were speaking to yourself!Pointedstick wrote:Ooh, ooh, let me have a go! This sounds like fun.TennPaGa wrote: For me, a person with "balls" tells people things that they don't want to hear.
- Property is a social construct.
- God is a comforting fantasy.
- It is both natural and unavoidable that the strong prey upon the weak.
- Beautiful people have measurable social advantages in every sphere of society.
- Gold has an expected real return of zero over the long haul.
- Anarcho-capitalism is unsuitable for most people and human societies as they actually exist today.
- Socialism rewards mediocrity and tends towards stagnation and oppression.
- Global warming is happening.
- Ending the systematic oppression of the mentally ill caused an explosion of mass shootings.
- Most cities are stressful, expensive money pits.
- I should really be working right now.
TennPaGa wrote: I am curious about these two:
Details?- Most cities are stressful, expensive money pits.
I thought these were supposed to be truths?Mountaineer wrote: The federal government is a smooth running operation that can do most things more effectively and more efficiently than private interprise.
For example, the FAA: http://gizmodo.com/faas-fancy-new-5-bil ... 1639463748
... Mountaineer
I have a (serverly misguided) friend who would emphatically say my last post was truth. Of course, he is a relativist.Libertarian666 wrote:I thought these were supposed to be truths?Mountaineer wrote: The federal government is a smooth running operation that can do most things more effectively and more efficiently than private interprise.
For example, the FAA: http://gizmodo.com/faas-fancy-new-5-bil ... 1639463748
... Mountaineer
That's not true at all.moda0306 wrote: Anyone who is not an anarchist is advocating that the government hold a gun to people's heads to force their will onto them.
Anarcho-capitalists aren't real anarchists.
We could probably debate the latter assertion until we are blue in the face... So we can skip that one for now, but perhaps you care to expand on the first. I'm trying to pay more attention to my abysmal fantasy football team (strongly recommend AGAINST doing fantasy football), but if you care to open a new thread on the moral/functional implications on differences between the fringes of libertarianism, I'd love to comment when I'm not participating in this abbhoration of sports fanmanship.TripleB wrote:That's not true at all.moda0306 wrote: Anyone who is not an anarchist is advocating that the government hold a gun to people's heads to force their will onto them.
Anarcho-capitalists aren't real anarchists.
Jesus Christ.The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, referring to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations.
I do hope the functionally illerate call on Him too. "Man" certainly has not saved them. Sad articles. Yet another example of what happens when we no longer have a culture that appreciates Christian beliefs or at least adheres to Christian ethics (or any other ethical system that puts love of neighbor on a par with love of self).Pointedstick wrote: Okay, this one's gonna be REALLY un-PC. May the liberal establishment have mercy on my soul...
Detroit is being saved by pricing out all the black people.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... ml?hp=pm_1
Alarming statistic from the article: apparently 47 percent of Detroit residents are illiterate. I found this claim so shocking that I had to find supporting evidence, and unfortunately I found it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/0 ... 58307.html
From the report:Jesus Christ.The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, referring to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations.
Of course not, not one! We are all sinners. Only Christ loved us in that manner. But, it certainly is a great guide by which to live your life.moda0306 wrote: Mountaineer,
You think most Christians love their neighbor as much as they love themselves?
Correct, that is not true. Although of course some left-anarchists would like it to be true.TripleB wrote:That's not true at all.moda0306 wrote: Anyone who is not an anarchist is advocating that the government hold a gun to people's heads to force their will onto them.
Anarcho-capitalists aren't real anarchists.