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January 20th, 2013, 1:23 pm
Clearly the Nazis weren't getting enough Ketchup.
December 31st, 2012, 2:24 pm
I'm not convinced that it's the guns that are the problem. I think it's Americans and American culture that are the problem. As an citizen of the US I am embarrassed to live in a country which has such an institutionalized contempt for the weak and the dependent. We express concern for the welfare o...
November 30th, 2012, 12:28 pm
(quote not shown) I only made that point to show that the extreme can fit into the larger theme referenced in the above captioned video. The agenda of people like Gingrich, Liebermann, Issa, Bolton, Bush, Feith, Wolfowitz, Kissinger, and co support is more subtle and nuanced than that of Hitler and ...
November 27th, 2012, 10:27 pm
(quote not shown) Okay, Goebbels was a superb psychologist but used his gifts in service of the Nazi agenda. Additionally, his actions could be called quite good by a party member with 3 children in the Hitler-jugend. I don't think I agree with the idea that either Goebbels or the torturer is behavi...
November 23rd, 2012, 1:20 pm
I think Mr. Haidt is missing the question of [how is it acceptable to manipulate the law so as to preserve the ability of the most ambitions to exploit the less powerful. . . to the point where the interests of the less powerful are clearly being compromised?]. . . To my mind the issue is being misf...
November 15th, 2012, 9:43 pm
We used to have a saying - "The Moral Majority is neither."
August 7th, 2012, 8:28 pm
(quote not shown) A pro "wants" to have sex with you for the $ but if you're cool, reasonably attractive and clean with a modicum of "interesting" or "engaging" without being patronizing and perhaps she'll "like" you which can often happen between people no ma...
July 31st, 2012, 7:33 pm
(quote not shown) ummmmm. . . FEMA? The Armed services? Doesn't the concept of common defense include preserving safety. . . and you should look to a whole passel of post 911 gobbledy-gook about preemptive defense necessary to preserve "safety". . . Plus, you haven't even begun to address ...
July 29th, 2012, 11:16 am
Maldon, of course you are aware that GB has less than 1/4 the population of the US. . . right? Also, you need to consider that a naturalist view of "rights" claims they're a priori. Examination of this idea shows that this is really a faith based idea because neither you or anyone else is ...
July 22nd, 2012, 11:06 am
(quote not shown) . . . extra constitutional. . . dude, is [me sitting in front of my computer waving my arms around] extra constitutional because it's not specifically enumerated? The constitution posits general classes of freedoms or privileges. Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure would b...
July 22nd, 2012, 8:02 am
Maldon - you pay your taxes. Part of this money is always going to be spent on things certain people don't agree with. That doesn't make it stealing from the citnzenry. I've heard this old saw so many times. . . "taxes are stealing from people. . . blah. . . blah. . . Society is a collective of...
July 21st, 2012, 1:32 pm
(quote not shown) yes, and people who can pay for insurance in order to get care and follow up are less likely to die as a result of the underlying condition. Is there anything real you wish to say here or are you just mincing words? (quote not shown) again, with the semantics. (quote not shown) aga...
July 20th, 2012, 6:40 pm
Particulars are what we experience. Who among us has experienced a predetermined or a generic generality. I compose a song. You hear it several times, each time different. I've practiced it a bunch. I suppose there's an ideal or a goal I'm aiming for when I practice and perform it and perhaps I'm th...
July 17th, 2012, 6:23 pm
All of "my dogs" are dogs. The particular belongs to the generic universal. Not all dogs are my dogs. It's theoretically possible that all dogs could be my dogs but whether or not I succeed in making it so isn't verifiable. I don't even know that I could accomplish it in my lifetime. I can...
July 5th, 2012, 7:27 pm
I think politics reflects our philosophy and so discussing it in a philosophy forum is appropriate