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I suppose a free country would be ruled by the majority. Since all countries are ruled by tiny minorities and the mugs have noticed this without drawi...

Surely the word 'created' sets us off on false assumptions. Things happen, perhaps.

I've spent a lot of time encouraging people to talk themselves out of suicide. If the alternative is as awful as it sometimes seems, people don't need...

All I know about IQ is that all the RAF could ever find to say about me was that I was extremely intelligent (it's doubtless gone off since I took the...

I don't really think there is much 'self' to own, just various shifting mental states with a shared name. I've never fully understood the concept 'mor...

Just the end of capitalism and the beginning of civilisation. About time.

Capitalism is a system by which the vast majority are defrauded of much of the value of their labour in order to transfer it to a few very rich crooks...

It inevitably uses racism, however, as it uses every other thing that divides the mugs.

Racism, like so much of capitalist ideology, depends on antiquated thinking.. There is only one 'race' of humans nowadays, jokingly called Homo Sapien...

'You don't tell children there's no Father Christmas' - my Mother on religion.

Bitter Crank - I think you put the climate change question very clearly. I think that even if there were a still a chance of remedial measures working...

I like your novel-bit, but I'd see such an opinion as something that reflects back on the character and what we are to make of her(?) . She can't mean...

I'd give humanity three hundred years tops. I think they'll probably give up education, in the circumstances.

'Rights' are, surely, what you are strong enough to get, so yes, we should all have the right to basic necessities. Are we strong enough to overcome t...

It would seem to me that, in practice, only people looking for a fight would react to either, which are such silly generalisations as to produce no mo...

Thanks ArguingWAristotleTiff.

Thanks for putting me right about Knox, Edmund. I didn't do badly as a creative imitator thought, fair play!

Sorry about spelling and punctuation above - as a trained typist and an old English teacher I sufferwith this keyboard!

All this reminds me of the old (Oxford?) rhyme, which I recreate from momory: 'There was a young man who said, 'God, Don't you find it exceedingly odd...

This has all been very interesting, but I wonder if anyone could tell me just why anyone should want to live forever, taking up all that room and gett...

'You can take your hate for Zionists elsewhere. Address the general principle under discussion or don't post. ' Yes, Master! At once, Master!

I am at a loss to understand your first sentence. The dominant world power, the USA, and its opponent, the USSR, set up 'Israel' to avoid having many ...

Where did anyone ever get the right to property in anything? Still, we prosecute people for theft, and the Zionists are prime candidates. Even assumin...

If you want to make any absolute comparisons between people, surely, you have first to decide what people are FOR. In the long run, what is there to b...

The tribes had been introduced only a generation or so before, and were deliberately spread over all Athens, to avoid special interest groups developi...

What gives me to - perhaps totally unphilosophically - to doubt Socrates is that he wouldn't take payment from his rich pupils to help his poor family...