RegularGuy

The Sun Dance with self-mortification sounds like splendid fun. :grimace:

A happy day for me when someone sees things the way I do. :wink:

To my point, Ecclesiastes describes life in a city-state as far as I know and not life in a tribe or clan like the plains Native Americans.

Sounds like a philosopher to me. :wink:

Thank you for reminding me of what I once gained through prayer. :smile:

I was thinking of the plains Native Americans as an example. Hunter-gatherers undoubtedly settled some disputes through violence, though.

IOW, without civilization there would be no philosophers.

I think both of you missed my point entirely. My point was that before there were modern cities, when people were living in small tribes and everyone ...

Thanks, guys.

Of course it is. This is a philosophy discussion. We’re discussing theory.

I would have one house of Congress with representatives based on equal districts of population with four year terms. Then actual people would be repre...

That was then (1787). This is 2019. If you had read my comments in this thread, then you’d know where I stand. I’m not saying our forefathers got ever...

Exactly! You can’t even bring up anything in politics with conservatives without them invoking the founding fathers, as if conservatives know what the...

I disagree with the deifying of men who owned slaves and oppressed women.

I think we need a real world example of how anarcho-libertarianism would work. How would it deal with hate speech, radicalization on the Internet, lea...

This is religious bullshit. Pardon my French, and God bless you. I don’t agree with what you’ve said, but I will defend to the death of me your right ...

That’s akin to holocaust denial, like denying that the founding fathers were slave holders. You don’t have to buy it. It’s a fact.

Ah, yes. The bane of common law.

True that the politicians do this. Also true that I wish for a better system despite politicians’ collective hypocrisy.

Anyway, since we’re not going to agree on basic matters of fact, I don’t see the point of continuing this discussion. I wish you well in the coming ye...

This is unverifiable, and you cannot compare the collapse of 08-09 to 91-92 or 2001.

Not true. He got elected because there was a recession. The deregulation of the banking sector in 2000 was the Republican Congress’s legislation that ...

Capitalism magazine? And they’re not biased? They don’t have an axe to grind?

Keynesian economics worked to pull us out of a recession in 2009, and you’re probably not old enough to remember the 90s. The economy was doing great ...

Anyway, automation and AI are going to remove millions of jobs in the next ten years. Then big government in the form of handouts will sound pretty go...

I agree with this, but I disagree on tax policy.

Both Clinton and Obama were supply siders, so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

The top tax bracket (yearly income over $1 million starting at the millionth and first dollar should be 60%. The working poor should have no taxes and...

If we kept cutting taxes every time we wanted to “stimulate the economy” (a bubble), we’d eventually end up with no taxes. Then we’d end up with no go...

Reagan at least doubled the national debt with his tax cuts, and the debt was virtually nonexistent until he came along. We have had supply side econo...

But Supply Side economics has led to $20 trillion in debt.

I didn’t give my views on the free speech vs. surveillance and intervention debate. I think we need to have that debate as a society, though. I also h...

I agree.

For example, a woman’s right to choose what she does with her body implies small government, while anti-abortion advocates want government in uteruses...

My point is that I don’t think you can say that you’re for or against big government without looking at specific issues.

No, I am not daft. The southern plantation states had a lot of slaves which counted as 3/5 of a person each (another bone thrown to the South). Are yo...

For example, the issue of free speech and radicalization on the Internet. Should there be more government or less government when it comes to Neo-Nazi...

I think we should discuss what we mean by “big government” and “small government” as well. Both Republicans and Democrats in the US are for big govern...

That’s because the southern plantation states had a smaller population than the more urban northern states. The electoral college was a bone thrown to...

My views on state governments being redundant are not strongly held. I could go either way.

Now, Marchesk, Noah, and @"StreetlightX" (if he were American) need to author new Federalist papers. :grin:

Yes, this would inevitably lead to more political parties, I think, and so the party heads would be President. Or, the President need not be the head ...

This makes sense to me. Great idea!

Yes.

Exactly. I’m glad we arrived at the same conclusion. The electoral college and gerrymandering practices where politicians pick their voters are also u...

@"StreetlightX" used the term “unrepresentative”, whereas I used the term “undemocratic”. “Unrepresentative” is a better term and more in line with wh...

I have a personal preference for leadership only because ordinary people don’t have the time to research domestic and foreign policy. Representative g...

Good theory acknowledges history in so far as knowing the mistakes of the past.

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanl...

I’m dead serious. I also have my grandfather’s burial flag, a picture of my grandpa when he was a sailor, and a picture of my nephew in his Marines un...