Of course, and governments do that sort of thing. There is no law of nature - again - that prevents governments from being mafias. What you going to d...
My mate Jesus had something to say about that. Not that either of us is a huge fan of government for it's own sake, and here in the UK there is a part...
I don't grant it at all. If you happen to be a Jew fleeing Nazi Germany, or some other flavour of refugee, you are physically desperate and helpless a...
It should be otherwise because it is unfair. It encourages an economy of desperation. As long as there are desperate people, starvation wages will be ...
Well if she works ten times as hard as the average employee, she deserves ten times the reward, minus whatever percentage we need to take off to cover...
I'm all for market forces to operate here. If there is a terrible shortage of willing business people, then their value is increased. But there is a g...
That is Fascism, I think you would have to say; I'm not talking about something that could possibly happen somewhere, but what is happening all the ti...
Again, this is the image that is projected. But starving entrepreneurs who have lost everything,throwing themselves out of their high rise offices, ar...
'The market' conjures an image of some version of the miner selling ore to the blacksmith, who sells tools to the farmer, who sells food them both, an...
Understatement of the year. Without mutuality, only Ray Mears would survive, and he would only outlast the rest of us by a week before dying of lack o...
For such affairs, a dog is more convenient than a philosopher. A dog has more sense than to wonder if it possibly knows enough to get where it's going...
You'd have to know you weren't going to have a heart attack, and that the mad axeman wasn't creeping up behind you, and that you weren't going to move...
You Have the Right to Remain Silent, But Anything You Don’t Say May Be Used Against You. In my case, I don't say a lot about God, and it gets used aga...
Yes, we are on the same side. The suggestion that God designs every snowflake, and when he takes a break amorphous masses result is rather peculiar. B...
Try the argument from disorder, then. If there is disorder, there is a disorderer. There is disorder. Therefore there is a disorderer. Or even better:...
My first thought was - clearly no one lives here (because living is a messy business). Creation is clearly a messy business, and God is not so neuroti...
... is equivalent to "We all exist in the mind of God." Because either these logical computers 'really' exist as simulations inside themselves, or the...
The alliance with the DUP if it happens, would spell the end of power-sharing in N Ireland, already in abeyance, and quite possibly the resumption of ...
While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society’s pliers Cares not to come up any higher But ...
I think you are right, but it is not the ignorant men that would put Him there, though they would be induced to cheer, it is the intelligent men - the...
Well of course, no one is going to be transformed just by reading my posts. But if your neighbour sees that you don't beat your sons, and that they li...
Totally agree. In the sense that politics and institutions are manifestations of the human mind. But not this. We are greedy, but we don't have to be....
No, it doesn't. It's more like the 0 and 1 of computing. Evil is if anything represented by trying to compute with only ones and no zeros, but it is r...
Indeed, but we got them from the Arabs. But algebra too, why not. They shouldn't have trusted us primitives with such things, they've only themselves ...
I largely agree with this, and when you include the likes of Damon Smith and Dylann Roof in the picture, the whole 'Islamic extremism' thing starts to...
If I am a trendy lefty, I would like to dissociate myself completely from any such vile nonsense. Such comments as you quote serve only to maintain th...
Yeah, right. Like it's not the pushers and drugs cartels that's the problem, it's the silly users. It's not as if we've been drawing arbitrary borders...
When we bomb them, it's called liberation, respect for human rights, and when they bomb us it's terrorism. When we sell arms there it's trade, when th...
Take a look at 3. (from dictionary .com) To take their example, one might owe one's fame to good fortune, but one does not have either the obligation ...
Seems pretty uncontroversial to me to say that we owe our lives to the blind watchmaker, or Nature, or God, or chance, or history, or whatever as long...
I'll put it somewhat differently. Those who don't vote will tend to be middle of the road politically; extremists always vote. Therefore, voter apathy...
No, the whole point is that the majority will be average only if everyone votes, but if the best of us decide it is futile and don't vote, then it wil...
If rational intelligent informed people convince themselves that voting is futile, then elections will be decided by the stupid, the ignorant and the ...
Of course it isn't entirely. But if you are a woman in Syria, you are going to find business rather more difficult than if you are a white male in a w...
Yes, I've done that too, as a landscape gardener, and as a vegetarian grocer. I've also worked without pay for an education charity, and as a communit...
Your vote would only be decisive if the Conservatives ended up winning by 1 vote. And even then it would be no more decisive than any of the thousands...
On the one hand, I'm too busy making shift for myself, and on the other, to work for another is to be dependent on them - hence the term 'wage slave'....
There's a thread in this if I could find the right angle; we are not that far apart, I suspect. But on weakness and dependency, the predator, prey rel...
Well the tories would like to encourage the greens as a way of splitting the left-wing vote. It is when the greens start to steal tory votes that they...
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