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I get pissed off by: 1. Internet forums 2. Lists 3. Irony 4. Lists 5. Repetition
November 06, 2017 at 17:33
An ironic example, given that Nazi Germany banned Jews specifically from owning guns.
November 06, 2017 at 17:22
What, in addition to the things I listed, does UK law include that bars someone from legally owning a firearm?
November 06, 2017 at 16:58
What, in addition to the things I listed, do you think ought to bar someone from legally owning a firearm?
November 06, 2017 at 16:49
But said right doesn't and ought not apply to just any old schmuck. Convicted felons, the psychologically impaired, and, I would add, the untrained do...
November 06, 2017 at 16:39
Why would you doubt this? Do you have statistics to prove it? Most gun advocates, like the members of the NRA, are very well trained and encourage pro...
November 06, 2017 at 16:28
The killer had a felony on his record and so owned firearms illegally. So how could this shooting have been prevented, except with greater vigilance i...
November 06, 2017 at 16:12
What about those Hawaiians who voted for Trump?
November 06, 2017 at 15:02
When you allow for private industry to a greater extent than it previously existed, then that industry, and thereby the country, can make more money b...
November 05, 2017 at 03:20
So what makes them neoliberals? They did not, so far as I'm aware, use that term to describe themselves.
November 05, 2017 at 02:58
I said earlier that neoliberalism seems to be antithetical to liberalism, so I guess I'm not the only one who sees that.
November 05, 2017 at 02:57
Okay, whatever you say, comrade Agustino. ;)
November 04, 2017 at 22:32
No you won't. This is proven time and time again. Command economies are inefficient and ridden with corruption. Compare Chile to Venezuela today, for ...
November 04, 2017 at 22:30
They were forced to the cities because of collectivization, given shitty housing, and provided propaganda in lieu of education.
November 04, 2017 at 22:27
Don't be silly. Economic markets largely free of government influence allowed for industrialization. I never said they had purely free markets. My poi...
November 04, 2017 at 22:22
What exactly is your economic position? Distributism still? I'm down with that, but it's madness to deny the enormous positive impact of the free mark...
November 04, 2017 at 21:10
Right, but a person duped is not a person forced. China is ruled by a communist party, a party that for several decades has increasingly allowed for a...
November 04, 2017 at 21:02
This assumes that everything the market allows is on a par with rape. That is patently absurd. Okay, so the market sells contraceptives. That leads to...
November 04, 2017 at 20:46
My point was that the market is amoral. It doesn't have to reward the immoral. That's entirely up to the people who interact in the market, buyers and...
November 04, 2017 at 20:35
That's exactly the point I just made. :-|
November 04, 2017 at 20:30
These things are neutral, though. There's no internal logic to them that "makes" them support PC, ID politics, and sexual promiscuity. It depends on t...
November 04, 2017 at 20:17
No, that's not helpful at all. I had in mind thinkers, journalists, politicians, philosophers, etc past and present. How? Think of the SJWs and their ...
November 04, 2017 at 20:11
Again, this is way too broad to characterize any single "movement." There are politically correct identitarian leftists who loathe the free market, co...
November 04, 2017 at 20:06
I'm saying that the word is used by people with a left-leaning bias, which inevitably results in caricatures of the other side when engaging in polemi...
November 04, 2017 at 20:02
What are trying to say? Are you trying to defend the claim by an appeal to intuition here?
November 04, 2017 at 19:54
The word is used almost exclusively by left wing journalists and Marxist economists. As such, it carries with it the danger of being a strawman. In fa...
November 03, 2017 at 23:25
As a definition, that is so vague as to be meaningless. Also, I don't care whether you can identify someone else as a neoliberal. There's plenty of th...
November 03, 2017 at 23:09
I think "neoliberalism" is a term almost devoid of meaning, as I've never seen anyone positively identify as a neoliberal, and it seems to be used mos...
November 03, 2017 at 22:59
Why is it "greater" to know, love, and be powerful, than not? I do. But that doesn't mean I have to accept, or in this case, will understand, the idea...
November 03, 2017 at 17:22
I think you're confused and in need of more research, to be honest.
October 31, 2017 at 22:24
Yeah, very much so.
October 31, 2017 at 18:23
Is TGW's ghost haunting you? I kind of agree, too. 8-)
October 31, 2017 at 18:13
What might you suggest to make "that than which no greater can be conceived" meaningful and coherent?
October 30, 2017 at 23:31
Then, if I don't conceive of any such being, your argument doesn't get off the ground. Nothing comes to mind when I hear this definition.
October 30, 2017 at 16:40
Euthyphro would like a word with you. And I notice you failed to provide definitions. What, or who, is God? What are objective moral values? What is e...
October 30, 2017 at 15:14
What, not a fan of Skelton?
October 29, 2017 at 23:09
As could be argued your posts in this thread are, given its hitherto settled nature.
October 29, 2017 at 23:03
Well, I'm not in favor of gender quotas either, so this doesn't concern me.
October 29, 2017 at 23:00
It's actually funny that the Marxism-friendly professors sit cozily with tenure while not giving a damn about the condition of graduate students, adju...
October 29, 2017 at 17:49
No, why?
October 29, 2017 at 17:40
Mae govannen.
October 29, 2017 at 16:40
I philosophize on a two-legged stool. It keeps me on my toes.
October 29, 2017 at 16:18
Which is irrelevant to whether said views are true or not. (Didn't watch the video, btw.)
October 28, 2017 at 01:48
Not necessarily. If an employer is always someone other than oneself, then by being self-employed, you don't have an employer. Or your employer would ...
October 27, 2017 at 13:55
I've not read that one, but he's got a strong sense of humor.
October 27, 2017 at 13:47
"An old Tudor English word for a fool. Coined by the 15th-16th century poet John Skelton." Interesting. I've long admired this poem by Skelton: http:/...
October 27, 2017 at 03:06
This is the faulty premise.
October 27, 2017 at 02:53
Which rules out self-employed jobs. I guess you don't have a job, then. Lol. This only reinforces my point. Appeals to luck and a couple of anecdotes ...
October 26, 2017 at 19:57
Specifically, I had read the following about Neoplatonism not long before I saw your comment: From here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neoplatoni...
October 26, 2017 at 19:48
Yes, but that cause need not be isolation. My point is that isolation once depressed is generally a bad combo. Sure, anyone can redefine words to fit ...
October 26, 2017 at 17:18