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Dreadlock Holiday?

I meant I'm still not set up with Bitstamp unfortunately. The thing I'm trying to set up myself might utilise blockchain technology (but not necessari...

I read the article but I don't see how it relates to the environmental issues I mentioned, which I think are of a different type than the ones discuss...

My condolences. Breaks the heart every time.

the theme song for Trailer Park Boys?

another benefit from being liberal, we kick them out of the nest at 18 and if they fly they fly, if not, so what?

great story. And congrats with starting on your wel deserved rest from raising him now that he's an adult.

Marx was a non - believer and in this case he referred to religion as providing pleasant illusions just like opium (and sapping strength to fight oppr...

I haven't read pinker although I seem to recall something about not eating meat but might be confusing him. Anyway, I'm optimistic science and enginee...

NRA : How many law-abiding gun owners would worry about background checks and registration? I mean really... The inherent falsehood of such statements...

*sits back with popcorn*

Still not set up. Also, anybody else read about the Tether token and probable swindle involved?

:rofl:

the point of establishing that blacks are stupid is to inform the intelligent white man not to procreate with blacks. Or something like that. I really...

I'm grateful for the fact I live in the Netherlands as opposed to almost every other country in the world. We could do with a bit more sun and warmer ...

Real mature and devoid of an argument again.

Well, I can only lead a donkey to water I can't make him drink.

I read a lot of weaseling and half an argument in most of your posts. Your position is different than Heller's as stated in later posts, so you did ch...

In this case, don't troll. EDIT: errr... that was honest advice not accusing you of trolling.

Ok, so you don't understand the Heller case which you said you agreed with? Heller invokes the right to bear arms as necessary in order to exercise th...

To me the question whether something is a democracy or not or to what extent is the wrong question. Democracy in and off itself is not and should not ...

I'm glad it got deleted for the trolling it was, notwithstanding the patient efforts of sane posters.

I thought that was the smell?

I can catch bullets with my bare teeth. Also, the air pressure generated by my shadow boxing has been known to knock out people 20 feet away.

You changed your position. Originally you claimed the right to self defence (self protection above) underlies protection from government tyranny and t...

That doesn't really answer my question but tells me about laws in your country. Let's say you're 15, driving your bicycle down the road and you don't ...

I'll reiterate then again as you don't seem to understand the right to self defense: the right of self defense does not concern itself with which inst...

Where have you set out your argument that the right to self-defence is a argument in favour of the right to own guns? Please point it out if I'm not r...

Is it a good rule to have debt hanging over children aged 15-18 for stupid mistakes? You mustn't forget that even if these children are uninsured, the...

Always funny to be told I'm talking nonsense by someone who's only just started googling on Aristotle's Ethics and doesn't know how that connects to h...

Thanks for fixing that.

Ok, great, so now you're going to pretend you're clueless? Just because a term hasn't been used before, doesn't mean people didn't talk about it befor...

Take it up with Aristotle. Before you do so, I propose you read it first before jumping the gun with useless one-liners.

Know your fallacies; stating a book is clearly racist isn't an ad hominem or poisoning the well. If you would make a racist comment and I'd say "that'...

On an entirely unrelated note (again), the Dutch laws don't care for the rationality of the child. Up to and including 13 years of age and with respec...

If we're going to count like that, I'd pretty much be a dictator. I'm all for it.

Non sequitur. You argued that self-defence is an argument for the right to have guns and this is simply false. I said, all the right to self-defence s...

Your suggestion that guns are necessary for any definition of force is silly beyond belief and demonstrates your apparent ideological investment in a ...

I answered this several posts before. Self-defence merely says you may answer force with force and it won't be unlawful (within reasonable bounds). Th...

Book 5 of Aristotles Ethics. Start there. Social justice is a subspecies of justice, e.g. the proper and proportionate distribution of common assets. ...

Educate yourself. History of positive and negative liberty. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/ On inequality: https://www.i...

Thank you for your comments BC. I agree that the risk you highlight is very real. In a clear historic perspective and clarifying the personal effects ...

Nope. I had the same thing.

You could and then be confronted with the fact you have to pay taxes and don't get to vote for quite some time.

I've never understood this as to apply to current day situations in what appear to be Western societies (the thrust of this thread). In the context of...

Uhmmm... About men growing up?

would you be interested in a debate with Peterson?

welcome to the club.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/22/trump-proposal-teachers-guns-schools Just. Wow.

Totally. We're not immune unfortunately. It does assume prudence on the majority of criminals. It comes down to statistics and the relevant issues see...