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Having trouble reading again I see. I'm talking about experience and knowledge of "black emancipation", "spoken word" and the "English language". Rijn...

This also reminded me of Kant as you later mentioned. Another thing your commentary to "a good man is a bad man's teacher" reminded me of was the lega...

So marrying into royalty makes you fair game? I don't agree. It also comes with assumptions like Meghan hasn't married out of love and it was a ration...

I'm so French I was thankful for the English subtitles. I used to speak decent French and Spanish but I don't practise enough. :sad: Speaking of Frenc...

Yup. I try not to buy Chinese stuff since a few months into the Hong Kong protests. It's almost impossible so I go second best where I can and buy sec...

I would think the purpose is no group gets too little and we'd probably vote for inclusivity too based on what I perceive as the public conscious of t...

Of course this isn't possible. That some people let themselves be guided by some moral principles when hiring, still doesn't lead to a moral and just ...

Really? I thought he brought it down to earth quite well. You're one of the negotiators at a table, each of them represent a group of people (age grou...

That's also, in my view, the main ethical discussion. What's the role of government? I'm partial to John Rawls approach with the veil of ignorance and...

For a moral right to exist to pre-tax income, the moral worth of the person and the services ought to be valued and thereby lead to a just and fair di...

This reply doesn't address what I raised. If you have no moral right to those earnings, there's no plunder or confiscation going on.

Just this... https://youtu.be/LFmpfEFjdFM

Nah, reducing humanity to mindless baby makers seems about accurate. All the rest is just a means to that end. :razz:

I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly here. Who is "they"? My main point is there is neither a moral nor legal right to pre-tax income. That do...

There's no underlying moral right to pre-tax income because that would mean people should be paid based on moral worth of their services and their own...

Merged the two discussions.

This discussion was merged into Taxes.

I love how people argue how bad government is for not acting enough when they argue simultaneously that governments shouldn't do anything. If you want...

At the very least it's a dick move. Within our existing legal framework, this quite clearly would constitute theft. It doesn't answer whether taxation...

@"180 Proof" Georgian Republicans are sore losers. Let's have an extra helping of voter suppression now that the law we instituted in 2005 no longer w...

For taxation to be theft, there must be a right to pre-tax income. Legally, this is clearly not the case. A moral right to pre-tax can only be said to...

Oh, I suspect many of these people consider themselves self sufficient and self reliant and believe they will be entirely unaffected by such a change ...

The problem with the assumption that tax is theft is that there's either a moral or legal right to pre-tax income. There isn't. The legal argument is ...

except that it's wrong on several counts. For starters, it ignores the circulation of money. The ease of exchange and number of transaction have a lot...

Some issues here. 1. We have black, female, bilingual, spoken word artists familiar with black emancipation in the US in the Netherlands, hell, we hav...

Good for you. Enjoy it. My best friend's mother passed away, he couldn't be there for her because of COVID and due to curfew I can't be there for him ...

But I've not said this. The exercise I was hoping to go through is the recognition that all societies are far more complex than what you'd like to pai...

Ask yourself what's so appealing about this that it attracts white supremacists in droves? I suggest that this was the excuse and the racists heard th...

I don't think the majority thinks this way but enough do, that it's a political consideration. Especially if you're on the Conservative side of the sp...

Let me ask this differently. What distinguishes a non-nomadic tribe from a State? Or a reclusive family staking out a claim of land? An individual doi...

It's important for me to understand what you mean since you make grand statements which aren't at all clear. So if these ancient civilisations fall wi...

The point being that to apply the word "state" to these ancient governments, when you clearly meant it in the modern sense, is wrong because they are ...

The "state" is a 15th century concept.

Recalled my earlier prediction:

Athens was a polis. Equating that with a city state is false on several levels, which you'd know, if you knew your history.

I wasn't aware the US was at war with Syria.

That doesn't speak well for bitcoin at all. Despite the huge system surrounding it, and the multitude of use cases supported by the existing system, V...

Athens had a democratic form of government. Athens wasn't a state. The claim order is created through fear is just... silly. In fact, fear creates ins...

Oh, I know the difference between proof of stake and proof of work. Ethereum, Algorand and Primecoin aren't bitcoins though. I was only referencing bi...

It's indeed not true for every cryptocurrency but I'm not familiar with any fork of BTC that has resolved the energy drain issue.

For everyone thinking how cool it has been making a quick buck out of bitcoin, bitcoin is now using more electricity than the entire Netherlands combi...

See, I'd believe that if your point had been that he had the wrong data set but your argument was the source was biased. So wriggle on little worm.

Now you're just being a disagreeable. There was a discussion about the facts Michael used and you tried to waylay it with a subcategory of crimes, whi...

This is a specific sub category of crimes so a different dataset. Edit: @"Michael" this is interesting which suggests Democrats are more corrupt and b...

Wtf are "misinformed" votes? Biden got more votes than Hillary. Period.

It's kind of funny how some people miss the forest for the trees. Two independent law enforcement sources claimed Sicknick was hit in the head with a ...

For "bring the calvary" to be a thing, you would expect some use. The only use we've seen is when people meant cavalry. It's not a thing among right w...

What I find underwhelming about the whole process is that even when a majority has already voted the impeachment was constitutional this is still goin...

with regards to the tweet, did or did she not tweet what she tweeted? The little blue verification badge doesn't change content. But yes, let's get hu...

Some proof of those claims would be nice.