First, let me say I agree with you on a good many points. In the post where you mention the difficulty of deciding how to rear children the way I...
Until we create individual autonomy the attempt to seperate ourselves from the dualistic machinations of our ancestors will continually fail. The...
Yes, indeed, and a good trick it is, Apples; but if we move on too soon, our unfinished business can come back to haunt us in our complacency....
I have only glossed over Kierkegaard, so I won't pretend to know much about him. I take my epistemologtical base mostly from Bertrand Russel, and...
Just to let you know, I'm through talking to you for now. Press on if you want, but you have no helpful discourse to offer me, even if you don't...
Forgive, maybe... but never, ever forget.
"Unless of course they become friends and choose to stay together." Slave: Hey, master. I know you daily beat me and starve me and put me to...
I say the recent gun debacle is a good indicator because it's forced some people I know personally, who once took a hard stance for either side,...
Walk long enough and callused will be your feet, Whether you stroll in the field, the desert or the street. Walk in the sun, in the rain or in...
Sir, you belittle their efforts by believing, as you at some point earlier stated, that indignation has no purpose. The slave that never runs away...
Good job! You caught me on a few fine points, and that certainly makes me feel good about starting this thread. Appreciate you. Yes, I...
Likewise, as far as technology being used to keep tabs, it's unlikely that the government would tip their hand too much about it. People act...
I admit I'm not trying very hard here. This post was a quick hitter, so to speak; but it seems others have given some good examples, and it has...
"The thing that makes possible mans inhumanity to man in violation of community regard, is that one tells oneself that the mark is not me nor...
I am on a GPS monitor right now with which the State has straddled me. Example of my point about Orwell. People in America are particularly...
Shrug. The primary point of contention between us is that you are not participating in the human experiment, but deferring participation on the...
Provision: anyone who violates another person's right to do with themselves as they will abdicates their own. Incarceration, or some other form of...
I'm in accord with most of Rand's views on civil liberties, but little else.
Okay, I'm sorry I haven't the time to read through all that's transpired in my abscence, but storch wanted me to give a definition of evil, and I...
Actually, Nietzsche tried to point out such pitfalls; but Nietzsche is little comprehended, and his greatest discreditors have often been his...
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