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Obviously oppose it, freedom ect. But a few practical considerations: How do you levy the tax, is it based on fat content, or energy content? Basing it on fat content makes no sense, since all energy is fattening. If it is based on energy content it could simply become a tax on men, tall...

China. Although the government is still bad and oppressive it has opened up much freer trade and much greater private ownership of means of production since the 1980's. Since that time its economy has achieved exceptional growth, and hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty. See...

Who is to be the judge of when a good is being "underprovided" and what is the correct level of provision?

Re: them cityrail moments -Sitting on the train and a man answers the phone. Soon he is yelling at the top of his voice about how "I can't live like this" and "they are destroying my life." He is pacing around the carriage as he yells, he looks angry, but also as though he could burst into...

Which parts of it are poignant? All I see is one giant straw man. This point seems to articulate what he is getting at with most of his ramblings in the first part. The fact the some people claim to be acting in self defense when they are not really is irrelevant. The term "initiate force"...

Let's smear fag feces and fag semen all over the bible.

Hahahaha, "beyond reasonable doubt." They don't have any evidence at all. Well, they have speculation and conjecture, those are kinds of evidence.

The issue is so central to international politics, war, terrorism and US foreign policy.

I sort of agree. It annoys me when people start calling each other idiots, and posting facepalm pics, or simply expressing exasperation that someone has a different opinion and calling them an immoral monster. Often they reveal that they are the idiots. My debates with KFunk are a good example...

Good post KFunk. I will get to it when I have the time to reply properly.

Yes but as I said, this may be largely because we are trained to believe it is wrong. A child who has been sexually abused may believe their is something wrong with them and there upbringing because they have been taught to believe this by society. Would this necessarily be true if society had a...

I WILL NEVER GIVE IN TO THESE LUNATICS WHO THINK I SHOULD ACTUALLY QUESTION MY BELIEFS AND ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN AND RATIONALIZE THEM! How retarded that anyone would dare question our precious status quo.

Hitler interfered with other people's lives, so by that standard he was clearly doing something wrong. It's a great standard.

Humans were slaughtering each other long before guns were invented. Anyway, I don't think the chimps example is helping the discussion much here. I would be interested to see whether you can provide more than intuition and a vague assertion the you have done research. Quotes and sources...

Well it would be interesting to see if the rate they kill each other at is actually higher than humans. Again, a very questionable assertion. Violence is dangerous, expensive and damaging to one's reputation, so even in arms length transactions with strangers it generally pays to be...

It already is a legal taxable profession. Welcome to Australia.

Hobbesian state of nature is not nonsense. Even chimpanzees organize them selves with basic rules and norms. They don't just wantonly kill each other. Humans are the same, in most cases the natural incentive is for humans to co-operate rather than to fight. Life was "short, brutish and nasty"...

Not at all. Politics will always lead to corruption and abuse. It is human nature. Power corrupts.

I'm the opposite of a wanker. I'm frank and honest about what I think and I don't go out of my way to try and prove to everyone how intelligent and well read I am.

He is well read, we know this because he name drops what he reads and inserts long, irrelevant quotes all the time. Tbh he is overrated. He makes some interesting points, but sometimes he is just a wanker.