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Well, there's rape and there's rape. As long as it wasn't rape rape.

Wow. I totally agree with murphyad. The assumption that learning an Asian language is at the expense of learning proper English is nonsense. So much time is wasted in schools that could be devoted to this. Naturally I don't support the government doing anything, but if it insists on setting...

I think its a disgusting and irresponsible thing to do. Such people be pressured into avoiding such behavior and may be shunned from the community for behaving in such away. But I do not think it is acceptable to criminalize this behavior and to lock people up for it. Also, without the...

ALL consensual behavior should be legal, without exception.

These crazy libertarians. What about my positive FREEDOM to spend other people's money and to tell them how to live their lives. You can talk about freedom as including positive and negative freedoms if you like. But just so you know when libertarians use the word freedom, they only mean...

On balance, it probably wouldn't have. But it there is at least a reasonable chance that it may have. Whereas the over funded military and intelligence behemoths totally failed. At the risk of causing an uproar and a bunch of people labeling me a deranged manic, I would say that if all...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Yeah I know your views. If your logic is sound, you should have no trouble answering my few very simple questions about analogous situations. You are strawmanning me again. I did not say it is so we have choices, I said very clearly: "the point of those...

The most obvious example of the complete incompetence of government at protecting us is 9/11. Warnings from international intelligence agencies about an attack on 9/11 were ignored. After one plane had crashed into the first tower, the security agencies had an hour to react to the other...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot How do you know from the chemical make up of something whether or not it results in enjoyment or not? I'm not denying addiction, but even if we take your contemptuous view of all smokers, even scientists have observed that certain pleasure centers of...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot How do you know this? What are you basing this on? Why should we believe you over millions of smokers who say they do enjoy it? Is it not possible that although smokers do not get "high" they enjoy the ritual of smoking, and find it peaceful and relaxing...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot I know, but why is addiction different. Why can we enjoy satisfying a natural urge, but not an urge that is the product of addiction. I'm sure he lives on planet earth too. Why should we disbelieve him about how he feels in favor of the view of some...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot If you're going to make claims like this the onus is on you point them out. Medieval Ireland and Iceland were close to being anarchist and they lasted for centuries. They did not end up collapsing because they were defective. They were invaded by governments.

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot How the fuck do you know what he was feeling? Why is satisfying an addiction not real enjoyment? Would you say that enjoying food or sex is not real enjoyment because you are merely satisfying some urge? Yeah that emotionally loaded example focusing on...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Intelligence and knowledge does not equal virtuouness. History continually shows us that if you give people power to Run other peoples lives they almost always end up abusing it for their own enrichment.

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot That's because you still haven't answered the questions. Bringing up ciggarettes answers nothing. How do you know people's happiness is reduced by smoking? Have you ever considered that people enjoy smoking? You're just backing up assertions with more...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Lentern: If most people are stupid, and demcracy is good, won't most people just vote for stupid things. Why would we think that wise, benevolent intellectuals will rise to the top of the polticial system?

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Yes I know what your assertion is, I was rather hoping you might back it up with some explaination about how they might go about deriving such a wonderful formula, rather than just repeating your self. You also admitted earlier that you don't believe...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Lentern, I'm more than happy for you to live out your authoritarian dream. Sign over power of attourney to someone and have them punish you if eat unhealthy foods. That's the thing about libertarians. We're happy to let you live the way you want, even if...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot I don't deny that individuals make decisions they may later regret. But you have failed to demonstrate how regulators would do a BETTER job of making decisions for people. As I said they can tell us how to be healthier, I'm all for people being better...