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Thank you. Cannoli Send a noteboard - 20/01/2010 01:47:34 AM
you are remarkably self-consistent in them. There's something perversely admirable about a logical philosophy with which one almost completely disagrees.
I feel the same way about what my father used to call "honest liberals."

EDIT: You really are an anarcho-capitalist, aren't you?
Technically, a capitalist is an investor, so no. I am in favor of very limited government and personal freedom above social justice. I do not suscribe to any sort of capitalist ideal, nor do I labor under any delusion that capitalism or the free-market makes things better. Over all, a free market places the least restriction on personal freedoms, and I believe that property rights are the keystone or foundation of all other rights. If property rights are not respected, the other rights are no more than privileges granted by the true powers that be in a state (whether government or big business or religious hierarchies), which may be then revoked as they will. The best guarantor of everyone's freedom is for everyone's freedom to be respected. If that translates into archo-capitalism, because I respect the right of an employee to work for whatever conditions HE decides are most favorable and an employer to pay what HE believes the work is worth, so be it. Likewise, when it comes to intersection of personal morality and civil law, I believe in allowing people enough leeway to damn themselves.
"When God put man in a garden, He girt him with a sword/ And sent him forth a free knight, that he might betray his Lord."
Cannoli
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
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the problem with your friend is the "southern evangelical christian" part - 17/01/2010 09:07:02 AM 807 Views
They believe gay marriage is ongoing unrepentant sin. - 17/01/2010 12:04:58 PM 801 Views
God your a moron. - 17/01/2010 09:10:17 PM 757 Views
be nice - 18/01/2010 06:26:58 AM 663 Views
<shrug> They can believe that all that they like - 18/01/2010 08:07:28 PM 714 Views
And live accordingly. Just like everyone else. - 18/01/2010 11:10:51 PM 719 Views
Re: And live accordingly. Just like everyone else. - 20/01/2010 10:40:36 PM 671 Views
It is, I believe, hardest for the intelligent educated man. - 21/01/2010 10:29:39 AM 806 Views
You can't use logic in an irrational argument. - 17/01/2010 10:12:11 AM 703 Views
LOL... *NM* - 18/01/2010 05:21:14 AM 385 Views
You and Adam are being equally unconstructive. - 18/01/2010 06:21:45 AM 615 Views
why do you imply "constructive" is in anyway the intent? *NM* - 18/01/2010 06:32:27 AM 302 Views
*shrug* I never stopped believing in lost causes? - 18/01/2010 07:36:04 AM 623 Views
Re: You can't use logic in an irrational argument. - 18/01/2010 06:28:41 AM 758 Views
Always welcome. - 18/01/2010 07:31:27 AM 867 Views
We finally converted you - 17/01/2010 08:43:25 PM 643 Views
Not much of a friend then. Good ridance to bad friends. *NM* - 17/01/2010 08:51:02 PM 443 Views
I agree. A friend who can't respect differences of opinion is no friend at all. *NM* - 17/01/2010 09:11:33 PM 305 Views
seriously. *NM* - 17/01/2010 10:46:17 PM 261 Views
Only because such sentiment is my pet peeve...condemning exclusivity is hypocritical. *NM* - 19/01/2010 12:37:37 AM 329 Views
yeah no kidding - 18/01/2010 06:30:45 AM 629 Views
It forces other people to accept THEIR ideology that same sex unions are legitimate. - 18/01/2010 01:49:20 AM 804 Views
I would assume, then, that you don't support any government-mandated health care? - 18/01/2010 02:07:40 AM 623 Views
Correct - 18/01/2010 04:29:04 AM 704 Views
Although I disagree with the vast majority of your arguments, - 18/01/2010 08:50:09 AM 697 Views
Thank you. - 20/01/2010 01:47:34 AM 851 Views
Please tell me you have a source for that quotation. Other than me. - 21/01/2010 12:31:27 PM 718 Views
It's GK Chesterton! What the hell are you going on about? - 27/01/2010 02:41:00 AM 593 Views
Link? - 27/01/2010 09:28:22 AM 690 Views
I can't find a link to the exact quote - 27/01/2010 12:14:19 PM 799 Views
Re: Link? - 27/01/2010 01:38:36 PM 821 Views
Perhaps we should define our terms more precisely. - 15/02/2010 11:28:09 AM 1191 Views
we do not exist in a free market. - 18/01/2010 04:09:37 AM 634 Views
And that's bad. Since when has the correct response to oppression been "accept further oppression"? *NM* - 18/01/2010 04:30:44 AM 310 Views
I am simply pointing out your arguments do not apply to the present economic environment. - 18/01/2010 04:46:04 AM 581 Views
No I am not. - 19/01/2010 10:44:31 PM 713 Views
That's utter nonsense. - 18/01/2010 04:19:57 AM 661 Views
Re: That's utter nonsense. - 18/01/2010 04:41:27 AM 679 Views
civil marriages DO have a purpose. - 18/01/2010 04:49:12 AM 661 Views
Re: civil marriages DO have a purpose. - 19/01/2010 10:47:18 PM 720 Views
Re: That's utter nonsense. - 18/01/2010 07:13:54 AM 665 Views
Re: That's utter nonsense. - 19/01/2010 10:59:45 PM 630 Views
Re: That's utter nonsense. - 18/01/2010 07:15:50 AM 769 Views
Re: That's utter nonsense. - 20/01/2010 01:38:37 AM 551 Views
Are you at all surprised? - 18/01/2010 07:59:30 AM 653 Views
A truly free country means I don't have the freedom to shoot you - 18/01/2010 05:57:44 AM 750 Views
You really said nothing, right there. - 18/01/2010 08:34:33 AM 699 Views
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He said as much in his response to me above. *NM* - 18/01/2010 09:37:49 PM 249 Views
That's such an amusing argument - 18/01/2010 08:17:15 PM 615 Views
I'm against people with pasta based nicknames on fantasy forums *NM* - 19/01/2010 03:03:31 PM 271 Views
cannoli is a pastry *NM* - 19/01/2010 07:25:04 PM 245 Views
I have no problem with people with pastry based names, just pasta - 21/01/2010 12:28:44 AM 589 Views
I can't help but find it funny - 18/01/2010 12:51:57 PM 604 Views
So... - 18/01/2010 03:39:33 PM 742 Views
I think you missed who was the one to walk out - 18/01/2010 04:11:05 PM 626 Views
you acept your friends with their warts or you don't - 18/01/2010 06:45:13 PM 730 Views
I think you missed who was the one to walk out *NM* - 18/01/2010 08:01:25 PM 228 Views
I don't think it was that clear - 18/01/2010 10:01:32 PM 650 Views
I don't think it is all that clear yet, either - 18/01/2010 10:27:54 PM 684 Views
I wasn't taking sides - 18/01/2010 10:57:39 PM 562 Views

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