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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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be nice - 18/01/2010 06:26:58 AM 723 Views
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You can't use logic in an irrational argument. - 17/01/2010 10:12:11 AM 766 Views
LOL... *NM* - 18/01/2010 05:21:14 AM 404 Views
You and Adam are being equally unconstructive. - 18/01/2010 06:21:45 AM 678 Views
why do you imply "constructive" is in anyway the intent? *NM* - 18/01/2010 06:32:27 AM 329 Views
*shrug* I never stopped believing in lost causes? - 18/01/2010 07:36:04 AM 678 Views
Re: You can't use logic in an irrational argument. - 18/01/2010 06:28:41 AM 812 Views
Always welcome. - 18/01/2010 07:31:27 AM 914 Views
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Not much of a friend then. Good ridance to bad friends. *NM* - 17/01/2010 08:51:02 PM 471 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 333 Views
seriously. *NM* - 17/01/2010 10:46:17 PM 285 Views
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yeah no kidding - 18/01/2010 06:30:45 AM 668 Views
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Correct - 18/01/2010 04:29:04 AM 766 Views
Although I disagree with the vast majority of your arguments, - 18/01/2010 08:50:09 AM 747 Views
Thank you. - 20/01/2010 01:47:34 AM 915 Views
Please tell me you have a source for that quotation. Other than me. - 21/01/2010 12:31:27 PM 787 Views
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Link? - 27/01/2010 09:28:22 AM 764 Views
I can't find a link to the exact quote - 27/01/2010 12:14:19 PM 862 Views
Re: Link? - 27/01/2010 01:38:36 PM 883 Views
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No I am not. - 19/01/2010 10:44:31 PM 766 Views
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Re: That's utter nonsense. - 18/01/2010 07:15:50 AM 830 Views
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That's such an amusing argument - 18/01/2010 08:17:15 PM 674 Views
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cannoli is a pastry *NM* - 19/01/2010 07:25:04 PM 269 Views
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I can't help but find it funny - 18/01/2010 12:51:57 PM 651 Views
So... - 18/01/2010 03:39:33 PM 805 Views
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you acept your friends with their warts or you don't - 18/01/2010 06:45:13 PM 793 Views
I think you missed who was the one to walk out *NM* - 18/01/2010 08:01:25 PM 250 Views
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