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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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God your a moron. - 17/01/2010 09:10:17 PM 979 Views
be nice - 18/01/2010 06:26:58 AM 914 Views
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And live accordingly. Just like everyone else. - 18/01/2010 11:10:51 PM 945 Views
Re: And live accordingly. Just like everyone else. - 20/01/2010 10:40:36 PM 911 Views
It is, I believe, hardest for the intelligent educated man. - 21/01/2010 10:29:39 AM 1059 Views
You can't use logic in an irrational argument. - 17/01/2010 10:12:11 AM 940 Views
LOL... *NM* - 18/01/2010 05:21:14 AM 522 Views
You and Adam are being equally unconstructive. - 18/01/2010 06:21:45 AM 838 Views
why do you imply "constructive" is in anyway the intent? *NM* - 18/01/2010 06:32:27 AM 411 Views
*shrug* I never stopped believing in lost causes? - 18/01/2010 07:36:04 AM 841 Views
Re: You can't use logic in an irrational argument. - 18/01/2010 06:28:41 AM 1037 Views
Always welcome. - 18/01/2010 07:31:27 AM 1090 Views
We finally converted you - 17/01/2010 08:43:25 PM 856 Views
Not much of a friend then. Good ridance to bad friends. *NM* - 17/01/2010 08:51:02 PM 554 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 429 Views
seriously. *NM* - 17/01/2010 10:46:17 PM 379 Views
Only because such sentiment is my pet peeve...condemning exclusivity is hypocritical. *NM* - 19/01/2010 12:37:37 AM 473 Views
yeah no kidding - 18/01/2010 06:30:45 AM 843 Views
It forces other people to accept THEIR ideology that same sex unions are legitimate. - 18/01/2010 01:49:20 AM 1065 Views
I would assume, then, that you don't support any government-mandated health care? - 18/01/2010 02:07:40 AM 851 Views
Correct - 18/01/2010 04:29:04 AM 934 Views
Although I disagree with the vast majority of your arguments, - 18/01/2010 08:50:09 AM 923 Views
Thank you. - 20/01/2010 01:47:34 AM 1095 Views
Please tell me you have a source for that quotation. Other than me. - 21/01/2010 12:31:27 PM 978 Views
It's GK Chesterton! What the hell are you going on about? - 27/01/2010 02:41:00 AM 815 Views
Link? - 27/01/2010 09:28:22 AM 945 Views
I can't find a link to the exact quote - 27/01/2010 12:14:19 PM 1043 Views
Re: Link? - 27/01/2010 01:38:36 PM 1045 Views
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we do not exist in a free market. - 18/01/2010 04:09:37 AM 821 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 424 Views
I am simply pointing out your arguments do not apply to the present economic environment. - 18/01/2010 04:46:04 AM 812 Views
No I am not. - 19/01/2010 10:44:31 PM 926 Views
That's utter nonsense. - 18/01/2010 04:19:57 AM 869 Views
Re: That's utter nonsense. - 18/01/2010 04:41:27 AM 905 Views
civil marriages DO have a purpose. - 18/01/2010 04:49:12 AM 861 Views
Re: civil marriages DO have a purpose. - 19/01/2010 10:47:18 PM 987 Views
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Re: That's utter nonsense. - 19/01/2010 10:59:45 PM 848 Views
Re: That's utter nonsense. - 18/01/2010 07:15:50 AM 1024 Views
Re: That's utter nonsense. - 20/01/2010 01:38:37 AM 790 Views
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He said as much in his response to me above. *NM* - 18/01/2010 09:37:49 PM 359 Views
That's such an amusing argument - 18/01/2010 08:17:15 PM 833 Views
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cannoli is a pastry *NM* - 19/01/2010 07:25:04 PM 362 Views
I have no problem with people with pastry based names, just pasta - 21/01/2010 12:28:44 AM 827 Views
I can't help but find it funny - 18/01/2010 12:51:57 PM 822 Views
So... - 18/01/2010 03:39:33 PM 979 Views
I think you missed who was the one to walk out - 18/01/2010 04:11:05 PM 860 Views
you acept your friends with their warts or you don't - 18/01/2010 06:45:13 PM 961 Views
I think you missed who was the one to walk out *NM* - 18/01/2010 08:01:25 PM 318 Views
I don't think it was that clear - 18/01/2010 10:01:32 PM 891 Views
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I wasn't taking sides - 18/01/2010 10:57:39 PM 820 Views

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