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I think it may just be a dislocated nipple to be honest.

What are the least despotic taxes known to mankind? There's only one, a single tax on property, property being defined as anything with intrinsic market value. So this assets tax... would be collected once per year on the same day for everybody? And levied against the current market rate of everyth...

My heaven is vestigial

Apparently it is something very much like the spleen Harbal.

The very existence of his kind, his class, and his ideology is a treat to all humanity. It is the thread of tradition, of vested interests, of hierarchy and domination of one class by the other held together by the bounds of tradition, privilege and wealth. His is the ideology of the thought police...

And yet I can write coherently about these things, while you are a grunting halfwit no matter what the topic.

FWIW, this is where I read about the originalism thing.

As you all know, the amendment second ratified to the US Constitution is not about guns. The objects of the right it constituionalizes are “Arms.” Swords, bayonets, and hatchets, as well as muskets, were the arms of the Revolutionary War. Current arms of individual use include body armor, hand gren...

Harbal wrote:

FlashDangerpants wrote:Hi I am new too.
I did about half a BA in Philosophy once.

So, basically, you just did a B?

Correct. Definitely not good enough to get an A!

Dalek Prime wrote:All forum members gathered to meet in one place. Who would be the first to die?

There's a guy called d63 who is so wrapped up in witnessing himself that I doubt he could cross a street without dying.

Of course there are accurate numbers, I just made it your responsibility to provide them. I noticed you don't have a clue, or at least you've provided nothings to support your ravings. You're bluffing. You don't have the numbers because you would have to make them up. Most of us couldn't do that, s...

That was already made obvious by you saying it in your first post.

Are you saying that marriage is non-judgementally defined as a form of selfishness ('selfish like a gene')
Or are you arguing that because marriage is selfish it is also wrong ('selfish like easting all the cookies')?

Philosophy Explorer wrote:So these one-on-one relationships I say is due to selfishness as the partners are unwilling to share their mates with anyone else.

Is this a specialist non-pejorative use of the concept selfish, or are you arguing that marriage is selfish and that selfishness entails lack of virtue?

He's also well known for a (IMO) very strange argument he presented in favour of fox hunting. It was based on a long forgotten Roman version of the concept of Piety (IIRC). It wasn't terribly convincing, but I can't really remember any details.

The food wastage stat comes from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/en/ It's fairly well established. A much higher proportion of food spoils before reaching market in low income nations due to poor infrastructure (refrigeration, decent roads etc). C...

Question 1: How many gun owners have there ever been in the USA? Question 2: How many gun owners that have ever been in the USA, did as you've described above? I want a damn accurate percentage, or your words are far more ludicrous than mine. It's my assertion that the percentage of gun owners that...