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"only"? yep, only ...banning didn't stop it or blunt it...banning only forced a shift in business model Your argument doesn't admit of nuance. Taken to its logical extreme it would ban banning anything by appeal to uselessness. bans, enacted by gov, of anything, are useless slavery is just plain wr...

TANSTAAFL is still true

it'll always be true cuz that's how Reality works

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Heinlein cannot be necessarily be credited with the ideas of his characters

he can for this one (and a whole whack of others he crammed into his characters' mouths: he weren't no commie

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:45 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:04 pm

commonsense wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:59 pm

me too

it's got to be what I judge as a just war

if it is: I'll serve

You sure must love government if you're eager to die for it.

first, if the cause is just (I determine that) I don't give a flip if gov is on my side or the other side

second, if I'm lucky, I won't be the one dyin'

Slavery existed almost everywhere in history until whites abolished it. Blacks should support white power. slavery still exists, and thrives, almost everywhere outlawin' it in certain places only pushed it underground "only"? yep, only ...banning didn't stop it or blunt it...banning only forced a s...

Advocate wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:36 pm Slavery existed almost everywhere in history until whites abolished it. Blacks should support white power.

slavery still exists, and thrives, almost everywhere

outlawin' it in certain places only pushed it underground

commonsense wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:59 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:56 pm

commonsense wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:50 pm HQ, if you were the right age for it, would you go to war?

yep

me too

it's got to be what I judge as a just war

if it is: I'll serve

Would you sell your wife or child for a TV? no, cuz I love them, and, slavery is wrong, but: sure as shit, I'll shoot a stranger who comes into my home and tries to make off with what's mine (tv, computer, spatula, toothpick, piece of moldy bread, etc.) What happens if your wife or child attempts t...

commonsense wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:50 pm HQ, if you were the right age for it, would you go to war?

yep

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:28 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:09 pm
thanks for nuthin', DAM

You're welcome Henry.

And just remember, any time your in for another one to one encounter, do pop in, I am open all hours of eternity.

get bent, guy

ok? no, not okay I'm tried to be nice about all this (and I got nuthin' but lecture for my trouble), so, let me be plain... you're wrong..flat out, plain as the very real, very crooked, nose on my lopsided face; wrong on just about everything in this thread...your assessments of the world, reality,...

Because of circular reasoning, the beginning is the same as the end. It is arguing identity is a loop which contradicts the standard fallacies. so, if I say I am me (and no other) , that is, quirk is quirk , my self-reference (circular reasoning) is contradictory and -- in fact -- I am not me ok, t...

What has any of that got to do with war?

hell if I know...I was respondin' to a non-war comment made up-thread by klewchuk

The painful separation Metaphor is also known in the Jesus Christ story when Jesus was hanging on the cross. In his despair he cried out to his Father, why have you forsaken me. But upon realisation just before he passed away, it suddenly dawned on him that he was the one aka the child of his Fathe...

But how would you know you've never suffered from separation anxiety or existential angst if this feeling has never been your experience? obviously, if I never feel anxiety or fear when alone, if I don't pine for the company of others, if the absence of others brings no apprehension: I don't have s...