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aiddon wrote:Would personal freedom include being free to marry whom you wish?

As long as the "whom" is a human, then yes (barring incest).

As a Libertarian, I subscribe to ideas of extremely limited government, personal freedom, unfettered capitalism (no government allowance of monopolies, corporate welfare, etc), legalization of marijuana. I am not supportive of radical change, but want to awaken sheeple from their state of comfortabl...

Is it egotistical to think that a God would die for you? People who believe in the barbaric human blood sacrifice of the Triune Jesus/God must believe that the greatest force ever to exist decided that humans, lowly creations whom we are told are infinitely inferior to God, are somehow more importa...

But why should anyone want to be an anarchist ? Why? Beats me. I'm not an anachist. You come from a nicely organized socialist little state (= US Army). Everybody is taken care for there, I was told. Not quite socialist, nor egalitarian (at least when I was in), but more of a meritocracy which I su...

I subscribed to the Kindle edition on a trial basis, but since one does not get access to the archives I went for the print edition. As I’ve been finding out, there’s a lot of good stuff in the archives. To be honest, I still like the feel of a magazine in my hands.

Hi duscek: To answer your question, I’d say a hard core libertarian is probably an anarchist.

I’m not a psychologist, but my wife has been for the past 26 years (PhD in Industrial/Organizational). To make a blanket statement about it not being a science is a tad disingenuous or at least uninformed. Some areas of psychology are scientifically/statistically driven with hard data where others a...

I recently subscribed to PN and found this forum. Not being a philosopher I’m hoping to learn from the more erudite folks here. A quick bio: Live in coastal south Florida, 58, married 33 yrs; 4 kids- all adopted as adolescents including 2 sisters we adopted from Russia earlier this year; Education: ...

I'm new here and have a question for the moderators. I recently subscribed to PN via US Kindle. Does that form of subscription allow for access to PN's archived articles?

Thank you.