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Who knows what I meant; I just feel that sustainability comes down to how well humans uphold morality (not just what is in their best interest - i.e. incentives and consequentialism). Either privatization enables enforcement of contracts/prisons or we would still need a government.
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Please elaborate more on your class system description and how the priests would be able to regulate members of society
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Oh, alright thanks!
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No clue what just happened
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[quote user="gotlucky"] [quote user="Monroe"] As vive la insurrection alluded to, these groups violate some aspect of natural law. [/quote] vive is addicted to natural rights theory. He is forever talking about the morality of reason and its application to objective and absolute morality. [/quote] Love me some moral absolutism Is
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Well I'll try to lay out what I've heard from the Libertarian View on same-sex marriage. First of all, there is a broader problem in groups' rights: "worker's rights," "women's rights" and now "gay rights." As vive la insurrection alluded to, these groups violate some aspect of natural law. That is to
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[quote user="Wheylous"] This disregards anarchy as a process, and imagines it as a fixed point in time. To actually make it to anarchy, we'd need a cultural shift in the people's understanding. Once this cultural shift occurs, I find it highly unlikely that anyone would agree with the guy who says "hey, let's create one coercive
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There is not necessarily a hierarchy I can think of, but basically like others have said, value free sciences deal with 'is/are' rather than 'ought/should be.' Other sciences, for example sociology, are considered value free based on the fact that they explain the way things develop. However, to keep these scientists in check, there
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Neodoxy^ I share your lack of care. BUT yeah people who wish to abolish the electoral college generally wish to replace it with popular vote, as if to say America is a direct democracy - which, Constitutionally, we are not. To reiterate what gotlucky said, a popular vote would allow for high population coastal states to decide for other smaller populated
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Oh and to answer your question, no I wouldn't worry about government manipulating gold/silver prices (they cannot do much except buy or sell). The slight downturn in gold prices is not bad considering the almost 15-year rise. I would think this would be a good time for people to get rid of some more of their fiat money in exchange for precious metals