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[quote] Ys, let's make up bad motives for our opponents and psycholgize their arguments, because that makes it easy to render them less " valiable."[/quote] Yes, let's ignore my post and play the victim. So you disagree that the State's actions are inherently unjust, fair enough, that requires a subjective value judgement. What
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This could be the beginning of a movement to use physchiatric commitment to by pass the criminal system in order to imprison people without jury trials. In a way, its surpising thats its not more common already. I guess the gullibility of juries makes it unneccesary so far.
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I dont get it.
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A New Law Makes it Illegal to Melt Pennies and Nickles.
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[quote]Or did you just stop by to try and troll me a little? [/quote] This. What you imagine to be your "realist" perspective is actually the lack of any perspective.
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[quote]They're all gonna be rich now, since welfare programs are what make people poor. [/quote] Welfare doesn't make welfare recipients poor, it makes society poor. I love your argument though, "If california takes away welfare, they will have to find work." Duh.
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[quote]I thought they had unrestrained free markets back then?[/quote] Really? In Medieval Europe many commonly bought items like bread were price fixed. Contrary to popular myth, freedom is not the natural state of man. Man entered into existence as a social animal, part of a collective. Freedom had to be learned. Economic intervention is present as
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[quote] well what else are they gonna do ofcourse they're mad. [/quote] You contribute nothing, ever.
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[quote]The person renting an apartment from a landlord signed a contract voluntarily, agreeing to certain terms. Nobody has signed a contract with the government. I'm not sure what part of "voluntary" is misunderstood.[/quote] A home invader hasn't signed a contract, but they would be evicted even faster than a tenant. The land lord
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I just saw it. Not what I was expecting, it has more to do with the Baron Alliance, Magna Carta, and war with France then I could have guessed possible. Hilarious that the NYT and WaPo should think being (roughly) historically accurate to medieval English politics makes it a "tea party" movie.