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It was vaccines, [GRATUITOUS BARB DELETED]
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To start off with, Epicureanism can be summed up by the tetrapharmakos: [quote user=""]God presents no fears, death no worries. And while good is readily attainable, evil is readily endurable.[/quote] This is beyond naive and Epicureanism cannot solve the problems of the human predicament as post-Classical philosophers have noted. For one
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[quote user=""] [quote user="hayekianxyz"]You guys are all relying on the same strawmen, nobody has argued that because something is tradition it is "right". Lam is arguing that traditions generally do a very good job of passing information from one generation to another and adapt through trial and error. This isn't
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[quote user=""] [quote user="Lam"]If you destroy tradition, you destroy society.[/quote] [quote user="Filc"]Wow, just wow. What a remarkable quote. I mean holy cow, I am really dumbfounded, stupefied even![/quote] [quote user="Lam"]I dare you to disprove it.[/quote] lol lolol rofflecopter![/quote] And how is this
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[quote user=""] [quote user="Lam"] If you destroy tradition, you destroy society. [/quote] Wow, just wow. What a remarkable quote. I mean holy cow, I am really dumbfounded, stupefied even![/quote] I dare you to disprove it.
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[quote user=""] Lam: "And yet you have given no collaborating evidence with respect to Oakland's ghettos. If you are right that Oakland's ghettos have PDAs, then why can't you point me to a single piece of evidence? Is it really that hard." I don't know of any examples that are on the Internet to give you. Lam: "You
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[quote user=""]It isn't my fault that your whole argument is based on the logical fallacy of an appeal to tradition.[/quote] If you destroy tradition, you destroy society.
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[quote user=""] @Lam Moi: "What I've seen happen, is that in ghettos, such as areas in Oakland, California" Since not all ghettos are the same, anything I said after ^^^^^ refers to Oakland's ghettos.[/quote] And yet you have given no collaborating evidence with respect to Oakland's ghettos. If you are right that Oakland's
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[quote user=""] Anarchy = lack of rulers Anarchy != lack of the rule of law GGUL[/quote] So good hayekianxyz was using the proper use of the word "anarchy". Alas, you disagreed with his conclusions so instead of attacking his premises (can't let a traditional modus operandi by changed), you decided to make it a semantics debate
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[quote user=""] Abolishing the state (once again, whatever that actually means) isn't an option, and doing so would lead to chaos. Nice outdated conception of anarchy. Thanks so much for your opinion.[/quote] Like it or not, you can't just redefine common words in the english language in order to suit your own judgments of value.