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[quote user="Clayton"] tl;dr - Looks like a lot of prattle to me. Clayton - [/quote] This
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[quote user="Ron Marquis"] Very well. Let's review recent current events here in the U.S. Without being too long winded or required to produce more than one example, to start. Insurance Industry. Banking Industry. I guess that's two. Required bailouts. Senior officers awarded themselves large "performance" bonus. Some took
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[quote user="auctionguy10"] Abrogation is a silly theory, [/quote] If that's true then please clear a couple things up for me. Originally Muslims used to pray in the direction of Jerusalem. Then Mohammed changed the Qibla (direction of prayer for those not familiar with the term) to Mecca. He claimed to have received a revelation in the
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[quote user="Ron Marquis"] So what's with this free-world support to introduce democracy to recently "liberated" oppressed nations?? It isn't really amusing to think that the greater political powers subcribe to "misery loves company" is it? I agree that freedom to lie, cheat, outwit, con and otherwise pursue happiness
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[quote user="Prateek Sanjay"] Yes, to reiterate, how on earth did all those Eastern Jewish people get along just fine under Sultans, Caliphs, mullahs, and Emirs for more than one thousand years? And how on earth did a small bunch of Russian, Hungarian, Polish, and German migrants make it all so irreversibly bad, even for their eastern brethren
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[quote user="liberty student"] [quote user="JABB"]Of course everyone has a bias. I don't think this precludes intellectual honesty. Ludwig Von Mises, was biased against socialism but he gave it a fair critique.[/quote] Don't compare yourself to Mises. He was able to make value free arguments against Socialism. Libertarians
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[quote user="James"] There isn't much point to democracy without capitalism. There wouldn't be any wealth to plunder. [/quote] This
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[quote user="Laotzu del Zinn"] Because you can't discuss the Israeli-Palistinian conflict with total intellectual honesty without discussing the motivations of the parties involved. This means a discussion of Islam is bound to come up A state made up by fairly recent colonists and legitimized by far off cultures establishes itself in your
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[quote user="liberty student"] There is no such thing as total intellectual honesty. Everyone has a bias. The reason why Islam comes up, because without demonizing Islam, no one could make any argument for Israel. @Zinn, these aren't libertarians. [/quote] Of course everyone has a bias. I don't think this precludes intellectual honesty
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[quote user="Laotzu del Zinn"] Isn't this thread supposed to be about Isreal? Why does any thread about Isreal have to turn into a thread about radical Islam? [/quote] Because you can't discuss the Israeli-Palistinian conflict with total intellectual honesty without discussing the motivations of the parties involved. This means a discussion