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banned, the utilitarian arguments work to great effect against many of the objections in this thread, which are weak imo. gun control advocates don't care if there were brutal shootings in Norway or Finland or X nation with gun control, for example, as the amount of shootings in the US still dwarfs basically all nations with stricter gun control
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@Willy Truth: Regarding the Onion piece, I love how liberals advocate so many things in terms of positive rights but are unaware of the irony of attacking their own logic when it pertains to 'the right' to own a gun. Beating up a strawman they embrace in the same breath for other things.
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@fountainhead: what's the source on that claim about gun violence in the uk? Somehow I have a feeling it isn't so clear cut as both partisans would have you believe. Stat cookery and all that. EDIT: Consumariat seems to have addressed this pretty well.
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Maybe one of the reasons they're abandoning this is because this software itself is abandonware. I've never seen any other message boards with this kind of framework. It seems complex and overly costly to support and doesn't even apparently function as intended. Basically it seems over-engineered when there are more streamlined forum types
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I really liked the idea behind this forum software, but too much of the features didn't really work all that well. I welcome the change to the new boards. If you can't eventually merge all the posts, make an effort to save the archives. There is too much good stuff here to lose.
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I think modern approaches to feminism and race relations doom itself by insisting on polylogism which make any coherent conversation impossible. Though I don't think many who claim to understand both seem to be looking for any attempt at a conversation anyway.
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Would it be correct to consider "State Capitalism" a tautology? Trying to repackage the same thing, depending on the context the word is used, as something allegedly completely different, using different words? In socialists and anti-capitalists' case, it's used to describe a planned economy. For libertarians, who don't seem to
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110. HITLER!!! 111. Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and Castro. They perverted the true ideals of the revolution by being capitalists and having too much power. 112. Nazis. 113. Ayn Rand. Also like, Nietzsche. I heard they are the inspiration for the Republicans 114. Somalia 115. Corruption 116. Fascism! CONSUME. PRODUCE. OBEY. I should make a stencil for that
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Willy, I don't think the the social contract theory was intended to literally describe a contract, and I don't think that's what Hobbes and Locke meant. Kind of weasel-wordish, but it's more of an attempt to explain why most people see States as legitimate in the first place, and why states have historically (in modern times) been the
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So when talking about the theories that underpin the legitimacy of the US (particularly Locke) the argument that the state cannot tax because it was delegated its authority by the people who themselves as individuals cannot tax, seems to ignore the aspect that individuals could "tax" (use violence against one another) pre-social contract.