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Looks like Aristophanes has finally become a Statist.
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I played Risk a few times years ago, liked it, though I didn't find it challenging enough. Just signed up to WarGear. :)
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I'm a male feminist and quick to encourage women to dress as skimpy as possible.
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[quote user="SkepticalMetal"] Also, The Myth of Sisyphus is great too. I'd recommend it to anyone experiencing an existential crisis due to the realization of the absurd. It's really obvious to see the correlation between existentialist thought and things like Taoism, or Buddhist worldview. Camus himself comes off as quite the libertarian
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[quote user="Clayton"] Yes, it is. Hence, parting ways. I dabbled with postmodernism before discovering Mises... that's when I realized that postmodernism is just the disfiguration of philosophy to save statism from its inevitable death at the hands of any rational philosophy . Postmodernism is "words as war"... aka garbage philosophy
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Haidt's research is certainly interesting and can be used to better understand the people we are trying to convince. This said, I find his research biased when it comes to Libertarians, I've tried the questionaire he talks about in the video, and one of the problems is that most of the questions presuppose that the problem must be solved by
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[quote user="Tim67"] 1. I believe in the Welfare State. - I think that social welfare programs are a moral and practical good. The difference in, say, "social health" between relatively low-service America and relatively high-service Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, etc etc (you know the drill) is reasonable evidence for their practical
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[quote user="Jargon"] What's your point? [/quote] Most people don't care about individual liberty and the free market. Winning on those values is about as likely as snow in the Bahamas.
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Individual liberty? PATRIOT Act took a dump all over that, what did the people do? Nothing. How about NDAA? Nothing. Free market? Oh haven't you heard, the free market is the source of all evil, it's responsible for everything from the common cold to poor people.
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[quote user="Consumariat"] There are people that abuse the welfare system their whole lives by having so many children they recieve benefits and never have to work. Which means there will be a exponentially increasing number of poor people if the benefits aren't limited. So Consumariat is actually supporting poverty by insisting that the