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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970    So your standard for judging the acceptability of a system of social organization is: How easily someone can commit a crime without fear of "reciprocal...

Quote:Originally Posted by jazzguru Thank you for your opinion.Why not just tell him to **** himself? The intent is there. The thanks are clearly sarcastic. This dismissive phrase you constantly repeat is just you acting like a...

Muppetry explains why his statement was not ad hominem. Jazz responds by saying he's tired of all the ad hominem. There's some sort of filter that appears to prevent Jazz & MJ from accepting counterarguments. It's confirmation...

Some folks just hate the idea of evolution so much that they want to pretend that humans aren't social creatures.

Much less flawed than utopian dreams of anarchy. What you lack is any sense of pragmatism.

Quote: Originally Posted by ferdinandcc  I certainly don't believe that everyone who voted against Obama are racists, but to your first question: why else would you be against gay...

Quote: Originally Posted by jazzguru  institutionalized violence and plunder Corporate fracking and oil drilling operations?  

Quote:Originally Posted by muppetry  No - it's easy.  If you turn out to be wrong about this year's budget, just change the subject to the next 10 years' budget instead.  Exactly.

Someone forgot to turn off MJ's "disregard argument, repeat countered statement" subroutine.  Unless you are arguing that 3.718 > 3.796. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me coming from you.   MJ, do you believe that 3.718...

*cough* Jesus is real and evolution isn't *cough*   Reducing guaranteed growth means less money is spent than what was going to be spent.     Also,   2012 federal budget expenditures:  $3.796...