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anantksundaram wrote: » First, the use of the word 'consensus' by people on the Right is complete and utter nonsense. Just a strawman. Politicians (e.g., Gore) have used the word, but I challenge you to find one pro-climate scientist that has used…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismY 1) It happens constantly, which is why we have constant change in science. Science is designed to be tested and challenged, as well as re-proven. 2) You, as a layman, could formulate a solid hypothesis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cjcampbell The Supreme Court has consistently disagreed with you. No one should be required to pay a tax or get a license in order to worship as they wish. Requiring a church to pay a tax in order to exist is as ob…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismY From my experience, and I've traveled far and wide, intolerance is universal among the ignorant and fearful; but I can also say that tolerance is universal among the compassionate. These traits seem to em…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Splif On climate change, to me the debate boils down to this: If the group of people that believe it is not detrimental to the planet are wrong what are the consequences if we do nothing? If the other side of the argu…
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That's correct Foggy... Scientists once believed and preached the earth was flat, the earth revolved around the sun, that if you were sick then bloodletting would cure you, that processed foods were ok for human consumption, and as recently as the 1…
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@freediverx - appreciate that very much. Thank you.
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muppetry wrote: » The problem is not your explanation - it is that you now seem to be addressing a different question. I'm not arguing about the pros and cons of a free market per se, that's a quite separate discussion. My original comment was i…
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I'm sincerely not seeing such a huge difference from Isaacson, based on this review. More interviews with people close to Jobs, which is great, but "dispelling myths" - how? If I had to encapsulate Isaacson's depiction of Jobs it would be exactly as…
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muppetry wrote: » OK - so what stopped it from being a free market? And in the civil war through the 1960s period, how did it differ and become a free market? Both those periods were characterized by significant racial discrimination. And if the l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton Yup. I've read earnest libertarian writings that advocate a free-market solution to ending discrimination, but they woefully assume that all economic actors behave out of pure economic self-interest,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by foggyhill I'm not talking about one lone incident, there's a massive pattern of "incidents" that's just the worse one. Another incident, someone threw bricks at my houses and windows, another one, a guy followed me…
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Quote: Originally Posted by muppetry Ah - so are you saying that they did not have the necessary legal protections to enable them to participate in the free market that the rest of the population enjoyed? And no, you don't have to be a soci…
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Quote:Originally Posted by muppetry So are you arguing that slavery and segregation did not thrive in a free market? It was hardly a free market. Blacks had no legal right to unionize or fight individually for higher wages, or to switch employers…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Splif http://www.nationofchange.org/utah-ending-homelessness-giving-people-homes-1390056183 That's an excellent counter-example that proves the rule... The majority of governments are more like the nutbar Hawaiia…
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solipsismy wrote: » So as an employee of Apple Tim Cook should forego everything about being a human being to focus solely on increasing Apple's profits? Does Tim Cook not get any free time to do as he pleases? Furthermore, standing up for the rig…
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macnewsjunkie wrote: » Have you ever complained about compulsory auto insurance? If not you found a problem in a creative way that never was important to you. I suspect you logic is warped by your prejudice or self interest. Are you kidding m…
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muppetry wrote: » The free-market argument fails catastrophically anyway, by the simple observation that slavery and segregation thrived in a free-market USA before they were outlawed. Segregation was not ended by blacks taking their business el…
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foggyhill wrote: » Maybe I'd even get put in jail for slapping that passive aggressive silliness out of you if you said it in my face.... Yeah, there is freedom of saying outrageous things on the Internet (sic). Live and let live lets the poor,…
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magman1979 wrote: » I think this site should consider NOT publishing ANY articles on this topic any further. The amount of racism, bigotry, discrimination, ignorance, stupidity, and blind religious arrogance being displayed in this discussion t…