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by tokenizer 13y ago
I think this shows scientific institutions and advocates in a bad light. Rupert Sheldrake had a great TED talk on the dogma's of modern science, and was even further legitimized when a private council of TED banned the talk. Link: htt
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> A prison sentence isn't meant to be only punishment for the offender Well it does punish them. It punishes them with what many would consider torture, and again, my point is that most of these sentences are for non-violent crimes.
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by tokenizer 13y ago
But still a thousand times better than the traditional left right divide that most of the populace stops learning at.
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Do we really need to punish people with prison for non violent crimes? We might as well call in the Criminal Punishment System, or the Government's Justice System, as it doesn't engender my views of justice, and nor should it for
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Just buy a computer without a webcam, or cover it up. Problem solved. Why would the government advertise this when people can now proactively prevent this sort of intrusion now?
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by tokenizer 13y ago
I do, I was just saying what you're saying. Changes like this are annoying, and a few people will reject the change. That said, As long as theres no sound and the ad is to the side of the actual content/app, its not that big of a
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by tokenizer 13y ago
OR, people won't care, and you and I are the small minority who bother to block them or boycott said websites,
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by tokenizer 13y ago
I can definitely sympathize with your perspective. But that also sounds like a lack of community cohesiveness and unwillingness to improve the area by the local populace. Where I'm from, we have free schools (anarchist workshops where
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Could you explain what you mean? What I meant was that while I believe equality and guaranteed access to basic needs as the goal of humanity and necessary for future growth at some point, I also believe that it's impossible to achieve
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Your previous point: > If your definition of morality is "a system for decreeing who should die" rather than "a system for ensuring everyone lives", you are the problem. Isn't correct. No individualist chooses an
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Nope! You need this piece of paper you see? And, you'll need to give us $25,000 to get it. /s
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> And if some children don't want to get any education, and their parents are ok with it, or just too poor to care or deem it important? I suppose YOU know what's better for them right? The argument is founded on the morals tha
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> What about the kids whose parents won't ever take them to one of these spaces/libraries? What about them? There are plenty of children growing up today that either don't go to school, get expelled, or refuse to learn any
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Agreed. But it doesn't look like our brothers/sisters in arms would afford us the same luxuries does it? To me it sounds like THEY want the monopoly on force to be governed by a majority or consensus, which would then impose taxes
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by tokenizer 13y ago
I don't think they understand that without individual freedoms reigning supreme, we'll have monopolies, lack of innovation, taxes, etc. Oh, and don't forget tracking/passport/entry visas because of taxes. Oh and don
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by tokenizer 13y ago
I think there's an important distinction to make between governance and government. One being the actions that govern things, the other being an institution with monopoly on violence and tax revenue. I think this kid says it all best
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by tokenizer 13y ago
That was my interpretation of what anoncowherd meant. To me, anarcho-capitalists are necessary for reformist action that can expand rights and fight coercion. Any arguments for the abolishment of wage slavery can and should be had, but lets
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Agreed. I've always been a proponent of dual power reformation. We need to definitely move towards having more "commons" and less "Owned by PLC INC". That said, we still can't really agree on cooperating unless
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Well considering the cost of the Dept. of Education is 71.9 a year ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg... ), that would work out to 20$ a year for a population of 360 Million. Adjusted for Yout
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by tokenizer 13y ago
This is the main issue between left and right minded anarchists IMO. I've felt like both sides have been right at different times in my life. That said, you are right. Taxes of any kind, if forced, is theft. If liberal minded individua
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by tokenizer 13y ago
But can't we simply compromise and have public means of production with private residential property? As a libertarian socialist this seems like the best way to move past this debate until we implement such a system. I agree with your
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Again, this is about the political theory of anarchism not the mainstream definition connoting chaos. Thanks for championing debate against your parent post, but to say they make an accurate description of a philosophy that challenged Fran
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Thanks. Anarchists need to come together to champion the real political spectrum we all care about; authoritarianism versus libertarianism. I think many anarchists get caught up in high level theory when really, the best thing we could do w
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Well it's not that they are binded by the left-right paradigm, it's just that they've already agreed that authoritarianism (up?) is worse than libertarianism (down?), and then proceed to debate the finer points of collectivis
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by tokenizer 13y ago
One argument for the 40 hour work week is that we've simply built a complex global society around it. Almost every country in the world adheres to it more or less. We have set store hours at either 8 or 16 or 24 hours, again based on s
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by tokenizer 13y ago
As a web developer who isn't familiar with assembly or any web server more barebones than nginx, what benefits does something like this provide? Speed? Could this be a solution for an extremely simple directory/static file web ser
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Thank you dearly for this. What's your opinion on SSI?
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Funny, but not necessarily true. With PHP, I do as you say and spend, if I know the language, 1 hour max setting up a CRUD list/view/admin. With Ruby, I have to spend, at least 3 months learning the concepts behind the Rails frame
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by tokenizer 13y ago
All governments are a persistent threat. For whatever good they do, they have raised the largest armies, killed the most peoples, and have implemented the most coercive/forceful terms when dealing with other parties (taxes, prison, sub
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> I would love to see the numbers that show a no-questions-asked basic income would be cheaper than the present social assistance monies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome From the article: "She found that o

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