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I heartily agree, and I wouldn't suggest it's a bad thing. Teenagers are having fun in perhaps not the healthiest way, or the most intellectually stimulating, but it's fun, and I wouldn't want to take that away from some
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I was in school not long ago. I loved my summers, not because I was working, but because I was just having fun. I thought, if I'm not going to have holidays like this in future (after university), why the hell would I spend them workin
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Although there are no encryption export laws in Canada, I do believe that there are key disclosure laws and various restrictions against free speech (in particular certain types of drawn pornography). That may not be a problem, but it'
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>* Free speech (see prohibitions on "hate speech" and "extremism") Don't forget "drawings we find digusting", too.
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Believe me that I would vote lib dem, if they had stances I agreed on outside the issues of personal freedoms, and even some of those they aren't willing to stick up for. I am much more sympathetic to more of Labour's policies.
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Thanks for the answer.
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Then you should be able to say in what way the reason was skewed, or why it's invalid, even if it's out of bounds.
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Isn't hate speech more of a different matter? I can't really see how it relates except under the umbrella of restricting speech, and I'd argue that there are various good reasons for restricting some speech, for example assau
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How might one get experience? For example, I want to try programming for a client, but I don't even know where to find such a thing. I've programmed for a while by myself, but I have no connections. And to get experience, many com
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I'm in university right now, and the reason why I'm here is mainly so that I can get a degree in order to get hired for a job in the field I want. My parents probably got me into it beacuse of the appeal of classical education but
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I along with other "leftists" use it as a short-hand for left-wing politics, generally those who believe in politics usually placed on the left of the left-right spectrum, including but not limited to the abolition of what we beli
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What do you mean?
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"Liberal" doesn't mean left, though. What's 'left' about big business? Or capitalism? Just because "liberal" ideas are frequently found around leftist ones, it doesn't mean that leftism is libera
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>leftist & big business propaganda These seem to be at odds with each other, which makes me doubt that either or both of them is actually the case.
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Bitcoin is a meaningful currency. (If those downvoting would care to explain in what way I'm wrong, it would be appreciated.)
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>1.) In general Star Trek isn't really about physics, its about sociology or (in the better episodes) political science. I've never watched Star Trek, though curiously I know another show set in space about politics, the anime
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Arguably, we don't. The people who are currently supported by representative democracy wouldn't like that to happen. Having direct democracy with instant recall of delegates will likely not be accomplished any time soon, due to &q
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That doesn't surprise me; in Japan there are various Japanese wiki sites, usually with less information than even the Japanese versions of Wikipedia, but still with more articles. Usually they even have comment sections below the artic
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I really think a lot of people are too quick to pass up what could be at least interesting listening experiences. I used to be a very "basic" listener with relatively normal tastes like 80s/90s rock, some classical (it didn&#
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>capitalism wasn't some guy's idea that then got forced on the rest of us by governments Marx has interesting words to say about that.[0] >given a high enough degree of freedom Except for the freedom from having to sell labo
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> Unfortunately, communism showed that greed is a much better motivator which is probably the primary reason capitalism has flourished. I don't think we've given Communism a good go, especially as those societies in the modern
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The obvious solution here is not to have the bytes being illegal.
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>The real culprit is land: we don't accumulate any more of that, so it's rates of return don't vanish. An interesting point to this is the land value tax, advocated by Georgists (whom Einstein was sympathetic to). > It&
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>Wealth is a measure of your ability to do what you would like to do, when you would like to do it - a measure of your breadth of immediately available choice. This ties in well with what Oscar Wilde wrote: "Now and then, in the cou
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The laws of the capitalist mode of production heavily favour accumulation of capital and inheritance of it, Oscar Wilde noted the hideous disparity even in the 19th century, Kropotkin did the same. "In virtue of this monstrous system,
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>Is saying "No" meaning that you need to have a centralized market a.k.a. communism? Communism does not entail centralised markets, or even markets at all. The lower stages might have one or the other or both. There are also th
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I watched it, and I learned that his answer is that such people who do not work would have their income (of $0) supplemented. Although I am not really in favour of the free market, or capitalism in general, this does seem like a fairer syst
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The idea of a negative income tax is one that is new to me, but very interesting. I'm curious as to how it works for those who don't have jobs, though, which is arguably what something like welfare benefits was designed to address
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What in particular do you think has merit, here? Perhaps I'm missing something (it happens, of course) but I can't really see their point. I'll go through each point of GP's post and see what merit I can find therein. &g
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Don't forget anarcho-Communists like me, I think there's a couple of us (or at least Socialists here).

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