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Would it change things for you if that kid was your descendant?

>We want money to move around, rather than sit in someone's safe It's just paper. What's wrong with it sitting in someone's safe? We certainly don't want actual productive capital …

I'm not sure quite what they meant, but that doesn't sound quite right to me either. If the currency is stagnant or close to stagnant, the incentive to invest is that you end up wi…

"Without inflation there is no incentive to spend your money" That is quite the exaggeration.

Are you saying Islam doesn't teach Muslims to behave preferentially toward (some of) their fellow Muslims in any way?

>It's something people reach through anti-semitism. Believing some Jews and other enemies of the Nazis (e.g. Allied governments) lie is not the same thing as believing Jews should …

>It's probably because of the Age of Enlightenment in the west that did a thorough self evaluation over a few centuries. I'm not sure what a "thorough self evaluation" would actual…

People are legally mandated to buy third party health care payment plans. How could you possibly expect that to go well?

>You can obviously avoid marriage in the first place, in order to maximize services or avoid taxes. No, you really can't. Do you seriously think the state is going to pay out more …

Is this sarcasm, or are you suggesting that the same institution which set up these perverse rules has done such a great job that it should be given control over the funding of hea…

>but I don't pretend to know or understand their full argument of why it should be regulated One reason might be that they believe that having a culture which is hedonistic toward …

>There's not really a way to counter this mentality by people like us because their worldview is so entirely alien to us As you hint at up above, there are non-religious people who…

>totally legal to be a murderer or thief as long as you don't behave that way. You must know this doesn't make any sense. Murderer and thief are words that describe people who actu…

I'm confused by your comment. >Society bundled behaviour and innate characteristics into a single thing. It seems like that's what you're doing here: >...you don't have any choice …

What I'm asking is more like, if the government microphone in your potted plant hears you coming out as gay to your friends, would that be grounds for criminal punishment?

Laws against inherent characteristics seem to me at least to be worse than laws which ban behavior. Conflating the two in order to make some particular law sound worse seems sort o…

They're pretty obviously different. One is a characteristic of a person, and one is an action that can be taken by a person.

>being gay is illegal in many places. Is that true? Or is it the behavior that's illegal?

>hurt/ anger I think the word you're looking for is "hatred".

>The foundations of libertarianism is a belief that individual rights and human rights are supreme. Trust me, I don't need a lecture on the foundations of libertarianism. I've read…

>I strongly believe some moral systems are superior to others. What experiment can you perform to decide if a moral system is superior to another? >In the moral system What is your…

>Immigrants contribute a lot more than they consume. Some do. Many don't. And even among those that do contribute more than they consume, it seems very unlikely that the contributi…

>Well, the United States is a living example of a country that tried that, and um ... hasn't failed because of it. When did the US A) allow unrestricted immigration of people of no…