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mstodd
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Comment #16250307
I say they are all nonsense. I also don't trust people I've never met to make decisions for people they've never met. That aside, it's wrong to tell someone what they can and can't…
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Comment #16174325
Yes, tech never 100% goes away, you can still find brick and mortar movie rental stores.
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Comment #16166199
Careful badmouthing sports stadiums in WI.
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Comment #16104070
The Bitcoin product is garbage, just like in a pyramid scheme. People buy in to Bitcoin so they can profit from the people who buy in later and not because there's a valuable produ…
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Comment #16077001
How is tether not stable?
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Comment #16076984
USDT doesn't fluctuate does it?
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Comment #16050337
If someone earns a ton of money via voluntary trade (making someone else's life better), it's immoral for them to keep what they earned, but it's fine to use a gun to take it away …
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Comment #15212559
It's really sad what citizens got when marijuana got legalized. Just more laws telling you how you're allowed to live your life, and drug taxes finding schools.
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Comment #15212546
I certainly think it shouldn't be taxed, or at least not more than any other plant. And it should be off the books entirely, not "legalized".
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Comment #15205163
Both scenarios are bad in different ways, but Colorado is probably better. Best would be to have no regulation and especially no taxes.
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Comment #15205156
Ideally a business should be able to sell whatever it wants to whomever it wants. I'd argue that some US states that have legalized it are worse off than when it was illegal. The r…
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Comment #14855246
you say scammed, I'd say they're making risky purchases. People should be allowed to take risks
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Comment #14855235
Same here. People need to pick up a basic Economics book. The government is not here to protect people, it's here to give people of influence special privileges. People should be a…
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Comment #14610182
Regardless of the outcome, gaining that outcome through legislation (force) is immoral. It's sad that these days the default for a group to get what they want is to use a third par…
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Comment #14270052
I was confused because I really thought you were referring to the federal government
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Comment #14252776
list examples of 'good' regulation
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Comment #14252755
I believe the government is immoral, and people and businesses should be free to create and trade unregulated. Even if I thought net neutrality was 'good' for consumers and busines…
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Comment #13649108
So what if it's fast and easy? Plastic bags are incredibly efficient. They're popular for a reason. If you want to keep people impoverished, this is how you do it
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Comment #13594737
You don't mind the fact that you're just taking money from people who earned it to give to others who didn't?
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Comment #13282297
I think it would be nice to not have the government involved in my food decisions in any way. I'm going to let people I've never met tell me what I should eat instead of looking at…
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Comment #13269159
You as an individual should pay more because you're an idiot
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Comment #13268219
People want virtue like they want anything else: quick and cheap
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Comment #13259592
It's not because they were constructed to survive a natural disaster?
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Comment #13207010
You /might/ replace 'unfair' with 'immoral'. Lots of things in life are unfair and are just a part of life, so there's a mentality that unfairness is just a part of life. Hopefully…
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Comment #13108277
Other people don't share your values, nor should they, nor should you expect them to. I would rather have more humans working these jobs, but minimum wage laws prevent that. There'…