The economy involves regular people through the process of buying and selling just as much as business owners. A car company couldn't stay afloat...
I suggest that next election year we randomly gather 500 men and 500 women with IQs in the top 1 percentile. (That is, their IQs are higher than...
Thank you sir. I find this meme that taxes are meant to "punish the rich" to be quite silly. Taxes are for paying for stuff. That's all.
That's the most mature thing I've ever heard anyone say on this forum.
Tall people are not asked to reach for higher shelves than short people because society hates the tall. We ask the tall to reach for higher...
I'm an uncircumsized male. I consider forced circumcision a form of torture that ought to be illegal.
How do you feel about the statement: The Government Has No Business in the Bedrooms of the Nation?
I don't doubt it, but I think the economic effects of the age of slavery and colonialism were ubiquitous throughout the West. I am only...
Are you suggesting Sweden didn't benefit at all from slavery and colonialism? That sounds rather far-fetched.
Yeah, the list of qualities I described is most characteristic of modern day France, Britian, or Scandinavia, but one must remember that 21st...
I interpreted the question to mean: is the Western culture of classical liberalism, built on principles such as democracy, liberty, gender...
There is no more effective way to help North Koreans. I am making the assumption that we are interested in helping people in general rather than...
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Intergenerational justice means ensuring that future generations don't have to live with burdens passed on from us to them: debt, destruction of...
To say the American government spend a lot of money on foreign aid is inaccurate. Official development aid is only about 0.2% of the nation's GDP....
How much tax I would be willing to pay depends on how well the government's laws and services lower the cost of living, raise the quality of life,...
Your humanitarian spirit is admirable. But do you realize there are 1.2 billion people worldwide who live of less than a dollar a day? And most of...
Well there are plenty of ways to prove one's altruism other than fighting your countries wars. An equally valid benchmark would be to suggest that...
I say no. I am not saying no because I believe that America should only defend its own interests. Neither am I saying no because I believe in the...
What you're saying here is that the ideal voter is one who votes altruistically rather than selfishly. That's a debate in of itself.
I don't understand why everyone thinks of the founding fathers as possessing superhuman intelligence anyway. If they were foolish enough to think...
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As I understand it, the system was created because it was the most practical way to have elections done at the time. Source:...
Obvious loaded question is obvious.
I'm in favour of Scandinavian style welfare states, but I also think people have a responsibility to do their fair share for society. So no, I...
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