I don't believe that conditioning is a choice. In that field, one could only argue that a choice would be to change one's conditioning - meaning...
Juan, I think you are making a fundamental confusion about what one is or likes and what one does. I apologize to the gay people for the...
In Belgium and France (the two legal systems I know besides the US), religious marriage has no legal value at all. Marriage is a contract that can...
Democracy is very difficult to define. Political scientists and philosophers have been trying to do this for years. It is usually acknowledged...
Despite the fact that there are a wide number of very correct things in Quahom1's message, I have to object to the comparison in the following...
I think I have read the following somewhere. In the distant past (and even not so distant), the strenght of a tribe/clan/nation depended solely on...
Ironic that Chief Justice John Marshall (whom the original post is - I presume - referring to), had the same family name as Justice Thurgood...
I would tend to think that Anzac's concept of anarcho-leftism has merit. I don't fear that dilution of the differences that Juan mentions, because...
I am not disagreeing with you Anzac. The potential for descruction of nuclear weapons is scary. It's worst than anything that was made by man...
My understanding of Karma is that it's concept is more limited than the three-fold law (not to be understood in a negative sense). Karma (in short...
I don't mean to be cynical, but can anyone tell me what evil nuclear weapons have caused up to now? Horoshima and Nagasaki were destroyed....
I wasn't entirely clear. When I wrote that I consider the UN to be government, I didn't mean "a government". I see it as a branch, or emanation of...
I consider myself Wiccan, but I don't practice magick. However, I would think that this would tend to make me not completely Wiccan instead of the...
And as far as "controlling people and land beyond its borders" is concerned, I should have used a more generic term than "controlling". What I...
Loads of interestings things. I will first of all answer Susma's request by avoiding it. ;) Actually, my position on the purpose of government in...
I am not necessrily saying that governments should control people or land outside its borders. Just people and land for which it is responsible....
So here are my two cents. I think that the purpose of government should be "to help maximize, whenever possible, the well-being of the people...
Excuse me for being a little late in the reply. Yes, I will participate, time permitting. Juantoo's first proposal as to "what purpose should a...
Anzac and Juantoo3, it seems that both of you researched your subjects intesively and that you agree that there are flaws in both communism and...
That reminds me of what my teacher of military hostory told us at the very beginning of the first Gulf war (I obviously paraphrase): "The people...
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