Excellent work, it would be a good idea to make it "sticky" so anyone can see it everytime
+1 for the sticky idea. Would save a lot of time for the newbies... and a lot of effort for us answering their questions. |
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I'll agree that democracy by itself is not good enough. You need to follow a good moral code along with it. Does not have to be a religion per se, but at least a Bill of Rights type agreement.
Morality is just a matter of what is right and what is wrong. Even children know that stealing is wrong. Some day kids might think otherwise. Morality as a concept is changing: some things become moral, some - immoral. |
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I bet a Jr. Member will win this - they always do  Well it IS it the newbie section. So the smaller the better but newbies usually have a very small amount of posts. |
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I'm not saying I think it's moral. Just people then thought it was.
Years down the road people will look back at taxes and say the same thing. Slavery has existed for a long long time. It shows that it's actually working. How else are you going to pick cotton, peanuts, control Negros. -actual text was Taxes have existed for a long long time. It shows that it's actually working. How else are you going to build bridges, roads, control companies from doing whatever they wish to do.- FTFY Please don't edit my posts. Also slavery disappeared from the scale in Moral while taxes didn't. |
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I'm not saying I think it's moral. Just people then thought it was.
Years down the road people will look back at taxes and say the same thing. Taxes have existed for a long long time. It shows that it's actually working. How else are you going to build bridges, roads, control companies from doing whatever they wish to do. |
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So slavery was perfectly moral?
In certain times yes. At least you stand by your religion of the majority committing attrocities. It explains much of what is wrong with the world. I'm not saying I think it's moral. Just people then thought it was. |
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Yeah that's a certain 'bug' of the human brain.
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It is not stealing if a majority agree.
Wow. What if the majority is ok with rape? Then it's going to be legalized. Legal does not equal moral. Morality is defined by the majority or the most powerful people. Many people thought that questioning the Catholic Church was immoral in the Middle ages. So slavery was perfectly moral? In certain times yes. |
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It is not stealing if a majority agree.
Wow. What if the majority is ok with rape? Then it's going to be legalized. Legal does not equal moral. Morality is defined by the majority or the most powerful people. Many people thought that questioning the Catholic Church was immoral in the Middle ages. |
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I wish I could. I tried a couple of times but didn't succeed.  Well I believe the closest I've been to lucid dreaming was making a dog appear and attack me at which point I got startled out of the dream even my legs went up That doesn't really sound pleasant.  |
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It is not stealing if a majority agree.
Wow. What if the majority is ok with rape? Then it's going to be legalized. |
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Never played baseball, never watched a game of it so I don't really have a favorite team.  |
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Same. I stopped at taxes. And taxes are needed unless we want a complete anarchy.
The question is not whether taxes are needed. It is whether or not stealing is immoral even if called something else. If you feel that stealing is necessary for society, fine...like Malcolm X saying that the ends justify the means. It is still immoral. It is not stealing if a majority agree. You always have the choice not to pay and hide your cash and go to jail or move somewhere where you don't have taxes(like living on a boat in the middle of the ocean). Or emigrate to some remote and small country. |
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Same. I stopped at taxes. And taxes are needed unless we want a complete anarchy.
The question is not whether taxes are needed. It is whether or not stealing is immoral if called something else. If you feel that stealing is necessary for society, fine...like Malcolm X saying that the ends justify the means. It is still immoral. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. It really depends on the case. You can run away from the thieves. It's called emigration however I doubt you'll find a place that doesn't have such thieves. |
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Get out of newbie jail, then trade.
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You received 1 uBTC from me per each request. If you were withdrawing, you should've gotten more than the transaction fee is. Send a message with the subject info to cadmium if you want to check your balance. P.S. Everything accumulates in your account and you withdraw it to an address once you reach a certain amount. |
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