Hi American here I just wanted to clear some stuff up,
1.) Most people here are not religious fundamentalists. Most people claim to believe in "a god", but their god's traits and personality conveniently happen to form fit to the bearer of said beliefs.
This is how it goes down pretty much; One person argues his bible says this and such, the other disagrees, takes a black pen, and blacks out that line from the bible, and the other one does likewise until they both have a bible they're comfortable with. Which ends up being a few lines like,
"“You shall
not commit adultery [if your marriage isn't working out. I mean, who are we to judge?]." Exodus 20:14
"You
shall not [can] lie with a male as with a woman. It is
an abomination [no big deal]." Leviticus 18:22
“'Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?'” -Pharisee's
“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. [And what's wrong with eating with tax collectors? They're totally cool with me.]” -Jesus
Mark 2:13-17
2.) I didn't have any fluoride in my water, and I'm... An anarcho-capitalist... on bitcointalk... Totally unrelated, SHUT YOUR FACE HOLE.
3.) No one can stop anyone from marrying anybody or anything anywhere for whatever reason. The real debate, though nobody realizes it, is whether or not people should get tax breaks for their personal relationships.
On the one hand less taxes for the government is awesome, on the other hand, is it really ok for the government to sanction certain relationships over others?
I say either let everybody put their spouse down whether it's a man(s), woman(s), or goat, or else get rid of government endorsed marriage altogether. (Against straight marriage!!!)
4.) Your government sucks too. You're seriously delusional if you think you're government has all of your best interests at heart and isn't intrinsically a morally bankrupt institution like every other government (including the US government.)
5.) Education is totally overrated. For the most part it's not necessary. Get rid of all publicly funded education and let the free market market decide what kind of education is needed. Could be more, could be less. I don't particularly care if we're #1, or #543.
6.) Attrition is the best way to beat any larger force. When you have a gigantic army that you move into a hostile environment you have to maintain supply lines. Fuel, ammunition, tanks, helicopters, jets, and bombs. That's expensive! A cleverly run guerrilla warfare at home can make it so economically costly and demoralizing that an invading army just can't keep it going for more than a few years unless they just want to out and out commit genocide on the entire United States.
Look at how Che Guevara took Cuba, or the Vietnam war, or the revolutionary war.
That said, having an armed populace is very very important. People always say civilian weapon's are useless against an army, but it's just. not. true. There's a reason why Mao, Hitler, and Stalin all favored a disarmed general population (Particularly targeting political opponents.), and it's not hard to see why!
http://www.mercyseat.net/gun_genocide.html
