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Greed is a disease
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I don't think calling it a disease would be a very accurate description, as a disease is physical. Greed is more along the lines of a mental distortion caused partially by materialism and undoubt... |
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SocietyAtlas Shrugged a Cynical Review
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THX- you are right Adam Smith would shudder!
Littlejohn.
How poorly you understand economics!
Adam Smith talked about the Wealth of Nations. Please see the word 'nation' which is utterl... |
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War & TerrorismAmerican warmongers
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Perhaps we are looking thru very different windows. My window shows a group (CIA, special forces involved in covert operations, etc ) of terrorists who would just as much love to see you blown to smit... |
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What's wrong with the world? How do we change
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I'll drink to that...
As Chris said, solving the problem of the world should start with you. When you sit and try to come up with a solution for the worlds problem you might as well get imbibe... |
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War & TerrorismWhat Are We Doing In Iraq?
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"It is a great falacy that we seek to impose our values upon their societies then wonder what went wrong when they don't accept our ways. Why should they, they are different and will form di... |
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Money
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It seems now you're either for the system or against the system. Can't we just be individuals toward a better world without standing against anything? Perhaps it is because the system has an... |
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ChristianityExcerp: America is not a Christian Nation
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It is a letter of intention, crafted by a people still beholden to a Christian Monarchy for the eyes of that Christian King. It has no bearing on our laws whatsoever. Ah but the next section does infa... |
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IslamWhat's Wrong With Islams Leaders?
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But, yes, the religious conservatives and the political conservatives play the same field, and it is because of this, we must uphold seperation of church and state. If by separation of church and stat... |
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Vegetarianism
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Always a contreversial topic,
My answer is eat more meat; especially that which is very rare.
Eat more meat; there will be more business; more farms; more animals breeding. Want to save some rar... |
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JUST A THOUGHT
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Your hasty generalization does capitalism an injustice. A Mexican man used to go into Wal-Mart when I worked in the dairy department and stole cheese to feed to his son, whom he carried on his shoulde... |
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SocietyWould society be better without money?
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I truly appreciate your views Ironwood.
I guess I'm very idealistic, and it didn't occur to me at the time to question the way society is made up (has been made up in the past, and may well... |
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EconomyWhat can we do to improve international relationships with the USA?
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First, open up Google Scholar.
http://scholar.goo gle.com/schhp?hl=en&tab=ws &q=
Then, I'd recommend searching the following...
"neo-coloni alism"
"neo-colonia lism&quo... |
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Religion & HumanityWhat defines good or evil?
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Good Question! This country is supposedly free, the people are free to live as they choose? If you truely believe in the principle of democracy then all peoplle have the right of chose? Right as long... |
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Society & SociologyWhat makes a person bad?
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The wealthy needs to focus on creating a better country, not building jails, and not free handouts. We need to create incentive to allow investment to be put into more risky adventures to create job c... |
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Freedom
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heres a neat anaology:
I dont know if you've ever played the game monopoly if not its a boarde game about buying properties and trying to win basically.
Imagine a few people sat around the... |
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why do we just go for 'whats best'????
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In many arguments and discussions ive had with people, whether its an argument about socialism vs capitalism, or an argument about the certainty of science, or even an argument on the subject of god,... |
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LawBirthright
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Most Westerner's (I cannot speak for others) tend to rely on this notion of what's fair in life. And I think this comes from our notion of Democracy, with the promise that all should be fair... |
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SocietyThe Capitalism Debate!!!!
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Ok before all the conservatives and socialists and all the rest start up about it im merely asking about its worth and revlevance in modern society. Im not for or against cuase theres good and bad thi... |
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GovernmentMy Democrat amigos MUST READ!
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No offense CT, half the time I do not follow you.
When Revelations says...'Get out of her...' (Babylon was a city of pagans, and sin..and in no way does it represent Catholics. Gee patri,... |
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War & TerrorismRussian invasion of Georgia
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Yes, because invading a province that was a part of your nations land is evil and oppressive. No one has the right to attack a separatist group. Just let them go and take whatever with them. That's th... |
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Anarchy... don't you need a rule for that?
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I think the time will be ripe for systems like anarchy and communism when the human race as a whole becomes more developed. Really, how many of us are unselfish? How many of us really love others, how... |
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Societythe Marxist debate
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Forgive teens atitude, he seems to feel that capitalism is the answer. He is well noted for attributing caapitalism with things which are probaly more related to other factors which he doesn't ad... |
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Money
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For what it's worth...$$$,, Money is the tool and the lubrication that keeps the framework of OUR civilization running. As a human being, I feel indignant about the objectification and limitation... |
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social mobility in the class system
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While there is a problem, I find the problem to be slight. If a person really wants to be wealthy in this (mostly capitalistic country), they can be. Why would a rich man or wonan want to be poor, but... |
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GovernmentIdea of the "perfect" government?
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One has to factor in for greed. The world is ruled by the worst of us, always has been and always will be. Selfish men and women who would watch children starve to obtain a marble counter top. The sam... |
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