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General / Finally! Incontrovertible Proof That Fiat Money Has Real Value.
« on: July 09, 2009, 06:20:30 AM »2
General / The UN Promoting Free Market Solutions?
« on: June 30, 2009, 05:35:42 AM »
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227143.100-africa-alone-could-feed-the-world.html
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If further evidence were needed, it comes in a second report, launched jointly by the FAO and the World Bank.
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As in Thailand, future success will come by using agriculture to lift Africa's smallholder farmers out of poverty, aided by strong government measures to guarantee their rights to land, say both reports.
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The Polling Pit / The Principle Behind Minarchy
« on: May 07, 2007, 03:49:56 PM »
Minarchy is based on the idea that liberty is so precious that we must use the tyranny of the State to enshrine and protect it from a populace that is too foolish and immoral to appreciate it. I submit that the inherent contradiction of such a system as well as the low regard for human nature that the implementation of this kind of system implies will ultimately result in a conflict that will lead to either the destruction of liberty and the enshrinement of the State with the Orwellian "logic" that "Slavery is freedom." or to the dismantling of the discredited State as it gives way to the true liberty of a system of non-monopolistic, competitive, voluntary governments.
Any comments? I'm ready to debate.
Any comments? I'm ready to debate.
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The Polling Pit / A test of what you really believe about the nature of consciousness:
« on: February 15, 2007, 07:22:47 PM »
If you could download all your memories, feelings, personality and thoughts into an android body with a quantum computer based brain, that would be somehow be known to be conscious and experience itself as being you only with a vastly improved intelligence and a perfect never aging body, capable of 100 times as much pleasure, would you do it if that entailed the death of your original self?
If your original self still lived, would you consider your new self a separate person?
If the original you was forced to choose to save either your new self or your old self from death, who would you save?
If your original self still lived, would you consider your new self a separate person?
If the original you was forced to choose to save either your new self or your old self from death, who would you save?
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