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Are you capable of saying something i DON'T agree with?
keep it on stefbot :)
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@Jilly4Liberty I think you'll find that a consistent application of the principle of non-aggression is truly mind-blowing.
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Stef - as always I appreciate your logic and command on the language to get your point across. However, in this case, I agree with the caller. I'd say the plague is going to run its course. Hopefully, when it passes through the US at full speed, I will be out of its path.
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Gosh, Stef...you're like a multivitamin for the brain. Thanks always!
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Informed political action, standing for something against State abuse, getting involved..what's wrong with that?..Ostricisation..is sticking your head in the sand in this context... Ron Paul 2012(and whoever ELSE wants to stand and fight for freedom.)
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@DavidGHayes91 you're welcome, thank you for letting me know, and best of luck with your studies my friend!
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Chimps kill for fun. Cats kill for fun. I've seen those little psychopaths torture a lizzard for half an hour. Like playing with a little toy. Chimps and apes roam together in bands and look for other groups to kill.
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I should say, "...un-conscious human behavior, in an alienated statist society." Furthermore, it is an error to confuse the organized warfare of states, in which conflict is based on ideology (patriotism) or the territorial supremacy of a ruling class, with the violence of animals, which confronts a biological need or threat. The lazy assumption that humans are basically violent is a pernicious social Darwinist misapprehension of human nature, masquerading today as "evolutionary psychology".
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As to the argument over human nature: yes, some animals do appear to kill for reasons other than eating and defense, though they do not reflect on that instinctive behavior as "pleasure". However, it is a mistake, made by Konrad Lorenz and other social Darwinists, to reduce the behavior of humans in society to base instinct, as if thousands of years of history (religion, nationalism, and further developments) had not occurred. It is these customs which form the basis of conscious human behavior.
fyi, it was Mary Wollstonecraft who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). She was married to anarchist philosopher William Godwin who wrote An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) (though both objected to the institution of marriage). They were the parents of Mary Shelley, who was the author of Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus (1818). She married the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, author of The Masque of Anarchy (1819). Read these works!
Iatrarchy 2 months ago
@Iatrarchy thank you, you are quite right, I appreciate the correction
stefbot 2 months ago