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(06-13-2016, 11:22 AM)Benton Wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#/media/File:Map_of_world_by_intentional_homicide_rate.svg
You're still much safer here than in 70% of the world.
Yeah, but as a member of the most highly developed nations in the world, we should be with no question. It's when you compare us to our peers that things get dicey for us.
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(06-13-2016, 10:19 AM)Belsnickel Wrote:
I'm thinking we blame all the old cowboy movies/tv shows.
Gunsmoke made me a murderer.
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(06-13-2016, 01:56 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Are you married? If so I really want you to tell your wife that banking regulations are more important to you than being allowed to marry her and openly express your love for her.
Really? The piece of paper is the most important thing to her, and not being with her and your ability to provide for the family?
Tell you what, why don't you quit your job and see how long you stay married without an income?
There's only an illusion of personal freedom if you don't have economic freedom. Even Kanye agrees with me.
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(06-13-2016, 02:45 PM)GMDino Wrote:
Did you just use Kanye West as a citation for your argument?
No, I used him as an example that even the brain-dead can get it. That economic freedom => personal freedom is a pretty common view you can find among economists (such as Milton Friedman, a guy you've hopefully heard of). You know, since you have nothing without food, shelter and safety....economic freedom is pretty vital to at least the first two.
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(06-13-2016, 06:27 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: No, I used him as an example that even the brain-dead can get it. That economic freedom => personal freedom is a pretty common view you can find among economists (such as Milton Friedman, a guy you've hopefully heard of). You know, since you have nothing without food, shelter and safety....economic freedom is pretty vital to at least the first two.
Ahh Milton Freidman...a man who had the luxury of weighing the value of economic freedom because his family moved to part of the world that deemed Jews worthy of life. And I'll say again that I'm speaking of an opinion that is my own and I support a political party that emphasizes both personal and economic freedom.
Also, I'd wager equating placing personal freedom above economic freedom as a call for starvation and financial ruin to be a bit of hyperbole, so I'll fight back by saying you obviously want to live in a world where you have the economic freedom to be as solvent as you like...er, provided you weren't born some demographic that is deemed unworthy of legitimacy!
Again, to each his own. This is the jokes and memes thread actually, so I should just let your Kanye West post do the talking for both of us.
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(06-14-2016, 12:16 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Also, I'd wager equating placing personal freedom above economic freedom as a call for starvation and financial ruin to be a bit of hyperbole,
That's exactly what you did with your marriage example. Personal freedom generally follows economic freedom, and starvation/financial ruin is hardly extreme when you look at all the examples around the world of awful economic freedom (Russia, China, Cuba, NK, etc....). If you control the jobs, then you control the people despite whatever illusions of personal freedom they have.
And if you want to chip away at personal freedom, then start chipping away at economic freedom because that's the one leg people have to stand on to effect change.
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Just because all the talk of prayers makes me think of this:
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(06-14-2016, 04:11 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Just because all the talk of prayers makes me think of this:
So I should start stoning people?
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(06-14-2016, 04:30 PM)GMDino Wrote: So I should start stoning people?
Perhaps. Are you without sin?
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(06-14-2016, 07:13 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Perhaps. Are you without sin?
I believe so. Yes.
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