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These days the more I hear the left talk the more right I become. I can't stand the left anymore, but then Dave allow the right to speak, an offer up their sober views. After listening to this guy's idea, it was enjoyable, it makes me think, but after all he said, he just reminded me why I'm on the left.
There is a problem with this guy's view. Charity is the safety net? But according to his world view, everyone should act on their own self interest. So if everyone is acting on self interest why should I donate to charity, how dose donating to charity help me? This whole charity being the safety net is a net full of holes, it will not catch everyone that falls.
History remembers, before deposit insurance banks would fail, and people would lose their money. Some bank manage could run off with all the money and the depositors would lose. Some one spreads a rumor that this bank is going under, people would line up at the teller and demand their money, there would be a massive withdraw, and even if the bank was healthy a mere rumor of it being unhealthy would cause the bank to fail. Those cases have happened in the past. Those are the reasons why deposit insurance was introduced.
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+Sean Thomson
The magna carta is about individual rights, its about what a king may, or may not do to a subject. The regressive left believes in group rights not individual rights. The regressive left is perfectly happy to use the state to crush individual rights. So no the regressive left don't support the magna carta.
And you are correct about western culture and philosophy, at least what can be considered the modern west is based on liberalism.
On the difference between what separates a libertarian and a classical liberal. I have already told you, libertarians have a disdain for government, while liberals love government, they want to improve it. Hence the transition from monarchy to a democracy. A libertarian would like to opt out of government, they believe taxation is theft, while a liberal does not. A libertarian believes you are born with certain rights. A liberal position is that your rights are given to you by a government. That is why they forced king John to sign the magna carta, guaranteeing those rights. I have watched Sargon's debate with libertarians on the issue of rights, Sargon intuitively understands this, but he couldn't quiet spell it out, to put it in those words. That's why Sargon have so much trouble distinguishing himself with librarians. I believe that inability to think of rights as given to you by the government is a relic and hold back from a religious backgrounds for most of the western liberals. Most of those early liberals are christians after all. They think of rights as something god given, but in reality rights are given to you by the state, or society at large.
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+mytmouse57
Would you like to live in pakistan? Do you know what kind of a shit hole pakistan is? Why are more people from pakistan wanting to immigrate to the west than the other way around?
You don't believe the majority of the world are shit holes that's because you have never been there. I have have, I traveled I have seen. I doubt you have, or else you wouldn't make that ridicules statement.
Islam is a horrible religion not only because those people that practice it. Its a horrible religion because its doctrines its text are horrible. With its horrible text as a basis, the people who practices it in a horrible way. That's is the fundamentals if islam.
You are in the camp that thinks the west is responsible for all the world's ills. Here is a few examples that run contradictory to that notion. China is a horrible place in the past, because of communism. Now Hong Kong is a better place because it was a British colony, it practices western values, and its more prosperous because of it. Now the rest of china have become better because the chinese government have abandoned communism and embraced western values. The same goes for the middle east, most of that place is a shit hole. There are a few gems that shiny in the region relatively. Israel practices western values, and it is prosperous. Dubai is prosperous, because it some what embraces western values, because it needs to do business with the west. When ever western civilization touches something, the people in that region become more prosperous. You would know that if you traveled. I can say for certain that you haven't traveled because you hold those ignorant views.
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+mytmouse57
sharia is not broad, its not open ended. Its a set of rules that every muslims have to live by. Its a code of law that covers everything from stealing to adultery. As with every law, there are punishments for breaking said law. Now there might be different interpretations of sharia. There are very draconian interpretations that says cut off the hands of thief. And there are softer interpretations that says you can only cut off the hands of thieves if they don't repent or under some conditions. But the bottom line is there are still provisions to cut off hands. The same laws that deal with rape, adultery, gays, apostates. There are harsh interpretations and there are soft interpretations. But even with the softest, the kindest interpretations possible, it is still an horrible barbaric law, there are still hand cutting, stoning and head chopping for minor offenses. 80% of muslims believe they should live by those laws, that is the problem.
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I'm glad you are doing this definition of the terms. Most people keeps yelling those terms socialist, left wing, right wing, conservatives, republicans, liberals, libertarians, communist, marxist, naizs, fascists. No one knows what any of those terms mean anymore, they just identifies as one group and sees the others as enemies.
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+Sean Thomson
I don't think Locke is against a progressive tax system. And Locke's idea of right to life, right to liberty and right to one's own property just means the government can't come and kill you for no reason. The government can't come and lock you up for no reason, and the government can't come and take your property for no reason. He wasn't talking about taxes. Now lets go back to the time of magna carta, even back then the barons who forced king John to sign the magna carta pay a lot more in taxes than the peasants. Back then only the land owners pay taxes, your average serfs don't even pay taxes. You can say that's a progressive tax system when poor's tax rates were 0.
The progressive tax system was done for practical reasons, you can't ask the poor to pay when they have no money. If you ask the poor to pay the same rate as the rich they were starve to death, and that's the government depriving the poor's right to life. Another reason for the progressive tax system and for having wealthfare is that so the poor don't revolt. You can see it as protection money to the poor, there will always be more poor than rich, if you don't pay them, they are going to want communism. Or you can see it as the government's way of giving every citizen their right to life.
Now the regressives they might say they respect the magna carta the same way they say they are for free speech. Its just lip service, in action don't don't respect the magna carta, they are perfectly happy to take away a man's freedom for saying the wrong things, or take their property in the form of a fine for saying the wrong things. You got feminists who says we should do away with the concept of innocent until proven guilty in rape cases, take away the right to a trial. That's against the spirit of magna carta and the very letter of it.
Applying a progressive tax system is not the same as applying an asymmetrical economics to different groups. When you are in a group that the progressive deem, for example you are black, you can't not be unblacked, when you are white, you can not be unwhite. When you are rich you can be poor, so when you become poor, you pay less. When you are poor, you can also be rich, when you are rich you pay more. Its taxes according to means. Its not like the system saying oh you are a aristocrat, we are going to tax aristocrats at this rate, and you are a peasant, we tax peasants at this rate. Having more money or less money doesn't make you belong to a group.
As for libertarian. I don't really know what libertarianism means. I can only go by what those people who claim to be libertarians tell me what they believe. What I describe of libertarians are what I see. No one can tell me definitively what a true libertarian is. But the libertarians that I know are not classical liberals in the sense that liberals want government, they want to improve it. While those people don't seem to want any form of government, or at the very least grudgingly accepts a very small government.
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+Bea Smith
In a civil court you are responsible to bring the suit, you have to hire a lawyer, you have to collect and present all the evidence. In a human rights commission, they are the investigators. The commission acts as the police, some one complain to the commission, the commission do all the investigations, they will sue on behave of the complainer. And the format of the sue is not in any court room, the decider of the suit is another body call the human rights tribunal, which works closely with the human rights commission. Its very incenstrous. There is a case in Canada where the a reporter named Ezra Levant. Who made the statement saying the human rights commision is crazy. And he was sue again by the human rights commissions. The complainer was one of the human rights commission's prosecutor. But the case was not that Ezra Levant said something mean about the prosecutor, the case brought forward was that Ezra Levant say that the commission was crazy. So in essence the commission was suing Levant, but they just put the complainer as one of their prosecutors.
http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/ezra-levant-crazy-prosecutions
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+Brendan Coulter
ofcouse those car salesmen don't like being lied to. But they expect it and accept it, every car salesmen when buying a car themselves knows the other guy is lying to them. They accept it. You are arguing for those that cheat the rules. There will always be people who cheat the golden rule, just like there are christian that don't follow the 10 commandments. That means nothing. It doesn't mean that the golden rule is subjective.
"There is literally nothing objective about the golden rule in and of its self."
That statement just doesn't make sense. You are gonna have to define what objective means to you. Objective as anyone would understand it is that its a set of rules that is well defined, and are not open to interpretation. If you don't like being lied to, don't lie to others. If you don't like being cheated, don't cheat others. Its very objective, there is nothing subjective about it.
The golden rules is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." How is Stalin following those rules in any kind of scale? Stalin lives in luxury while his people live in poverty. We can objectively say, Stalin is not following the golden rule. Yes a man can be brutally honest, and in return he should expect others to be brutally honest with him. if he can dish it out but can't take it, then he is not following the golden rule.
The golden rule stands on its own, its not flexible at all. I have no idea where you are getting this flexibility from. Perhaps from your own inability to follow the golden rule?
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+Botond Szilagyi
"Restructure" the debt, what does that mean? Be specific. Greece had already "restructured"the debt, and that restructuring took the form of defaulting on 50% of the debt. So what he wants to default on another 50% of the debt? Is that his plan? Greece didn't need that second bailout only if he followed the plan of the first bailout, by cutting costs. He didn't want to cut cost, because at that time cutting costs in greece was very unpopular. He was voted into office to stop the cost cutting and to open up government spending again. He is blame for not cutting cost, and spending more money he didn't have, and thus forcing the greek government into a position where they needed a second bailout, or default. Defaulting would mean to leave the EU, leave the Euro. His prime minister didn't want to leave the EU, so they took the second bailout. He is to blame not forcing greece into this choice of either take more money, or grexit.
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