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The UK is right behind America! It's too bad. I have a selfish reason for wanting fat people to lose weight: so I can date them. Please, fat people: increase the size of skinny peoples' dating pool!

VICTORY!

Fascinating. I think it's really stupid the Soviets immediately took his body and burned it - you'd think they'd know better. We need verification of his death with photographic evidence! Maybe the Soviets thought he'd come back to life like Rasputin or something. So they had to make extra sure he was dead.

Yossarian, I need some good recipes for goat. I tried making goat jerky once but the filthy Jews down the street complained about the smell.

For some strange reason people get offended whenever you suggest kids getting paid to make good grades. They think it's "bribery" or something. As it stands, there's no incentive to make good grades. It's all about giving the teachers more money.

They'll figure out a way to make it happen. Just borrow the money at artificially low interest, and die before you need to pay it back. And remember to pass all the requisite laws transferring your post-mortem debt on your offspring.

Trips to the bathroom would be so much more fun!

Silence, safety, and the way light falls through the leaves on a spring morning.

I have great respect for illegal immigrants who are willing to work dirty jobs. Hell, I shared a jail cell with two of them. They're some of the nicest people you'll ever meet, only trying to contribute to society so they can send some money back to their families. And I'm not ashamed to say I even helped a family of illegals find work at a local restaurant. The man could barely speak English but I've never seen someone so hard-working and grateful. So fuck the government.

:laugh3: My greatest childhood memories are sitting at an uncomfortable desk memorizing historical dates and multiplication tables, while the birds were chirping outside. Please! More!

Okay, let's say all that is true. So what? You can't make a moral claim in science, you can only make observations. The idea that the Earth should never assume a certain "average temperature" is an almost Christian way of thinking. "God never intended this to happen". I prefer warmer weather. Does that make me a bad person? While this may cause some extinctions, many species thrive in warm weather.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/the_dead_end_kids_AnwaWNOGqsXMuIlGONNX1K Obama's biggest supporters are left out to dry. Again, we see that government is primarily an agent of wealth redistribution - steal from the young to give to the old. The old who have had their entire lives to save, and who are continually looking for ways to make other people pay for their medicine, their homes, their retirement, their crappy piece-of-shit cars, their children's education, their etc. And this is what they'll be doing while you're working your ass off for the next 50 years: Enjoy.

There is no such thing as a "global temperature". You can't just average all the surface temperatures and claim you've created a new data set. That's silliness, and any real scientist (who's not being funded by the taxpayer) will tell you that.

I love your avatar, Yossarian. :D

Al Gore's efforts are just starting to work! More money! Quickly!

Chris, marry me. Oh, and get me an orange mocha frappucino while you're there!

Nathan's awkward smile.

Right, people often forget that welfare is like being paid for doing nothing. So if you eliminate the minimum wage, and eliminate welfare, you get two things: 1. Unlimited available jobs (because people are always willing to hire a helping hand when they can pay them whatever they want) 2. Potential for 0% unemployment Because labor becomes so cheap in this scenario, the cost of producing basic goods & services plummets, and is suddenly within reach of the lower-class. Eliminate sales tax, and the poor become productive, the dollar becomes more valuable, unemployment vanishes, and everyone is happier. But this will never happen, because it's too simple and it makes people self-reliant. The government thrives on the illusion that poverty is inevitable in a society. That way people will continue to vote for the politicians who speak most eloquently about "helping the poor", but who've never actually given a dime of their own money to the cause.

:laugh3: Smart man!

99% of people are like this, you're not alone. It's not laziness or procrastination, it's hesitation. "Whatever you dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe

Because they offer to work for less than Americans, who are bound by minimum wage laws. The enemy here isn't the foreigners, it's the government. End the minimum wage, end "citizenship", and watch the value of the dollar rise.

I know that because it's based on logical, empirical evidence! Also, arguing (or discussing) philosophy is one of the most rewarding & enriching ways to spend your time, in my view. ;)

True, the government is a den of thieves and vipers, many of which are brainwashed into believing they work for the greatest charity of all time. Of course, they're wrong. The theory that you can steal a little from some people in order to improve the lives of others is utilitarian. Even if it were true (which it's not) it's still wrong. So if you tell me, "You must kill one person, in order to save the lives of two people", I would still refuse to kill - the ends do not justify the means, because praxeologically there is no distinction between means and ends. I am not an immoral person for refusing to kill one, in order to save two from accidental or other-inflicted death. Most people don't get this, though, because they aren't taught philosophy correctly. So they go on living their lives believing in such things as moral "grey areas", because it helps the parasites in society to perpetuate this myth.

Well there's nothing ethically wrong with looking at things in different ways - but it's when you enforce your illogic using physical coercion, violence, or the threat of violence (extortion), that you run into problems. This is praxeology. Your thoughts are your own - what matters are your actions. So what makes theft by a criminal with a gun different from theft by a government official (taxation)? Nothing, praxeologically speaking.

Philosophy is very important, as long as it is objective. Most philosophy is just mental gymnastics, but the important (applicable) branches are Objectivism and Praxeology. From these we can find "universally preferable behavior", which is a rational foundation for secular ethics. So whether you're an Atheist, or Muslim, or Christian, there are universally-applicable ethics you must follow or risk being illogical. But for most people, being illogical isn't a problem at all - in fact, it's a plus!