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    Default The philosophy of WM

    Over the years I've been a socialist, a libertarian, a liberal, and now I'm a collectivist cockbreath, but this is what I can remember that I've never changed on:

    Proportional representation
    Free trade and support of immigration
    Opposition to the death penalty

    I've been pretty much everything except for someone who opposes those things.

    So I'm going to start a party, the Free Proportional Death Party. Anyone want to join?
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    Re: your free trade position. Is a willngness to use human slave labor a legitimate comparative advantage?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    Re: your free trade position. Is a willngness to use human slave labor a legitimate comparative advantage?
    Why of course.
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    I stupidly called myself a communist for like 2 seconds while I was 12.

    After I actually started learning about politics, I identified more with the liberals than the conservatives. I actually still have an old shirt that said: Proud Liberal.

    And once I really had a chance to study history and political theory in depth, I realized the limitations of the modern liberal philosophy. Ever since then I have called myself a libertarian. Within the libertarian movement I am a moderate, but I argue as an anarcho-capitalist or a minarchist depending on how I'm feeling that day.

    But overall I believe I do manage to fulfill my primary value in a political belief system: Consistency.
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    I never was a serious socialist. Most of the time whenever I was a socialist I was trying to deal with the problem of having competition and at the same time fixing the inequality problems in our current world. I eventually realized that my Utopia was ridiculous.

    My rhetoric changes more than my actual beliefs.
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    Watermark is just a emo geek!

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    graphs generally follow each other, which means there's not constant factor ya moron

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    Quote Originally Posted by CanadianKid View Post
    Watermark is just a emo geek!

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    Go away Grind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    Why of course.
    Wrong.

    Being the best at slave-driving is not legitimate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    Go away Grind.
    Yeah! Or he'll write poetry at you.
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
    - -- Aristotle

    Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
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    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Yeah! Or he'll write poetry at you.
    I don't write poetry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    I don't write poetry.
    Right, you bludgeon it out towards your enemies with fury and vengeance ablaze in your eyes! Pounding it right into their corneas causing the maximum amount of damage.
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
    - -- Aristotle

    Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
    - -- The Buddha

    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    - -- Aristotle

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    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
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    A greasy firm tit?

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