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If material such as and relating to child porn, criminal conduct, bomb making, drugs, suicide, health damaging cults and items and ideas that objectively run contrary to the maximisation of societal welfare is censored then all is well. I trust that the system is able to keep the technocrats in...

In what way did government intervention materially cause the sub-prime crisis? The crisis is not indicative of government over-intervention but of the lack of prudential regulation. It was not caused by central planning but by behavioural tendencies or 'irregularities' of individual agents that...

Seriously though Iron, I don't know why you'd prefer a white woman in power. If you take away political correctness, there are at least real differences, from a physiological perspective, between men and women which materialise in certain strengths and weaknesses and by extension, appropriate...

You can have your Tiger Woods...

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/principal-rues-loss-of-honour-courses/2008/09/29/1222650989544.html lol at the pun.

Views on foreign policy are inevitably blinded by patriotism. With respect to other areas I think a moderate, non-committal stance is politically acceptable.

This is one of the reasons why Obama had to lose this debate. He could not have stated the truth that Ahmadinejad is not an evil lunatic and that Russia was right to take action against the genocide in South Ossetia, since such viewpoints are politically unacceptable to the American public and...

I agree but he came across as powerful because the focus of the debate was on an area which he was most familiar with.

McCain was always going to win on national security.

Sometimes they refer to themselves in third person and add "as he then was".

Retribution is a major part of criminal justice at least from the victim and/or their family's perspective.

But drug trafficking for instance has the potential to destroy people's lives and cause other social consequences (e.g. crime by drug addicts, family breakdown, moral decay). Of course there is a strict distinction in mens rea, but on a broader perspective there's no distinction if the motive is...

Furthermore the per capita emissions by China and India are pretty much insignificant. On a per capita basis (which, from a 'human rights' perspective would be the only fair measure) I'd guess that the US and Australia are among the culprits...

Whether the taking of a life is wrong depends on the circumstances. If a soldier kills to defend his country for instance that would not be 'murder'.

Okay serious reply: Be active and engage in some form of sport or physical exercise. Swimming and jogging are highly recommended. Focus on the positives and do something you're good at (e.g. play a musical instrument, or engage in a particular recreational activity). Intimate your feelings...

Interesting. Great that he went through the experimental economics findings of Fehr & Gachter.

More of what Australia wants to hear.

Correct. Higher crime rates are also likely to bolster community and legislative approval of capital punishment.

Well he's no expert on the nature and extent of moral hazard, for instance. So really his rants on how things would be better without government intervention are simply ideological drivel.

Ron Paul is talking nonsense. I say keep ideology out of economic decisions.