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Just wondering if anyone else on this site was in the Byron-Ballina area and happened to be at the Extension Maths meeting at Wollongbar Tavern today.

Utilitarian medical system.

I am exactly the same. I moved to my school at the start of last year - I had a group of friends at the start of last year as well but they all turned their back on my by the end. I'm just floating by myself, keeping my own company. I've always been an odd one out, I've never had a long term...

Makes sense.

But it was limited by coercion. You are free to kill someone, and free to suffer the consequence. That consequence is incarceration by the state; that is coercion by fear of said incarceration. While this is a diluted example the same principle applies.

Fair enough. I don't see how words can have any real power unless they have something to back it up, or to influence the naive masses. To believe a claim simply because it came from authority is naive. Influence is being changed by what someone says because of their status - now to assume the...

The only time I came close to that was when I said that distributing someone else's private details doesn't come under free speech. I defended a hypothetical rape victim's anonymity and privacy. Edit: I'm going to clarify that. It doesn't come under free speech in my opinion because it's merely...

Free speech is free speech. Regulating free speech defeats the purpose of free speech. Because people are stupid and give weight to stupid comments where it isn't due. How is that possible? If power is word, doesn't that illustrate the insane naivety of the people? Should we be trying to protect...

Privacy is another issue entirely. "What if? What if? What if...?" You are bringing up hypotheticals which are irrelevant to what I was defending. All these specific circumstances where my reasoning may fail, which are not as relevant to free speech as you might think. But I will address your...

Who gets to decide that? It's not free speech if it's filtered. Why are we so interested...in things that are not in the public interest? If someone says false, trashy, cheap, or defamatory things, we should just ignore them. Because Andrew Bolt's not worth shit, and we know that (solooooo can...

Andrew Bolt should not be under fire for having an opinion, regardless of what that opinion entails. If it's a trash opinion, we can all disregard it and move on - which we should be doing with Andy here. Don't silence him, just ignore him.

Both are true and good statements but their relevance escapes me.

I like Rudd. I'd vote for him.

Necessarily, though? It depends on who we surrender to.

But what sort of society would we be welcomed into? Maybe the military justification "Fighting For Our Freedom" actually makes sense here.

I'll be honest, I'm kind of lost.

Do you really need to apply gender profiles to the word "bitch"? Getting off topic.

I hate to derail the thread but...how the fuck is that in any way misogynistic?

Least it's not as bad as the Matrix, I don't think.

The ability to hold power should not be the reason to support a leader. Do we need one? What would be his/her role? We have mandatory elections to keep our leaders in check. Other than that I don't see the point.