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The essential problem that comes from mentality is that moral emphasis is put on that which you didn't do rather than what you have done. If I do not aid a beggar, am I responsible if he dies? If I do not pay for a child in Africa, did I kill him? Essentially, if I do not, am I responsible for...

It's not a right to life, it's a right to one's own life. The problem with claiming virtue on need, or claiming any sort of vindicated force, is that you're working against people's values to enforce your own. If you want to help out the poor, that's your own perrogative, but mandating that...

The issue of children in a free system is a tough one. But let's imagine it as such: having children is a desire created by evolutionary process to propogate the human species. Many people see this as a more overbearing instinct than that of self-preservation, and choose not to partake in it...

Then the work is not done. It will be done if both parties decide it's profitable to do so. The worker and the employer determine the value of the work, the worker in how much he's willing to work for how much pay, and the employer in how much he's willing to pay for how much work. If there...

This debate hinges on the misconception that a governmental body, by virtue of it's existence, is entitled to the works of those under its supervision, in spite of consent. It's based around the assumption that Ivory Tower intellectuals make up the whole of that we elect, that because the...

I played F-Zero GX for 48 hours straight. Would have gone longer, but my Gamecube died. (Had to get a new one.) I sold my NES at a church auction. (I was six, okay!?) I could never get more than two hours into Morrowind. Then I would restart. Done this about nine times now. I've never...