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Feb 14 2017 07:55pm
Quote (thesnipa @ 15 Feb 2017 01:52)
Just convince the sheep and they'll repeat anything


That's the issue. I said this long before Brexit and Trump and those events have done nothing to change my opinion. Clearly something is wrong with the system if it produces results like these.

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Feb 14 2017 08:08pm
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That's the issue. I said this long before Brexit and Trump and those events have done nothing to change my opinion. Clearly something is wrong with the system if it produces results like these.


I nominate Comrade napoleon
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Feb 14 2017 08:12pm
Quote (thesnipa @ 15 Feb 2017 02:08)
I nominate Comrade napoleon


Sounds good to me. He was great for France.
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Feb 14 2017 08:21pm
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Are you being serious?


I agree with him. In no other field is everyone's voice equally weighted. Why should people with no knowledge or expertise in politics or ethics be able to make political decisions for a country?
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Feb 14 2017 08:22pm
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I agree with him. In no other field is everyone's voice equally weighted. Why should people with no knowledge or expertise in politics or ethics be able to make political decisions for a country?


Freedom is the freedom to be dumb
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Feb 14 2017 08:24pm
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Freedom is the freedom to be dumb


The freedom to self-govern is unnecessary and counterproductive.
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Feb 14 2017 08:28pm
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The freedom to self-govern is unnecessary and counterproductive.


Perhaps a utopian system where people are monitarily rewarded for good choices but no punishments for bad choices. So bad people are poor and good people are rich. Freedom to not succeed.
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Feb 14 2017 08:47pm
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Perhaps a utopian system where people are monitarily rewarded for good choices but no punishments for bad choices. So bad people are poor and good people are rich. Freedom to not succeed.


Not sure what you mean but that's not what I'm suggesting we do.
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Feb 14 2017 08:50pm
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Not sure what you mean but that's not what I'm suggesting we do.


Ya I know I was just trying to think of a way to keep freedom while grooming the landscape in the universal income future
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Feb 14 2017 08:54pm
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Ya I know I was just trying to think of a way to keep freedom while grooming the landscape in the universal income future


I think rewarding people based on behavior would likely be a mistake and impossible to enforce.
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