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#1 GIJames248
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This might be unexpected if we didn't have national social security and welfare already in place, but really, looking at the state of property rights from the last fifty years, this is totally predictable.

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Cannot think of anybody currently living, but Ludwig Wittgenstein and C.S. Lewis are both amazing.

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#3 GIJames248
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Microevolution: yes, certainly true

Macroevolution: probably not, but who knows for sure

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#4 GIJames248
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Well, this is totally unsurprising. It's the government after all, and it's the Obamas after all, and it's Americans and food after all.

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#5  Edited By GIJames248
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Interesting. Looking at my peers that makes a lot of sense, but it is odd that Millennials are less environmental. Also odd that they are less trusting of others, but more leftist instead of libertarian, but then again, when have people ever been all that rational.

I'm:

  • Politically libertarian
  • Religiously orthodox Christian
  • Believe in God
  • Support homosexual equality and marriage
  • Don't see substantial difference between the two main parties except in degrees (i.e. the Repubicans are slightly more considerate of autonomy, primarily fiscally; both are authoritarian, highly corrupt, and at odds with most fundamental human rights)
  • Don't trust people at all but am compelled ethically to try to love them
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#6 GIJames248
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Necessary?

Sort of hard, because 'religion' is a vague and broad word. Theism/deism is very likely true (certainly fulfilling inference to the best explanation), but religions are extremely diverse in how they view god. So to the true religion, 'awesome', and to the rest, 'tragic'.

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Deism is almost a philosophical necessity, so I have no issue with it being there, but as others have noted it is a largely inconsequential part of the anthem so it doesn't particularly matter.

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#8  Edited By GIJames248
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About freaking time, now if we could only get Medicare and Social Security cut to pre-Great Depression levels this country might have a chance.

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#9  Edited By GIJames248
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Honestly, and people are going to freak out over this, ok. Georgia can do what it wants, and restoring business owners the right to conduct their businesses how they want is essentially just restoring their basic (formerly, inalienable) property rights to them. That said, businesses will in the long run hurt themselves if they get to nuts with this, but that's what free markets are for. Frankly, a gay business owner should have the right to deny a fundamentalist Christian business if they should so want, and its kind of nuts that a free country doesn't allow that.

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#10 GIJames248
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Because state rights are so 1800s.