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Is that really the hill you want to make your last stand on?

Well, corporations have been doing this all along. Not that it is the right thing to do.

Maybe the Fed should have intervened in the market to control prices because i don’t see how individual businesses operating in a free market economy would not respond to inflation pressures in the market.

First, two disclaimers. I am not an economist and I am ignorant of the happenings in the US of A. But I know two things, in a free market economy, business are price takers unless where they are monopolies where they dictate both price and output. They exist to make profit. And when there is more cash in the economy, prices will go up. Now those…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Davis wrote:

speech not being violent.

Surely speech can only be harmful, not violent. Violence is physical. To call words “violence” is to devalue the word “violence”.

Why, I agree with you on this. Speech can’t be violent, but we live in that age where words no longer mean what we thought they meant a while back.

jakelafort wrote:

Bearing in mind that digression is the oxygen of intelligence and bearing arms is becoming a stale topic how is it that dopers are skinny? I want to eat like three horses and a Naked and Afraid contestant when i partake.

I guess addicts don’t eat too well so they remain skinny

Unseen wrote:

@davis The Anarchist Cookbook is banned in the United States? No, you can even pick it up on Amazon. I’m not arguing in favor of pedophilia, which should be legal in practice. I do think that NAMBLA shouldn’t be presenting their arguments in favor of buggery. I’m opposed to slavery but I can’t agree with outlawing discuss…

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When they were being checked-out the following morning (after breakfast), the bill for my English taxpayer friend came to zero but the bill for my visiting tourist friend came to double that amount

You have a way with words, Reg

To build on the argument by Reg, there is this portion from the work of Mangasarian on the resurrection. It’s a conversation between a skeptic and disciple/ believer

How long have you known Jesus?

I have known him for one year.

And I for two.

And I for three.

Has any of you known him for more than three years?

No.

Was he with his apostles…

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I guess Ivy has now listened to it, can she summarize the evidence presented for those of who don’t have three hours to consider.