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  1. A link about the copyright posts option (as found on the page for editting your profile): http://forum.ObjectivismOnline.com/index.php?showtopic=3421 I decided to graciously change my copyright setting to 'Must Attribute'. Eternal, I forgot to comment earlier, that I laughed so hard at the pictures you posted near the start of this thread.
  2. It's not my phrase, anyhow. I've seen that one tossed around by atheists for a while, and out of curiosity, I just googled to see if there was a 'source' for it. Here's one from 1911: The Preacher and the Slave (Joe Hill)
  3. Excellent, Volpex. I disagree about marijuana being harmless -- I don't know about actual proof of brain cell death, but I believe escapist, mind-altering substances to be harmful to mental well-being -- but I don't believe this should make marijuana illegal, when potentially more harmful substances (alcohol, tobacco, hard pain-killers) are legal. Whatever the effect of marijuana, I believe in a person's right to do what he wishes to himself, if it is harmless to others. It can be argued that a person who is high could harm others, but I'll refer back to my previous statement that worse things are already legal (alcohol) to answer that. If a worse substance can remain legal, it's illogical that a lesser harm is illegal. Ideally, no one would use any mind-altering substance outside of controlled conditions, but that is not a matter the government can enforce. That is a matter of mankind learning personal responsibility. The bottom line is that the war on drugs is a failure. It is too costly, and it's not stopping the trafficing or use of drugs. It's reaping no benefits for our country as a whole. A better solution would be to stop drug trafficing by terrorists by allowing Americans to grow and distribute their own marijuana. The economic and social benefits of this would be enormous. I am doubtful that this would increase drug use. In my personal experience, anyone who wants weed has no trouble finding it, as things are today. We would just be assuring that tax money formerly spent on the war on drugs would be freed up for more valuable purposes, and that our current drug users would be buying American more often.
  4. I'm from north Alabama. Close enough?
  5. My remark was fully sarcastic criticism of the idiocy of these supporters of extremist Islam. To clarify where I stand: I am an American woman who enjoys living in a mostly secular, mostly capitalist republic. I have read the Quran. I have no reason to support Islam, and especially no reason to support extremists of it who take every word of the 'prophet' and Imams literally. I also have no sympathy for a member of a group of people who readily forfeit their lives for promises of pie in the sky when they die. I think Mandrake and Samoht make good points, about the goals of the captors. Thinking people of any culture should likely view any such propaganda with skepticism, but it is more likely to have an effect in the Muslim world, where media is biased and controlled to the fullest extent that it can be.
  6. Those fighters of freedom who were holding Jill Carroll hostage show some excellent forethought and maturity with the schemes they mastermind. Take a woman hostage, force her to praise your cause at gunpoint, then let her go home so that she can renounce the praise and point out how it was coerced under threat of death? Brilliant! People will be flocking to their cause now.
  7. It is my understanding (mostly gathered from the writings of Pelletier) that NatAms wish to remain separate from their state laws and American society at large. They want as much autonomy as possible, and the preservation of a separate and isolated culture. If they don't wish to be integrated, that should be respected. Those residents of the reservations who wish to move into the outside American society are granted that freedom, as far as I know.
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