Cobol - Re: US Presidents; an outside view WAS: Any comments? (Evolution

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Re: US Presidents; an outside view WAS: Any comments? (Evolution

Donald Tees

2006-04-17, 6:55 pm

LX-i wrote:
> Alistair wrote:
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> You're not the first to bring this up. *What is wrong* with people
> benefiting from the the successes of their parents? Sure, envy is a
> universal human trait - but just because you're jealous doesn't mean you
> have a right to the money their parents (or grandparents) *earned*.
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Beacuse as soon as you have a method of producing even a small rate of
return, but without any death/end mechanism, it is only a matter of time
until one entity has it all. It may take several generations, but it is
inevitable.

Donald

Donald Tees

2006-04-19, 6:55 pm

Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:14:28 -0400, Donald Tees
> <donald_tees@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> Or would you use an ambulance service that is subsidized by the state
> to get them to the hospital? Along with public roads - paid for by
> the state? With physicians who went to state subsidized schools?
> Without worrying about invaders blocking your road because of state
> paid-for National Defense?
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> Virtually everybody wants *some* socialism. (We all are conservative
> and we all are liberal as well, if we do enough searching for issues).

Yes, I agree. It is finding a balance that is difficult.

Donald

Donald Tees

2006-04-25, 6:55 pm

Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:35:54 -0400, Donald Tees
> <donald_tees@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> I didn't understand. No, I don't. But let's clarify what
> "universal laws" means.
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> Does it mean that all laws apply equally to children and for adults?
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They do in Canada, I do not know in the states.

Donald

Donald Tees

2006-04-25, 6:55 pm

Pete Dashwood wrote:
> "Donald Tees" <donald_tees@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Do Canadian kids get jailed if they cheat on their taxes :-)?
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> Pete.
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Perhaps. The rules are the same as for an adult, though.

Donald

Donald Tees

2006-04-26, 6:55 pm

Richard wrote:
> Howard Brazee wrote:
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> It may be its value that is determining its usage, not the other way
> around.
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> That doesn't make the book more valuable. You got your $10 value from
> reading it and that reduced its value down to the $10 you sold it for.
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> In the meantime the forest that supplied the paper and the stream that
> took the pulp mill's waste and the oil reserves that supplied the
> energy and the air that took the exhaust all were reduced in value by
> some small amount.
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> Sure, it looks like a gain when you only use one eye to look at it.
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I thnk it short-sighted to deny knowledge a "value". I also disagree
that the world is zero sum. Perhaps the universe is, but even that is
debatable. The only way that universe can be is a zero sum is if you
deny the possibility of creation. That means both a eternal universe(has
always existed, always will exist), and an existing universe in which
nothing can be created. The evidence does not bear witness to that.

Post-moderism has simply gone beyond to existentionalism("I think
therefore I am")to the post-existentalism("I defined it, therefore it
exists".). *Howard* increases in value, as a result of the book
existing. The book creates effect, and anything that can create effect
is "real" by definition. We know how it happens, and watch it happen
every day. How do you balance the creation of knowledge? Or the ability
to communicate that knowledge to future generations?.

Donald

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