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  • MikM Away
    MikM Away
    Mik
    wrote on last edited by Mik
    #31

    I am skeptical of federal behavioral laws that fall outside the narrow limits of federal powers as defined by the constitution.

    I lean toward libertarian myself, and don’t see it as anarchy. But even it must have limits.

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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    • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

      @Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

      I think law at it's most basic level is codified morality.

      That's one way of looking it at. I would prefer to say that it's codifying the protection of the individual. So, in that case murder is clearly illegal, as is sexual abuse, robbery etc.

      Pornography, drug use, and gambling, just to pick three topics, become a little more problematic from this perspective, since people are choosing to become involved in an activity that may be harmful to themselves.. I think a great disservice has been done over many years in treating drug addicts as criminals.

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      Renauda
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      #32

      @Doctor-Phibes said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

      @Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

      I think law at it's most basic level is codified morality.

      That's one way of looking it at. I would prefer to say that it's codifying the protection of the individual. So, in that case murder is clearly illegal, as is sexual abuse, robbery etc.

      Protection of the individual is more to my thinking as well. The notion of codifying morality conjures up something entirely different from the Western world’s past that is more nasty and brutish than what has come to characterise an open society of today.

      Elbows up!

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      • jon-nycJ Online
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        jon-nyc
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        #33

        Wait… tell me more about the German shepherd and the girl…

        "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
        -Cormac McCarthy

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        • KlausK Offline
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          Klaus
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          #34

          Availability of porn roughly correlates with measures of freedom and wealth.

          I for one would not want to live in a society that bans pornography. The only ones that do this successfully are the Taliban.

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          • MikM Away
            MikM Away
            Mik
            wrote on last edited by
            #35

            Yeah. They only have goats and little boys.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            • JollyJ Offline
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              Jolly
              wrote on last edited by Jolly
              #36

              You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • MikM Mik

                Yeah. They only have goats and little boys.

                Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                Doctor Phibes
                wrote on last edited by
                #37

                @Mik said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                Yeah. They only have goats

                A nanny state?

                I was only joking

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                • JollyJ Jolly

                  You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

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                  Klaus
                  wrote on last edited by Klaus
                  #38

                  @Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                  You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

                  Funny you should ask, but I have actually met Ax and his family multiple times. What about you?

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                  • KlausK Klaus

                    @Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                    You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

                    Funny you should ask, but I have actually met Ax and his family multiple times. What about you?

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                    Doctor Phibes
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #39

                    @Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                    @Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                    You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

                    Funny you should ask, but I have actually met Ax and his family multiple times.

                    Yeah, me too. Ax is alright.

                    (That'll be $5, Ax)

                    I was only joking

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                    • MikM Away
                      MikM Away
                      Mik
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #40

                      I've met him too, but he never invited me over.... hmmm...what is he hiding?

                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                        Jolly
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #41

                        A dungeon?

                        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                        • KlausK Klaus

                          @Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                          You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

                          Funny you should ask, but I have actually met Ax and his family multiple times. What about you?

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                          Jolly
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #42

                          @Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                          @Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                          You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

                          Funny you should ask, but I have actually met Ax and his family multiple times. What about you?

                          I haven't. Based on what interactions I've had with him, I don't have an overwhelming desire to rub elbows with him.

                          Assuming he has a wife (female) and children, I wish them well.

                          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                            Klaus
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                            #43

                            You should occasionally meet with real people, Jolly. It puts things in perspective.

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                            • KlausK Klaus

                              You should occasionally meet with real people, Jolly. It puts things in perspective.

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                              Jolly
                              wrote on last edited by Jolly
                              #44

                              @Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                              You should occasionally meet with real people, Jolly. It puts things in perspective.

                              I suspect I meet and interact with more people than you do.

                              I sat here and counted up just yesterday. I had conversations with 28 different folks.

                              Yeah, it was a slow day...Do you have that many individual conversations in a day? In a week?

                              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                Doctor Phibes
                                wrote on last edited by Doctor Phibes
                                #45

                                I don't meet many actual people. Just customers. And engineers, of course. And management.

                                I think that might be why I come here. It makes real life seem better, somehow.

                                I was only joking

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                                  Horace
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #46

                                  Leaving the house is rarely the best decision.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                  • JollyJ Jolly

                                    @Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                                    You should occasionally meet with real people, Jolly. It puts things in perspective.

                                    I suspect I meet and interact with more people than you do.

                                    I sat here and counted up just yesterday. I had conversations with 28 different folks.

                                    Yeah, it was a slow day...Do you have that many individual conversations in a day? In a week?

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                                    Klaus
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #47

                                    @Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                                    @Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                                    You should occasionally meet with real people, Jolly. It puts things in perspective.

                                    I suspect I meet and interact with more people than you do.

                                    I sat here and counted up just yesterday. I had conversations with 28 different folks.

                                    Yeah, it was a slow day...Do you have that many individual conversations in a day? In a week?

                                    Not sure whether that counts, but I've given a lecture in front of 400 people today, including a lengthy Q&A.

                                    But my point was that you should meet a few TNCR folks face to face every once in a while and not build ones image of a person merely from your interaction on the forum.

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                                    • MikM Away
                                      MikM Away
                                      Mik
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #48

                                      Everyone is on their best behavior in person. Not so much here. 😆

                                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                        Horace
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #49

                                        The best part about meeting someone is that you can then gossip about them with great authority.

                                        Education is extremely important.

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                                        • HoraceH Horace

                                          The best part about meeting someone is that you can then gossip about them with great authority.

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                                          Renauda
                                          wrote on last edited by Renauda
                                          #50

                                          @Horace said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

                                          The best part about meeting someone is that you can then gossip about them with great authority.

                                          ….and even greater impunity.

                                          Elbows up!

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