"I humbly apologize for all the insults (and intellectual fraudulence). Sometimes I get carried away. I'll stagger away and lick my wounds now. Intellectually speaking, of course. "
Hmmm, I am too tired right now to decide if that is pure cask-stringth single barrel sarcasm or genuine comment(This cold has now extended into week 2 as of 1 hour ago!), because when it is done well, it is indecipherable from genuine sentiment. I will take it as genuine. Intellectually speaking, of course. ;-)
As for the remix-vs-re-parse thing, I honestly don't see where you are coming from, but I'm more than happy to chalk it up to the limit of net communication and my inability to think accurately while sick.
"I really am curious as to how you see a legitimate social contract existing globally."
I guess it really depends on whose notion of social contract and what you mean by globally. 1945-->1950 europe and North America, yeah... One could certainly say there was a social contract lurking there in the implicit sense according to some notions of Social Contract. Frankly, while I certainly don't have any better ideas than Hobbes/Locke/Rousseau/Mill/Burke (etc etc ad nauseum all the way up to the 1990s), I'm pretty skeptical when it comes to philosophical schools, having ridden so many through to the intellectual bitter end. Take that to mean what you will about what I believe to really be true.
Davin L.
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- 80% of the problem in Iraq is surrounded
- Look for things to get worse, not 80% better
- The USMC is playing this smart
- As I said before, it is time to bring in the B-52Hs and B1-Bs while they are surrounded.
- The US is over there. Illegally and immorally killing 'em.
- If my country was run by a mass murderer and generalized asshole like Saddam Hussein, and some other country
- Don't believe your own propaganda.
- Saddam was a mass murderer?
- So by your premises
- The UN treaty that Iraq signed prohibits such activity.
- Pathetic pedantic
- Pathetic response
- Fine
- Hello? He murdered masses of people. Are you another academic?
- Get down on your knees and kiss the feet of our resident philosophy professor:
- lezeee, liberal=Democrat=academic=buttmonkey=marxist? Have I got your formula right Tom?
- Another: T'Hell with tom Brosz for painting with a broad brush
- Cite the Iraq law(s) Saddam violated.
- Thats precisely on the same level as asking: "Cite the Nazi Germany laws that Hitler violated when he gassed the jews"
- Pathetic response
- Man...
- Do ya have to be a lawyer to have an interest in the rule of law?
- If my country was run by a mass murderer and generalized asshole like Saddam Hussein, and some other country
- Winning hearts and minds of the "next bunch of assholes"
- They're not very smart.
- The US is over there. Illegally and immorally killing 'em.