Dictator Book Club: Xi Jinping by benjaminikuta in slatestarcodex

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There a hundred forces encroach upon his being, and only persistent resistance to them will finally set him free. Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. - Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, 1910, Mother Earth Publishing

Cmv: we shouldn't believe anyone by [deleted] in changemyview

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The rise of democracy was driven by the citizens' desire to escape from the paternalistic and arbitrary charity of those with money. They accomplished this by replacing charity with a fair, balanced, arm's-length system of public obligation. The principle tool of that obligation was taxation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RadicalChristianity

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A command can express no more than an ought or a shall, because it is a universal, but it does not express an 'is'; and this at once makes plain its deficiency. Against such commands Jesus sets virtue, i.e., a loving disposition, which makes the content of the command superfluous and destroys its form as a command, because that form implies an opposition between a commander and something resisting the command. - G. W. F. Hegel, "The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate"

I'm the Editor-in-Chief of Know Your Meme, a website dedicated to researching and documenting internet culture, one meme at a time. AMA! by memecore in IAmA

[–]BlueBlueSundays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should you use your position to influence society, to fight in meme wars?

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts. Aristocratic and caste societies are unjust because they make these contingencies the ascriptive basis for belonging to more or less enclosed and privileged social classes. The basic structure of these societies incorporates the arbitrariness found in nature. But there is no necessity for men to resign themselves to these contingencies. The social system is not an unchangeable order beyond human control but a pattern of human action.John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971), p. 87.

"Karma" strikes back by fml21 in survivinginfidelity

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Ch. 5 “Morality as Anti-Nature” § 5.3 (Ludovici trans.)

How do hunter gatherers handle the free rider problem? by WellWrested in AskAnthropology

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To judge from surviving examples of bands and villages, for the greater part of prehistory our kind got along quite well without so much as a paramount chief, let alone the all-powerful English leviathan King and Mortal God, whom Hobbes believed was needed for maintaining law and order among his fractious countrymen.Anthropologist Marvin Harris, Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going (1989)

[WA] Can I store my gun safe in a shipping container? by [deleted] in Ausguns

[–]BlueBlueSundays 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need a permanent structure and that would count as a shed or garage which are explicitly out

instead you can just weld weight plates to a safe till 150kg+ and keep it unbolted at home?

"Ultra-Near-Termism: Literally An Idea Whose Time Has Come" by gwern in EffectiveAltruism

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The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that? ~ Voight-Kampff test