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the hellfire challenge

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1RickHarsch
Mar 26, 2011, 4:32 pm

Is this post received here not deserving of some real hellfire:

Anyone who believes decentralization to anarchy will bring about some form of Utopia is an idealist at best and stupid at worst. Government exists for a reason. But why expect people to learn from history?

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2urania1
Mar 26, 2011, 6:00 pm

About which social contract are we talking?

???????

3RickHarsch
Mar 26, 2011, 6:10 pm

this was in the utopia post and i was gently mocking of it, but if this is truly a hellfire group such a post deserves to be raked over--no: buried in the coals. And kicked about til ashed inside and out. Smug. All-exclusive. Concise to the point of vapid.

4RickHarsch
Mar 26, 2011, 6:10 pm

I never signed a social contract in my life.

5urania1
Mar 26, 2011, 6:15 pm

Neither did I. But people keep telling me I live with one. I didn't even sign on for the United States Constitution and its variable interpretations.

6RickHarsch
Mar 26, 2011, 6:18 pm

Then we are clearly free...and if US armies are fighting for a free world they are fighting for us and therefore can hardly blame us for opposing them.

7RickHarsch
Mar 26, 2011, 6:22 pm

and if that's convoluted you should hear how i explain the absolute necessity of tearing up parking tickets

8LolaWalser
Mar 28, 2011, 4:11 pm

You have me down for a professional wrassler, don't you. Get cable, my good man, get cable.

9clamairy
Apr 2, 2011, 10:33 am

#1 - That particular poster is renowned for peeing in threads and running away.

10LolaWalser
Apr 2, 2011, 10:44 am

I THINK I'm a good aunt, but I must admit I always avoided diaper duty.

11Phocion
Modificato: Apr 2, 2011, 12:09 pm

If you don't believe you live under a social contract, leave whatever nation is imposing its government on you. Colonize an anarchical state that can sustain itself and repel attacks and prove me wrong.

9: Sorry that trying to find a full time job takes too much out of me to deal with drama here. But I'm beginning to like our conversations so much, you'll be the first to know just how many 50mg tablets of sleeping pills it takes to make my problems go away.

12clamairy
Apr 2, 2011, 12:20 pm

Just can't get enough of me, can you? ;o)

13LolaWalser
Apr 2, 2011, 12:50 pm

#11

Oh, LOL!

14Phocion
Modificato: Apr 2, 2011, 12:55 pm

I have an e-crush, to be true.

And for future reference, eleven pills do nothing.

15Phocion
Apr 2, 2011, 1:23 pm

This is the Hellfire Club? Where are my personal attacks? Where are the calls that I'm nothing but an apologist, a fascist, argumentative, trollish whiner? Tell me how naïve, how worthless I am.

16RickHarsch
Apr 2, 2011, 4:27 pm

to the contrary, you are clearly a man of striking genius

17pgmcc
Apr 2, 2011, 5:51 pm

This reminds me of the masochist asking to be whipped and the sadist saying, "No!"

18RickHarsch
Apr 2, 2011, 6:46 pm

but if the masochist is so because he is incapable of sadism?

19LolaWalser
Apr 2, 2011, 10:34 pm

#15

You're cute.

#17

:)

20pgmcc
Apr 3, 2011, 6:10 am

#18
It's too early in the week for me to try to work that out.

21soniaandree
Apr 3, 2011, 2:11 pm

For me, true freedom is to accept that, sometimes, a majority of people can vote for stupid governments - in truth, we get what we most vote for. But if I do my voting duty, the ones who don't (do theirs) would do well to *not* complain to me about anything institutional going pear-shaped. Did I mention French politicians are all starting to wibble about the upcoming presidential elections? I am voting for *me* (the saying goes that you can only trust yourself).