I agree that there seems to be a trend toward this internationally. Its remarkable whats happened with the EU over the last decade or so. The catch...
I don't believe that national sovereignty, in the abstract, has any moral significance, since a sovereign can be a democratic government or a...
Is McDonald's really the model you'd like our public services and facilities to follow?
I haven't given the government nearly enough money to build a public education system, interstate highway system, and fire department.(actually, as a...
This is an interesting point. "Productive citizen" implies productivity in the context of one's status as a citizen, a member of a state. Whereas...
Isn't democracy, in a sense, the application of free market principles to government? Pure anarchy wouldn't last very long. A few would quickly...
ah, so, in other words, We know that there were violations. We don't know who exactly authorized what. We don't know, indeed we have no way of...
How so? We know that there were violations. That's it. We don't know who exactly authorized what. We don't know, indeed we have no way of knowing,...
What do you mean? "Free market" as a system of government would seem to mean anarchy.
The transcript of the oral argument of this case is available now on the S.Ct. website. One thing that has been noted is that Justice Breyer asked...
For those interested in the legal framework surrounding any prosecutions of U.S. agents, here is a great breakdown:...
I don't doubt that it happened, but has anyone ever tried to bring a legal action based on it? For the record, at least some of the U.S. conduct...
Isn't the fact that they do these things and we (ostensibly) don't the reason that we're the good guys and they're the bad guys? Who could say...
There are really two issues in this case. In my view, there should be a third. The first is whether or not this was a constitutionally justified...
I think from an individual perspective, the only thing better than democracy is a monarchy ruled by the individual. That not being an option(for...
This thread's title caught my attention, and although I couldn't make sense of the original post, I wanted to respond to the title question. Its...
According to Wittgenstein, questions like "what is good?" are meaningless. That doesn't mean that they are contradictory like "tall short person",...
From what I've read of the edgewood thing the army is denying that any civilians were exposed to anything, and there's no proof that they were. If...
The military has done(and probably is doing) a lot of bad stuff. However, they still have to obey the law. They may do stuff secretly or find...
I just started using wikipedia, and was watching this in the hopes of getting a better understanding of it. It seemed like all that had to be done...
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