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    Public Opinion on a New Community Expansion

    Write-in for "Blood and Iron." Fits an age of imperialism/WW1 focus.
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    "Mississippi’s last abortion clinic faces closure"

    If God has a purpose for everything that occurs, and if abortion is something that occurs, then logically, God must have a purpose for abortion, no?
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    What is, and what should be, the standard for determining racial insensitivity?

    The problem isn't that you're doing something that someone considers offensive, it's that, as far as I can tell anyway, you're doing it because someone considers it offensive. If it really is that trivial that you are unable to see why it's offensive, you probably don't really care whether you...
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    How is your Victoria Game going?

    My strategy was to do this horrifically gamey invasion of Egypt, manually setting my stockpile settings so I would keep some org while maintaining a budget surplus. The AI disbands its entire navy and most of its army if you wait a month or so before attacking, which is key as they start out...
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    Greek-themed movies you would like Hollywood to make?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_%28TV_miniseries%29 I saw something based on the Odyssey on TV before, think it was this but I don't recall for sure.
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    So Islam is a religion of peace?

    "One of the 8 or so major powers involved in the World Wars wasn't technically Christian (though it was heavily westernized), therefore, they totally weren't Christian wars!" (Incidentally, the 2nd Sino-Japanese war wasn't really even part of WW2, it just happened at the same time. But given...
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    How Are Christians Discriminated Against?

    But that history leads up to the present day. A long-standing, historic enmity exists in American culture between the different Christian denominations, and it still persists today. No such enmity exists between Christians and atheists. Well, at least not on the atheist side, anyway. We...
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    How Are Christians Discriminated Against?

    Christians of other denominations, of course. Atheists vs Christians, that amounts to nothing but a few snarky comments, and only in the past few decades at that. Which pales in comparison to the terrible enmity and prejudice between slightly different sects, like the "mainstream" Protestant...
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    What would the income distribution look like with no redistribution?

    It's hard to fish when you're not allowed anywhere near the water. So long as the waters are monopolized under the private control of an elite few, it is inevitable that everyone else will be disenfranchised. Surely you see the problem here? You're telling people to go fishing, when the...
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    How much of your success has come from luck?

    Pretty much everything in life is a matter of "luck" imo. Though as a determinist, I'd specify that by "luck" I mean things outside individual control, like the social status of the family one is born into, the personal characteristics of one's childhood caretakers, one's genetics, the cultural...
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    Do you ever feel depressed? Whats your advice?

    [insert McCoy's take on 1980s medicine here] Seriously (and in case you've never seen Star Trek IV and don't know what I'm talking about), psychiatry c. 2011 is practically in the dark ages compared to other fields. Statistically, 30-35% of cases of depression resolve within 6 months without...
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    Do we really need jobs?

    There's also things like digging and filling in holes, or creating a vast, over-funded police state. That second option is particularly likely, imo. Nineteen-eighty four is a brilliant example of a long-term sustainable form of capitalism. It avoids the problem of technologically rendering...
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    Why bother voting anymore?

    Not to pick on you in particular, but you bring up a good point. How can one single government ever hope to satisfactorily represent over 300 million different voices, each with their own unique interests? That is why voting is folly. It is not that the current Republicrat party is corrupt...
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    Determinates of Sexuality

    "I am not gay, therefore, being gay is unnatural." Quite simple really, nothing more than egocentrism propped up by authoritarianism. The view that you're the center of the universe, and that you are somehow ordained with the authority to force others to obey this truth. It is no different...
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    A Flat* Tax Plan

    God forbid we actually show even the slightest bit of compassion for the poor. Better to turn them into unabombers; cast out by society and confined to the woods. To be realistic, guaranteed minimum income is supposed to eliminate the great evil of society, poverty. It's not supposed to be...
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