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"INTPs do not like to lead or control people. They're very tolerant and flexible in most situations, unless one of their firmly held beliefs has been violated or challenged, in which case they may take a very rigid stance."- Portrait of an INTP.

So what's your principles?
 

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"Stand up for what's right, even if you stand alone."

That's my principle.

Oh, and I'm a fan of William James:

1) Seek truth
2) Avoid error
3) Always keep rule #1 ahead of rule #2

And the four noble truths of Buddhism, modified to suit my peculiar taste.

And fidelity. I'm a big fan of loyalty.

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My principles are:

1) Bullying is the number 1 most thing to make me hate you, be it me or someone else.

2) Everyone is equal. Saying anything else will automatically make me hate you.

3) Tradition can go and fuck itself, especially if there is no logical or beneficial basis.

:D I must sound real harsh.

On the bright side though, I don't have to worry about being bullied anymore. :D
 

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1) Don't try to convert me to your religion

2) Don't touch me unless I've given you permission.

3) Don't fuck with me (self-explanatory).

4) Don't scream/provoke/annoy me.

5) Honesty

6) Loyalty

etc.
 

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1. Fairness/justice
(an amorphous concept, I know: to me, whether life is unfair or not, we can choose to either seek to make it more fair, more unfair, or do nothing)
kind of different from:
ashitaria said:
2) Everyone is equal.
Please don't hate me unless you hate all other humans too! :D

Also,
Vrecknidj said:
And fidelity. I'm a big fan of loyalty.

and
No freedom should be abrogated except insofar as that restriction on freedom is necessary to protect everyone else's freedoms. (Basically legally libertarian)

EDIT: Something else - not only do I not like to control people, I do not like it when other people are being controlled either. Leading is a bit different - like Words, I actually like to lead if there is a purpose to it.
 

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INTPs do not like to lead or control people.

Hm, I actually do like to lead. But not for the process itself but for the goal I plan to achieve.

They're very tolerant and flexible in most situations

More like apathetic.
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Principles. I actually made a similar thread a few months ago, not a very successful one.

You could also think about how a personality actually defines ones' principles.

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Mine is rather simple:

Progression, Change, Development and Social Welfare. If you block me from this path, I will not like you.:)
 

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My set of values, which I spent a long time working out about 6 years ago, haven't changed in all that time. I don't always live up to them perfectly, but they are what I strive for. They are, in no particular order:

Relationships:
Don't take anyone for granted.
Use good manners.
Respect others' prerogatives, personal space, and privacy.
Be loyal to those who deserve it.

General Behavior:
Act with honor/integrity.
Be courageous (don't let fear rule you).
Solve problems before they occur, and don't make the same mistake twice.
Take responsibility for your own actions, and don't take responsibility for others' actions.


It is absolutely true about being rigid, but it doesn't come up often for me. Being falsely accused of something, or accused of unprofessional or unethical behavior, I find intolerable. I really do lose all adaptability when something like that happens.
 

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I believe I am too lazy to actually have any principles....
I do have values, and perhaps a good set of them...

But I just have Values, in order to be lazy...

If i spend any time at all making an "ethical " decision, I exalt that decision to the status of being a Value - so I never have to think about that matter again.

For example, I used to hunt a lot and I enjoyed it. However, there came a point in time, when I really began to question whether it was right to take a life, just for amusement. I decided it was OK to kill for food or mercy, but not for sport.

Now, when deer season rolls around, I do not think about going, i now value the lives of deer. Of course if I was really hungry i would kill one or if I found one suffering from a gut wound or whatever i would put it out of its misery...
 

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Principles? Hmm. Not sure I actually have any... At least any that are more than an amorphous blob.

Don't try to fucking manipulate me or I will murder you.

Might be one, but since it's a one way street I can't be sure. And conformity pisses me off, especially when it's pretending to be unique. But that's another story.
 

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And conformity pisses me off

I don't understand this. Adapting, in my opinion, is more a useful trait. Blending in allows power. Is it your like for consistency and truth? But how is truth even definable? Is anything even truly consistent?

All humans, to any extent, will have to conform. The problem is whether to consider it a hindrance or a tool for the benefit of ambition. This could be where politics begin, once society is infiltrated, the change will begin from within.
 

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1. Open-mindedness
2. Self-respect
3. Harmony

A self examined life is a life lived well. - Animekitty
 

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My principles are:

1) Bullying is the number 1 most thing to make me hate you, be it me or someone else.


Bullies don't care if you hate them: in fact they like the attention.

Communism never became less popular because it tortured and killed people in tens of millions: it just gained more respect.


2) Everyone is equal. Saying anything else will automatically make me hate you.


No human being is ever faintly equal in any way to any other human being: on each they will have qualities and capabilities that will be superior and inferior compared with any random other.

As far as political equality is concerned, this is even more ridiculous; and as meaningless as such words as 'Freedom', or 'Democracy', or 'Fascism', or 'Patriotism', since in each case the speaker invests the word with such meaning as he chooses which by rare case agrees with the preconceived meaning affirmed by a listener.


To want everyone to be 'Equal', or 'Equally Valued', or 'Equal in the Sight of God', is not only a vain exercise; and positing an essentially trivial aspiration: but is utterly spiritually disgusting: demeaning the human spirit by debasing the higher to the lower.


And when everyone is a good obedient little slave: everyone with the same intelligence and mentality, every woman able to do what every man may do, every child demanding the same respect as their parent, every person with exactly the same abilities and aspirations, and every voter having the same importance to determine policy... What is left ? Where would you go from there but to killing oneself from boredom ?


Fuck Equality.



3) Tradition can go and fuck itself, especially if there is no logical or beneficial basis.



Tradition, no matter how out-dated or nonsensical, is the only thing that prevents us degenerating into a Hobbesian nightmare of the strong pulling apart the poor and society becoming a materialistic mass where each pursues only his own interest. A tradition against wife-beating would help Middle Eastern women a lot more than imposing western education.





Claverhouse :phear:
 

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Bullies don't care if you hate them: in fact they like the attention.

Not unless the person who hates them have power. I can easily say that I wield much more power than I used to, due to my current social standing and physical features.

Communism never became less popular because it tortured and killed people in tens of millions: it just gained more respect.

Again, extremely subjective. The people that respected it were the leaders, not the people. And I know it doesn't necessarily apply because many people hate communism. You can't hate something that you respect.

Also, the government that killed and tortured was totalitarianism, not communism. You got your facts wrong. I do hope you know what totalitarianism is because I do not have the patience to explain it to you. Remember that it is not communism that was wrong, it was the leaders.




No human being is ever faintly equal in any way to any other human being: on each they will have qualities and capabilities that will be superior and inferior compared with any random other.

They can however, have the same rights say, to vote, to eat, to sleep, etc. In a whole, and not just traits, human beings are equal. Look at the big picture, not just the details.

As far as political equality is concerned, this is even more ridiculous; and as meaningless as such words as 'Freedom', or 'Democracy', or 'Fascism', or 'Patriotism', since in each case the speaker invests the word with such meaning as he chooses which by rare case agrees with the preconceived meaning affirmed by a listener.

People that have power only have power because the people give them the power. Obama would not have the power he wields today if the people rebelled, Congress would not be standing today if we did not support it. Don't say I'm wrong, if the government had absolute power, there would be no revolutions.

To want everyone to be 'Equal', or 'Equally Valued', or 'Equal in the Sight of God', is not only a vain exercise; and positing an essentially trivial aspiration: but is utterly spiritually disgusting: demeaning the human spirit by debasing the higher to the lower.

So you believe that there are superior beings? So you believe that God values more people than others? Then I can say outright that you are wrong. What I can say is that believing in a superior race, a superior type of people is much more then a vain exercise then believing that everyone is equal, and much more spiritually disgusting. You put it in the superior people's point of view, yet you do not put it in the whole of the people's point of view. Once again, you are not seeing the big picture.

I say this, the word is not demeaning, it is humbling. We are humbling the oh-so great people who think themselves the best, yet it is we who give them the power. Remember that the "superior" people are superior only because the people gave them the power. That is why there is propaganda.

Do not insult my intelligence.

And when everyone is a good obedient little slave: everyone with the same intelligence and mentality, every woman able to do what every man may do, every child demanding the same respect as their parent, every person with exactly the same abilities and aspirations, and every voter having the same importance to determine policy... What is left ? Where would you go from there but to killing oneself from boredom ?

I say this again, on the whole, everyone is equal, but also different. In other words, an ESFJ will be equal to an INTP, they just have different interests, neither has more power than the other. This alone tears apart half your arguments in this paragraphs.

You are also putting it once again in subjective terms: children will not necessarily demand what others demand, and women are able to do what men do, they just choose not to do it. Same thing with other people. You see, your disillusioned view of equality is that some people can do things better than others, and thus are better. You do not see that the same person can do things better than the other person. Look at the multiple-intelligence testing for example: it is seen that 94% of people are highly gifted in one aspect or another. Also, your propaganda method of name-calling (obedient little slaves) is highly improbable. I can say this, when everyone is equal, there is no one to obey. Thus, we cannot be slaves.

Do you now see the flaws in your reasoning?

Fuck Equality.

Fuck you.





Tradition, no matter how out-dated or nonsensical, is the only thing that prevents us degenerating into a Hobbesian nightmare of the strong pulling apart the poor and society becoming a materialistic mass where each pursues only his own interest. A tradition against wife-beating would help Middle Eastern women a lot more than imposing western education.


It does not necessarily have to be a tradition against wife-beating. It can be a law. Law and tradition are two different things.

And what is so bad for people to pursue their own interest? Do not the Americans do so and yet the nation flourishes? Also, you are being subjective again. How do you know that without tradition we will fall into anarchy? Look at the real traditional people, their tradition does have benefits, but they will also eventually die out because of them. Look at the silly traditions in history. You can say easily that traditions can do as much harm as good.


Claverhouse :phear:

You know that I have spoken without restraint thus I can easily say:

Ashitaria. :phear:

 

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Answer in bold.


You have much to learn about the Quote Button.


“The doctrine of equality ! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.”


"Equality is a lie concocted by inferior people who arrange themselves in herds to overpower those who are naturally superior to them. The morality of 'equal rights' is a herd morality, and because it opposes the cultivation of superior individuals, it leads to the corruption of the human species"


Nietzsche


Not unless the person who hates them have power. I can easily say that I wield much more power than I used to, due to my current social standing and physical features.



Good for you. Go live near the Taliban.




Again, extremely subjective. The people that respected it were the leaders, not the people. And I know it doesn't necessarily apply because many people hate communism.
The Soviet Union was immensely respected by most of it's subjects once it was in power; and not because they were frightened by that power. Many there still lament it's passing. Then again, I was referring originally to the Western Intelligensia's respect for the Great Experiment and it's Promise of Equality for all --- that kept staying beyond the horizon --- the Gulags and Show Trials merely affirmed to them that communism was serious; and so powerful that it would be folly for everywhere else to resist it.



You can't hate something that you respect.



One can respect one's father, but still hate him.



Also, the government that killed and tortured was totalitarianism, not communism. You got your facts wrong. I do hope you know what totalitarianism is because I do not have the patience to explain it to you. Remember that it is not communism that was wrong, it was the leaders.



Marxist-Leninist praxis cannot exist without a framework of totalitarian control.
Lenin laid the foundations by making competing ( left ) parties illegal and establishing that only the vanguard had the sole duty and pleasure of guiding the proletariat. Since all communist revolutions from the November revolution to the end of the Soviet Union --- from Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot to Tito to North Korea --- had vast punishment camps, enforced famines ( partly caused by the elimination of kulaks and other peasants ), a high rate of murder, and neighbour reports of neighbours, the verdict seems that it is not 'totalitarianism' as some vague madness, nor wicked leaders, but is integral to communism as a workable theory.



They can however, have the same rights say, to vote, to eat, to sleep, etc. In a whole, and not just traits, human beings are equal. Look at the big picture, not just the details.



They can have these things. They're not gonna though.



People that have power only have power because the people give them the power. Obama would not have the power he wields today if the people rebelled, Congress would not be standing today if we did not support it. Don't say I'm wrong, if the government had absolute power, there would be no revolutions.



Congress and the American government as a whole has no power derived from anything else than that they have power, and will be determined to hold onto it even if half the country disagrees with them. Which was tried once before.

If 90% of the 'People' became tea-baggers, or 90% became violent lefties it would still not affect the American --- or any other --- government's hold on power so long as they have the force to overawe rebellion.



So you believe that there are superior beings? So you believe that God values more people than others? Then I can say outright that you are wrong.



I do not believe anyone knows what God Desires, Likes, Wants, Says or Plans. And have a deep profound distrust of anyone who says they do know.

I have never noticed throughout nature or history that He Values equality or that this is His chosen predestined Final Plan.



What I can say is that believing in a superior race, a superior type of people is much more then a vain exercise then believing that everyone is equal, and much more spiritually disgusting. You put it in the superior people's point of view, yet you do not put it in the whole of the people's point of view. Once again, you are not seeing the big picture.



I never mentioned a superior race, or type of people. I certainly believe that many individuals are superior to other individuals; and that most people are base. And I do not care if it suits those superior people's point of view, or that if I held the converse it would suit the inferior people's point of view: truth is the only thing that matters, not what flatters a purely temporary group.



Do not insult my intelligence.



Don't make this easy...



You are also putting it once again in subjective terms: children will not necessarily demand what others demand, and women are able to do what men do, they just choose not to do it. Same thing with other people. You see, your disillusioned view of equality is that some people can do things better than others, and thus are better. You do not see that the same person can do things better than the other person. Look at the multiple-intelligence testing for example: it is seen that 94% of people are highly gifted in one aspect or another. Also, your propaganda method of name-calling (obedient little slaves) is highly improbable. I can say this, when everyone is equal, there is no one to obey. Thus, we cannot be slaves.


You will be self-slaved. Anyway, when everybody is equal, there will still be those in charge, whether they be technocrats or those voted to fulfil the Will of the People. Dissent will be difficult, but... with advances in euthanesia, probably painless.



You know that I have spoken without restraint thus I can easily say:

Ashitaria. :phear:


You can copy whomever you like...





Harrison Bergeron





Claverhouse :phear:



These are a few of the statistics compiled by Hristov, who writes that "in a country of 45 million, around 11 million people are unable to afford even one nutritious meal a day. According to statistics from 2005, 65 percent of Colombians are unable to regularly satisfy basic subsistence needs. In rural areas, the poverty rate is as high as 85 percent. In 2000 it was estimated that half a million children suffer from malnutrition and close to 2.5 million children between the ages of six and seventeen are forced to work. Furthermore, there has been a notable decline in school attendance, literacy, and life expectancy as well as access to child care and education over the past couple of years.


The size and strength of paramilitary death squads in Colombia has steadily increased since they were first established in the 1960s. According to Hristov, the paramilitaries are now responsible for about 80 percent of human rights violations in Colombia, compared to 16 percent by the rebel guerrillas. The paramilitaries' evolution, Hristov argues, is the result of "perhaps the most creative and intelligent effort by an elite-dominated state to counteract revolutionary processes. The Colombian parastatal system represents neither a traditional centralized authoritarian regime, as those that existed in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, nor merely a collection of autonomous armed bands dispersed over rural areas, each ruling locally, as in Mexico. What we see in Colombia is a mutated SCA that has assumed a nonstate appearance."


Since 2006, there have been several government initiatives that give the formal appearance of the Colombian government working to combat paramilitaries. Hristov explains that "early in 2007 the Supreme Court began investigating numerous connections between paramilitaries and important state actors, such as senators, representatives, deputies, councilors, and mayors. As time went by, the public learned of more and more cases in which the legal (state officials with their political authority and legitimacy) and the illegal (paramilitary groups with their economic and military power) had entered into alliances to advance their mutual interests. Through mid-2008, 38 percent of members of Congress have been implicated in this parapolitica scandal."


Neoliberalism Needs Death Squads in Colombia



I certainly do not consider myself superior, and I have little real concern for the Columbian children and peasants murdered there; but I'm damned if anyone tells me that I am not superior to some thug who murders such people for money...





 

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You have much to learn about the Quote Button.

I wish to speak in bold- it is much less of a hassle and gets the job done.

“The doctrine of equality ! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.”


"Equality is a lie concocted by inferior people who arrange themselves in herds to overpower those who are naturally superior to them. The morality of 'equal rights' is a herd morality, and because it opposes the cultivation of superior individuals, it leads to the corruption of the human species"


Nietzsche


Quotes are not necessarily truth. In fact, I don't even want to bother arguing against this when I have already stated all the statistics, facts and logic in my previous posts.



Good for you. Go live near the Taliban.

Thank you. I will do that.

The Soviet Union was immensely respected by most of it's subjects once it was in power; and not because they were frightened by that power. Many there still lament it's passing. Then again, I was referring originally to the Western Intelligensia's respect for the Great Experiment and it's Promise of Equality for all --- that kept staying beyond the horizon --- the Gulags and Show Trials merely affirmed to them that communism was serious; and so powerful that it would be folly for everywhere else to resist it.

It was because many people only saw the surface of communism, and did not see the core of totalitarianism, they only saw the ideals of workers ruling the country and not the terrorism within the country. If they had, I doubt it would have been so widely respected. Also remember that the press was tightly controlled, no one would have known the horrors of Russia.

[quote]Also, the government that killed and tortured was totalitarianism, not communism. You got your facts wrong. I do hope you know what totalitarianism is because I do not have the patience to explain it to you. Remember that it is not communism that was wrong, it was the leaders.


Marxist-Leninist praxis cannot exist without a framework of totalitarian control.
Lenin laid the foundations by making competing ( left ) parties illegal and establishing that only the vanguard had the sole duty and pleasure of guiding the proletariat. Since all communist revolutions from the November revolution to the end of the Soviet Union --- from Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot to Tito to North Korea --- had vast punishment camps, enforced famines ( partly caused by the elimination of kulaks and other peasants ), a high rate of murder, and neighbour reports of neighbours, the verdict seems that it is not 'totalitarianism' as some vague madness, nor wicked leaders, but is integral to communism as a workable theory.


Once again, it is the leaders that form the overall wickedness of communism, not the ideals. It is after all, a form of government whereby the workers rule the nation, and was formed out of poor working conditions, poor wages and poor living conditions. It is true that all of the revolutions of communism had many enforcements of punishments, but assuming they had gained their power by the people solely, what then?




They can have these things. They're not gonna though.







Congress and the American government as a whole has no power derived from anything else than that they have power, and will be determined to hold onto it even if half the country disagrees with them. Which was tried once before.

Yet during that time the people who disagreed with them did not take the initiative to rebel. Power is useless if it is not used.

If 90% of the 'People' became tea-baggers, or 90% became violent lefties it would still not affect the American --- or any other --- government's hold on power so long as they have the force to overawe rebellion.

Of course because those tea-baggers or violent lefties attentions will not necessarily be on overthrowing the government. A government's hold on power also still depends on the people, after all, if there were no people, there would be no people to uphold the law.





I do not believe anyone knows what God Desires, Likes, Wants, Says or Plans. And have a deep profound distrust of anyone who says they do know.

So do I, but you told your beliefs of God so I told mine. Therefore, it is not safe to assume anything about God in this debate.

I have never noticed throughout nature or history that He Values equality or that this is His chosen predestined Final Plan.

Once again, see the above. And also, how do you know that there is a God in the first place?









I never mentioned a superior race, or type of people. I certainly believe that many individuals are superior to other individuals; and that most people are base. And I do not care if it suits those superior people's point of view, or that if I held the converse it would suit the inferior people's point of view: truth is the only thing that matters, not what flatters a purely temporary group.

How are you sure it is a truth? How? If you are just going to push that belief to me and say it is a truth, no way am I going to accept that especially when I wrote out a lengthy debate about that.





Don't make this easy...



And to say you are not?



You will be self-slaved. Anyway, when everybody is equal, there will still be those in charge, whether they be technocrats or those voted to fulfil the Will of the People. Dissent will be difficult, but... with advances in euthanesia, probably painless.

Everyone is self-slaved, there is nothing to lose. And though there still will be those in charge, at least the people have the power to overthrow them if they wish and know that the decision to let them into power was theirs.





You can copy whomever you like...

Copy? No. My ideals are original.



Harrison Bergeron





Claverhouse :phear:



These are a few of the statistics compiled by Hristov, who writes that "in a country of 45 million, around 11 million people are unable to afford even one nutritious meal a day. According to statistics from 2005, 65 percent of Colombians are unable to regularly satisfy basic subsistence needs. In rural areas, the poverty rate is as high as 85 percent. In 2000 it was estimated that half a million children suffer from malnutrition and close to 2.5 million children between the ages of six and seventeen are forced to work. Furthermore, there has been a notable decline in school attendance, literacy, and life expectancy as well as access to child care and education over the past couple of years.


The size and strength of paramilitary death squads in Colombia has steadily increased since they were first established in the 1960s. According to Hristov, the paramilitaries are now responsible for about 80 percent of human rights violations in Colombia, compared to 16 percent by the rebel guerrillas. The paramilitaries' evolution, Hristov argues, is the result of "perhaps the most creative and intelligent effort by an elite-dominated state to counteract revolutionary processes. The Colombian parastatal system represents neither a traditional centralized authoritarian regime, as those that existed in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, nor merely a collection of autonomous armed bands dispersed over rural areas, each ruling locally, as in Mexico. What we see in Colombia is a mutated SCA that has assumed a nonstate appearance."


Since 2006, there have been several government initiatives that give the formal appearance of the Colombian government working to combat paramilitaries. Hristov explains that "early in 2007 the Supreme Court began investigating numerous connections between paramilitaries and important state actors, such as senators, representatives, deputies, councilors, and mayors. As time went by, the public learned of more and more cases in which the legal (state officials with their political authority and legitimacy) and the illegal (paramilitary groups with their economic and military power) had entered into alliances to advance their mutual interests. Through mid-2008, 38 percent of members of Congress have been implicated in this parapolitica scandal."


Neoliberalism Needs Death Squads in Colombia



I certainly do not consider myself superior, and I have little real concern for the Columbian children and peasants murdered there; but I'm damned if anyone tells me that I am not superior to some thug who murders such people for money...


Yet you are after all a human being just like him. You also have the same capabilities as he does, and if you had the same motivations to do as he did, you probably would. This is after all, another subjective topic.


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From another thread.

1. There are certain goods people need.
food, water, shelter, transportation, entertainment and that needed to maintain it.
2. If a person were completely self sufficient they could manufacture theses objects by themselves.
3. Privacy is a big issue as well. Government abuse is based on keeping secrets from the public in order to keep power.
4. These governments are not elected and are in bed with big business. Military industrial complex/CIA/FBI. Even if some are good guys some are there just for power.
5. The power that government have over the people persist because the people are misinformed on who the bad guy are and because of the need for basic necessity's.
6. If were are to have a fair system then all aspects need to be decentralized.
Watter could be collected on roof tops. Solar would provide electricity for transportation.
7. Each person could have a private computer that would have an open source A.I. system to monitor government/home security.

1. Only 3 percent of the population was necessary to bring about the Revolutionary War of 1776.
2. In my opinion Communism was meant to protect the poor from the rich not to make everyone physically the the same. Thats called eugenics.
3. Our society needs to become completely transparent in order for true Communism to work.
 

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From a biological and neurological point of view, I disagree with people being equal - I think some individuals are better at some things than other individuals. This is evident in the simple fact that people have different learning styles (amongst other things that I won't get into in this thread).

That being said, I think people should have equal opportunity to pursue, to the best of their abilities, whatever they want, regardless of pedigree, race, sex, religion etc - essentially meritocracy.
 

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From a biological and neurological point of view, I disagree with people being equal - I think some individuals are better at some things than other individuals. This is evident in the simple fact that people have different learning styles (amongst other things that I won't get into in this thread).

That being said, I think people should have equal opportunity to pursue, to the best of their abilities, whatever they want, regardless of pedigree, race, sex, religion etc - essentially meritocracy.


I see your point, but how does having a different learning style make one "better" than another individual, if that is the case, your statement implies that the individual who is "better" in certain areas, also has a deficiency in another. I would rather say that individuals have different styles of approaching a given situation, thus all equal in that respect, not one being better than the other.
 
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