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Please do not fly to the opposite extreme

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 5 Mar 20

It has always struck me as odd that that there is a certain type of person who finds it impossible to believe in shades of grey. For them, you are either at one extreme or the other. For example, if you object to the right-wing...

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What Morally Should The State Be Doing?

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 21 Oct 15

The title refers to the Tuesday 20th October 2015 meeting of the Manchester Armchair Philosophy Group, who meet monthly in Chorlton. The meeting was chaired by Mary Crumpton, John Hulls and introduced by Chris Burke. Chris...

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To work or not to work,that is the question

ruby222 @ruby222 (4847) 18 Oct 08

A newspaper article I have just been reading is very interesting.It is all about the lives of two different families.Both are large families,one family relies on State benefits to keep them and the roof above their head,and in the...

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Make Scroungers Work!

MichaelJay @MichaelJay (1100) 21 Jul 08

This is the basic message coming from the UK government today that people of working age on long term benefits such as invalidity should be made to do some sort of work to pay for their benefits. The idea is that this work should...

government policy

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Very NON - PC !

redyellowblackdog @redyellowblackdog (10629) • United States 30 Dec 07

At the risk of being called racists and bigots for merely reporting the truth, the murder statistics by race for Baltimore for 2007 have been reported. At the link is an interactive graphic that allows displaying locations of...

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End the War Now

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 27 Mar 07

Congress needs to take swift action and end the war now. It has been going on for too long and we do not see any results. Tnhe costs keep going up and what do we have to show for it. Things are as bad if not worse than when the...

war on poverity

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For anyone who has not read the book

coslenchip @coslenchip (101) • United States 23 Feb 07

Here is a link to a pdf copy of it. http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM_Internet.pdf Yes, it is a legal distribution. Please read it and try to understand it. If you need more information, please make new...