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Comment on The Face of Cancer by Dave Alexander

Dave Alexander — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:10:47 +0000

Goose,

I was sorry to learn of your parents passing from the website.

This is a great piece of writing handling a difficult subject in clean prose.

Comment on We Choose Obama! by Carissa

Carissa — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:44:52 +0000

Great work.

Comment on Fat People Are Not Funny by Brian Martens

Brian Martens — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:02:16 +0000

I’m not sure what you’re arguing here. Is it that fat people are not all funny? Or, is it that life is not funny and not all people should be laughing at it? Statements like, “fat kids always walked around laughing at everything” lead me to believe that you’re saying fat people laugh at everything that isn’t funny. This is a totally different argument than saying that fat people themselves aren’t funny.

The Libertarian in me says that free speech is a constitutional right that should never be abridged, yet blog posts like this make me second think my opinion.

Comment on Protectionism vs Globalism by Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:51:50 +0000

So Globalism and Protectionism for me is just like religion and evolution, polygamy and monagamy, competition and collectivism, capitalism and communism. There are good and bad things in each of them and I guess as a people we have to decide what we think will be best for us in both the short and long term.

Comment on Protectionism vs Globalism by Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:47:04 +0000

It’s hard for us since we Americans grow up in a capitalistic society and have always been told that communism is evil, that a government like that will take all your rights and money away from you. I have read books like Animal Farm and the Grapes of Wrath that are helpful in seeing other’s perspectives and the communistic viewpoint both good and bad. Having gone to Denmark when I was a kid and Norway more recently, I see the good and bad of a more socialistic protectionistic high taxing society. There are more inefficiencies in a socialistic society but also less violence, less destruction, less poverty, but also less wealth and sometimes the government’s standards and quality are lower than what people really want.

Last night I was reading about monogamy and polygamy and how monogamous societies are more stable since more men have partners and are then less prone to violence. But human beings have tradionally been more polygamous which is more common in the middle east (and Mormon religion in Utah) and that animals where the male is larger than the female tend to be polygamous and men are much larger than women on average so we likely evolved from polygamy. Women benefit from polygamy since they have access to a wealthy or more attractive male that can help them or their offspring survive. Men benefit from monogamy since a poor man can still find a woman to get married too which makes society overall more stable.

Monagamy is like communism where men share with other men for all the women.
Polygamy is like capitalism, much more competitive, where only the best men get all the women.

Religions tells us to live a certain way and most point to monagamy and a more communistic sharing of resources to help the poor and improve all of human kind.
Evolution teaches competition and having the strongest survive to improve ourselves as a species.

It is all very conflicting!