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in thread "Political systems and the mess we are in":

I’d like to surface the theory of Our Democracy as a complex of institutions rather than any particular voting mechanism or suffrage rule. Different mechanisms and rules have existed in the US in the past and at the end of that line of development lies u... 1mo ago received

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*For examples see: income tax (constitutional amendment passed because initially scoped to ~1% of Americans, now covers practically everyone), civil asset forfeiture (initially aimed at only drug seizures, now the cops can legally take your stuff almost wi... 1mo ago received

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in thread "Horrorism vs Vitalism":

There is no unbounded exponential growth in nature. There is always a limiting factor, but that limiting factor isn't always a negative feedback loop - it can simply be that the resources fueling the growth ran out. I'd even conjecture that that is the com... 2mo ago received

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Perhaps to reframe a little - survival and replication are the fundamental mathematical imperatives of existence. The only question is "what is the basic unit of survival and replication"? If you believe it is the civilization itself then vitalism means so... 2mo ago received

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Bro what is the difference between self-evident and as you put it... 2mo ago received

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You've produced an interesting frane - thank you. While reading what you wrote it occurred to me that self-evident and axiomatic are indeed almost polar opposites, for the reason that axioms often take a great deal of thinking to uncover. One could view al... 2mo ago received

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