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The United Nations should make global human rights a priority and should
use sanctions, war crimes trials and even military intervention against
those who continue to practice torture and Orwellian oppression.
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The U.N. is a fraternity of monsters for whom "human rights" is only a
rhetorical bludgeon. Ultimately the organization is designed to more
efficiently expand the tyranny of its members.
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Homosexuality is not a disease or a chosen "lifestyle" - it's an attribute
as inherent and inflexible as eye color or height.
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Homosexuality, and heterosexuality for that matter, are choices - both of
which are often somewhat pathological and limiting in practice.
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3a |
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The pyramids were built on the backs of slaves; the cathedrals of Europe
hid many a torture; the Moon was explored while children starved. The
O.J. Trial is our age's monument to history; history will judge.
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The hype surrounding the O.J. Simpson trial was perhaps one of the most
shameful things the world has ever seen. Atrocious murders and the
humiliation of Justice became a spectacle closely akin to throwing
Christians to Lions.
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Drugs like marijuana, LSD, and such are not just unjustly banned, but are
positively important, opening up new windows of possibility to the mind in
a way analogous to, though even more dramatic than, the discovery of the
microscope or of language itself.
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The vagueness with which some "astronauts of inner space" discuss their
remarkable experiences leads me to believe that these drugs have merely
evolved through a sort of natural selection to fool us into believing
that they're good for us.
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If I were invited to the White House to meet the President, I hope I'd have
the courage to use the opportunity to confront him forcefully on some issue
of importance rather than let him use me as scenery in a photo-op.
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If I were invited to the White House to meet the President, I hope I'd have
the courage to piss on his leg in front of television cameras.
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6b |
I suspect that the position of a person in the internet is likely to
grow to resemble that of a brain cell in the brain - unconscious of the
larger ramifications of its activity, but unable to defend a separate and
autonomous existence.
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The internet has true culture-shattering possibilities; we are more
and more coming to live inside of a world of our own creating, inhabited
not with ghosts (like TV) but with other souls; is this Heaven on the
horizon?
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7b |
If gay couples want to gain the right to marry, they might as well just
become straight.
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There's no reason why a gay couple that wants to marry should be
prohibited by law from doing so.
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8a |
8b |
Contradictions are illusionary, and only reflect a larger unity. Every
opposition is subsumed by a whole.
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On the contrary, every thing itself mandates its own opposition and the
nature of contradiction.
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Capitalism under law is basically the rewarded enforcement by the non-rich
of the sanctity of keeping generations of stolen property and wealth in the
hands of their current controllers.
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Capitalism isn't a program or a system like "socialism," but a
description of reality like "the Pythagorean theorem." Deal with it.
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If more people read newspapers and news magazines instead of watching
television, we would all benefit by having a better-informed citizenry
less predisposed to hysteria.
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Newspapers are, if anything, worse than television. They distill real
facts down into stereotypes and platitudes and interpolate a rung of
writers and editors between readers and the facts.
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11b |
People in our society suffer from an unbearable isolation; even among
friends we remain hidden behind thick façades and social
conventions. It is a personal and social service to break these bonds.
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Conviviality and social agility are favorable words that mask what really
is a frantic, ant-like modern compulsion for constant superficial contact;
a little more true solitude would do us all some good.
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12a |
12b |
In the end, it is only the frivolous that separates us from the drain
filters and meatballs.
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I think I would be wise to reduce my life to the simple and essential,
eliminating seductive luxuries.
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That we are mortal - that there will come a time in which our memory will
mean nothing to nobody and in which we can play absolutely no part - is the
fundamental truth and dilemma of our condition and must be answered before
all else.
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Mortality is an illusion caused by mistakenly ascribing momentum to the ego
in the opposite direction of memory. Our finite span in time no more kills
us than does our finite length in space.
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