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In your libertarian utopia what it done about people that can not serve in the military due to disability? Doomed to be less-than?
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In your libertarian utopia what it done about people that can not serve in the military due to disability? Doomed to be less-than?
GasBandit
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Man, this takes me back 20 years, and the first time we had this discussion on the PvP comic messageboards. That exact question was raised by... I think she called herself ~*ShadowyDreamer*~ or something like that. She was in a wheelchair.
Since it was a discussion of the heinlein system, the answer was "the military will still take you, and find something you CAN do, even if it's not combat."
But that doesn't fit your "must be willing to risk your life for the country" criteria.
GasBandit
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Hey, if a paraplegic is willing to try, I'm willing to meet them halfway on this.
Plus, she'll have new company real quick:
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Also, it just dawned on me that most of the people who will get to vote after service will be the ones that didn't end up on the front lines... since they'd be the ones that would have almost 100% survival rates.
It doesn't matter how small the government is, the one thing that will never get any smaller is taxes.
GasBandit
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FairTax.org.
Psst... Heinlien was a fascist and this is an intentional facet of fascist government. They send the proles to the frontline to die so the elites can control democracy and so those who would rise against them aren't present in the state and are likely to be killed.
“Anarchist corporatocracy” sounds more like Laissez-faire capitalism, not Libertarianism.
—Patrick
GasBandit
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Heinlein was not a fascist. But you could be forgiven for thinking so if one's only knowledge of his work came from the Starship Troopers movie.
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He was, however, the dirtiest of dirty old perverts.
Which featured the same system of determining citizenship that you advocate.
GasBandit
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That's basically the only thing that the movie got from the book, besides character and ship names.
You're right. It would be more correct to say that he started out a fascist and then LOST. HIS. FUCKING. MIND. with a little bit of pedophilia. It's like he rode a V2 rocket through a nebula of pure LSD and never came back.
Unlike Piers Anthony, whom basically has to announce himself to the neighbors every time he moves at this point.
GasBandit
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No. He. Did. Not.
And rape. Don't forget the rape.
Man oh man, the Adept series was as close as I could get to porn from my middle school library, though!
*looks around, are these folks having a variation of a religious discussion? Yep.* *adjusts hat, moves on.*
I see the British government is following Trump's lead in refusing asylum claims from members of violent religions. Like Christianity.
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Thankfully it's not that simple; Congress still controls much of the DoEd's budget.
It's in her proposed budget.
Not speaking to the other cuts that may be there, but given how corrupt and awful an organization the IOC is, I actually support cutting whatever public funding that even might get routed to them at all. If the Special Olympics is separate, then OK, but the IOC is just awful, so even if they have this "good aspect" to what they do, they're still horrific. If this means having a different organization for the "equivalent" of the Special Olympics, I'm OK with that, but anything to the IOC is flushing away money to corrupt bureaucrats. They're not a charity, they're there to make money.
The special Olympics is a completely separate entity, the IOC only allows them to use their name.
I wonder how long this will last. A New York county banned unvaccinated (for measles) kids from public buildings.
GasBandit
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It's not clear to me exactly how they're going to enforce that (apart from schools). It even says in the articles they're not going around public buildings demanding to see vaccination records. Maybe they should.... but then it starts to feel a little "Papers, please."
Theyve pretty much said it's symbolic.
You're either leaving out D.C. or Puerto Rico.