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So it is implied that saying "my morality is right and not yours" is forcing YOUR morality on others?

Currently studying philosophy at my second year of A-Levels. I'm interested to see this communities response to some of the questions we ask in class. I'll leave a few up here for debate:

1) Is a God necessary?

2) Does morality exist?

3) What is the value of art? (Hentai included of course)

Is there a meaning of life?

If there's no God will that lead to the collapse of morality?

Are utopia's possible?

Come on Raze and Sindalf took time for these and these they deserve to have their work on here.

Add "/download" With out the"" on the url address of the doujin.

https://www.fakku.net/manga/just-a-sudden-impulse-english/download

We already have a basic version of that.



Black titles means that you clicked it.
Red titles means that you haven't clicked it.

I would like a "read later" option. The title(s) would then pile up to a list. There should be two options next to the title: remove (or) read and add to favorites. The list should preferably be next to your Favorites.

http://whistleblowers.freehosting.net/federal_power.htm
http://www.udel.edu/htr/American/Texts/fed.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_reserve_system/index.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/22/power-grab-at-the-fed/
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-09/wall_street/31040431_1_interest-rates-big-banks-member-banks


Is there anything more I can link that proves that the fed is a private institute, the only control congress has over the fed is that they appoint the members. They can't even audit the fed.

The sad thing is? Half of SD would probably agree with this video

If it has been brought up as many times as it has, don't you think logically it's already on the "rejected ideas list" or the "hmmm good idea, we'll see about this 2 years from now list".

Oh this again!

If you have a certain favorite artist just bookmark them and look at your bookmarked page now and then.

Damn I got work Sunday, but I call Ravens 34-28

I'm gonna go ahead and assume you don't know what state sovereignty is Lelouch.

Anyhow, concerning Lollikittie's comment, this is, and I'm sorry to say, horribly ignorant of the law. State sovereignty only means that what one state does, cannot be infringed by another state. But there's a fine line between that, and saying the federal government shouldn't be able to overrule a state's law.

Under the latter system, we are no longer a democratic republic, but a confederacy of states. That's not what we are, especially in accordance to the constitution. The constitution allows the states to make laws that aren't addressed by its wording and interpretation. And under the decision of Roe Vs. Wade, abortion is in fact a constitutional issue, meaning, if any one state tries to outlaw it, it will be taken to court, and it will be shot down, in accordance to the constitution.

Now it's time for "how do laws work Lundi?"

So here's the deal. Laws and rights are determined by the strongest factor that has the will to power in the world. That's horribly simplistic but bear with me. States, have small governments, that all fall under the territorial purview of one single government, the United States Federal Government. The United States Federal Government is allowed to make whatever law they want, so long as they have precedence for this law. That precedence includes constitutional interpretation by Supreme Court judges, or at the very least constitutional lawyers. If the federal government makes a law, then that law is up to the president of our government to enforce among the states. If a state makes a law that is in contradiction to federal law, then the federal law wins, unless, when taken to court, the Supreme Court or other courts decide that the Federal Law is unconstitutional(goes against the constitution, or is not authorized by it). So you might be asking how this isn't tyrannical beyond all measure. Why isn't it? Because the United States Government doesn't live in a vacuum. There's another entity that has more influence than it, and that's the United Nations. If countries that are members of the United Nations, and as such countries that are allied with the United States under treaties, say that the United States cannot do something, then it cannot do that thing, even in its own land. If it says the President MUST enforce a law he'd rather not, then he MUST enforce that law, or incur penalties. An example of both of these would be when George W. Bush signed an executive order to deny a Guantanamo Bay prisoner Writ of Habeus Corpus, and the Supreme Court informed him that under UN law(The Geneva Conventions) he's not allowed to do that, and struck it down. During Obama's administration, the UN pressured him to enforce the law against marijuana, even in states that had legalized medical marijuana, as such he had little choice but to enforce existing law in accordance to his allies' wishes, and send federal agents to shut dispensaries down.

SO! Why is THIS not tyrannical you ask? Foreign countries get to just tell our country what to do?! Well no, not that simple. See, the UN has no army. The United States, has an army. This is where power over politics comes into play. Without the United States army, the UN is, effectively, powerless to stop people from doing horrible things all over the world. Hence, the U.S. is allowed leeway to reject orders that can be sufficiently found to be unjustified, or superfluous. This is a reasonable agreement. The U.S. gets trade agreements and a stimulated economy, and in return it provides an army(and of course export/import business)for the U.N. Both can use their services to threaten the other to do what they want each other to do, but overall the most reasonable conclusion is reached.

What does this have to do with State Sovereignty? Well, imagine each state is a mini United States, and the United States itself is the UN. Same exact method.

In other words, it's perfectly fine when the Federal Government makes a reasonable, constitutional law, and states don't get to just not follow it because they don't like it.

But! I hear you protest. Abortion is not a federal law. No, but the issue was constitutionally decided upon. Which means that laws FORBIDDING its practice cannot be put into play. And now we've gone full circle.