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    Confirmation bias, perhaps, but in general data helps underscore theory.
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    I think it's the affirmation of the inadvisability of inviting in people who do not necessarily share your values.
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    Deportations? Too late. You now have a "foothold" situation.
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    The difference is that you can check a logical proof. Checking with Jesus is a one-way trip.
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    I find it interesting that a discussion that Ben Shapiro is bad because he's an Orthodox Jew talking about Muslim extremism ends with the point that not all Muslims are like that. Did the list of surveyed values he described fall into extremism in your view or not? While it may be true that a random US resident is nine times more likely to be killed by a cop than a terrorist, that doesn't mean we should ignore terrorism. And, for the record, there have been tourists killed by terrorists. The Achille Largo, tourist kidnappings in Egypt, and the disco bombing in Bali spring to mind almost immediately.
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    Yeah, the "red flag" terminology sets the stage too starkly. These things are warnings, and if you find someone that's willing to learn, willing to garner self-knowledge and shows some real empathy, there's plenty to work with even if some things are not perfect.
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    Your comment made me think about the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was a far more bloodless collapse than any of us expected who lived through it. I think the level of spending the US got addicted to will lead to a similar collapse here, and I'm still wondering who will be our "Boris Yeltsin".
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    What I expect is a replay of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, where our Allies, our puppets, and eventually our states get tired of our crap and move for more independence or outright succession.
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    You cannot rely on security through obscurity. If someone wants to learn how to shoot, there are a lot of resources for doing so. Some people enjoy the discipline and accomplish from learning to shoot well, though. Still, I think that being overly charitable to people that will openly advocate against, if not fight against, you values is cultural suicide.
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    With that much poison in the well, why would we drink the water? I'll take a sip, though. Care to address the point he made that a significant portion of Muslims hold views that are radical if not harmful to the Freedom Club?
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    You mentioned Sharia law (Koranic) but Koranic law is rather non-specific on what modesty is. It is the cultural norm that defines immodesty. The refugees are used to a cultural norm that's much more covered, less forward, more submissive. Yeah, the grabbing and worse is not acceptable, but I'm betting that they will claim immodesty on display if pressed and that they should not be held to some standard they've never experienced before. We can only hope that the Europeans are adamant about their cultural norms being accepted by the refugees and not start imposing new codes of conduct and modesty to accommodate the incoming wave... but that's where this whole thread started.
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    The difficulty here is that Islamic law merely asks women to be modest, but local cultural norms are used for that definition. The culture in the middle east requires the hijab, for example, not the Koran.
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    If all it takes to get what you want is providing evidence of sustained virtue, how is that not a noble incentive? People respond to incentives. It's when we lose touch with one another and ignore these things that society becomes inhumane.
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    It may seem trivial to you, bu when the difference means perpetuating peaceful parenting instead of perpetuating abuse you may reconsider your priorities. We've already seen what trauma produces. Let's try something better.
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    Welcome to the Director of Unification!
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    That bad parent is creating a higher potential of crime and violence in his or her wake. Why would you support that?
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    There are so many religions in conflict with one another, I expect that the cultural value of religious freedom to hang on around here for quite some time. I do think it would be an interesting experiment to eliminate the civil courts (and deregulate insurance) and allow there to be competition in how people seek to resolve conflicts and offset risk. Competition amongst DROs of the secular, religious, and other varieties might lead to some interesting conclusions.
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    Individuals in a free society will express strong opinions about what someone foists upon it, and will be free to stop doing business with them if they are clearly a problem, or creating a problem. And stop talking to them. And might even spread information and protest to make sure everyone else knows about them.
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    Islam has the death penalty for "Fasad fil-ardh" so the perpetrators of these crimes should be put to death under their own law. http://islam.about.com/cs/law/a/c_punishment.htm
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    Ah, but when someone who has the power of the banhammer says "goodbye" it's typically considered authoritarian, and when it is over speech it's typically considered right-wing. That's why I suspected sarcasm.
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    I don't know. I spend a lot of probably wasted time trying to convince people that letting single entities wield too much control over them is a really really bad idea.
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    To my mind, abolishing government is not the first step. The first step is a return to compartmentalization. If no one single entity controls all of the levers that's an important step forward. This is why I prefer competition among the states and removal of Federal power in deference to the power of the individual states. Sure, all the states might agree on a single course of action, but even if they do it's not the same as the diktats of the Federal government.
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    I don't think it was clamping in 30-60 seconds, it was delaying for at least 30-60 seconds more than the current norm of one minute.
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