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Question: How high is your IQ Mr. Wolf? Answer: High enough to survive the Winter you Silly Wabbit / Ravishing Rabbit / Great Grasshopper Can someone please walk me through the origin or share data points on how and why Classical (Greek/Roman) civilization was able to come up with and value ideas and principles like Self Defense, Property Rights, and Freedom of Speech? How about voluntary exchange aka Capitalism, when exactly did that originate, rather than just warfare or self-sufficiency. Or do these ideas come from a mix of ancient tribes and groups, and which groups specifically how and why?

I wanted to share with you a discussion I had with Larken Rose. Actually, I wanted to share another discussion I had with a libertarian friend, on the same topic. The short version is: Larken: I rather die than kill innocent people Me: If you take a human-shield, YOU are responsible for his death, not I ...and it goes to: "Eyal, one fine test of how stupid someone's philosophy is, is to ask, if the whole world shared that philosophy, what would things be like? Well, if the whole world believed as YOU do, as soon as ONE act of aggression occurs, there will be perpetual mass murder, as the victim slaughters innocents in the name of "self defense," and then some of HIS victims do the same, and so on, forever." "Larken, what you're doing here is a Red Herring, as the issue is not the universality, but whether we recognize Israel's bombing of Gaza as self-defense or not." If you find the topic interesting, I invite you to read from the attached screenshot(s) (I'll upload the other discussions/debates later) Screenshot: (debate with Larken) https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D7790656_95600811_928427 Screenshot 2: (debate with a friend and his friends) https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D7790656_95600811_929516 Screenshot 3: (debate with random anarchists on Jeff Berwick's wall) https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D7790656_95600811_937136 Screenshot 4: (debate with the same guy from screenshot#2, again) https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D7790656_95600811_938601 I also recommend watching this video by Pat Condell, which I posted in those debates: And this short video too And just for laughs: The entire situation in less than 1 minute video http://tinypic.com/r/2mmir9s/8

I have just watched an interesting documentary about the maltreatment Australian natives receive, even now, from the Australian [white] government and society. Utopia (2013) by John Pilger https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UtnKwvi-TzY This is, of course, masked under lies, coercion, and legislation. The natives seem unable to resist all that is happening, and, naturally, suicide and self-harm are extremely common, within their tiny communities. This leads me to my question; a question I have been pondering and examining, for some years, but without avail. And so, I ask you... In the face of those who devote their lives to harm and violence, to amassing weapons and shields, and who dwell in lies and the ruthless manipulation of others; what can a community [or group] of good people do? In other words, how can such a conflict be resolved, even temporarily, when confronted with those who dedicate their lives to destruction? Will it come down to better and smarter weaponry? And better and smarter shields? Or will there be no immediate solution, and rather, all of us who are currently alive, must suffer the fascists, and only attempt to "save the future"?