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Originally Posted by roachboy
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on the op:
i think it a lunatic idea that students should be allowed to wander around a university strapped. it isnt worth serious consideration---its just fucking nuts.
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hence the rationale from roach that he just doesn't need to debate the topic, because it's fucking nuts. 
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Originally Posted by roachboy
you see this limitation continually here: conservatives do not and cannot outline or defend the premises for their arguments. it's as if the relation to politics that is presupposed by being-conservative is immediacy, and its some kind of strange rule violation to explain how arguments work. the result is that there is no debate--there is the repetition of mutually exclusive claims ("left"/right) based on axioms/assumptions that are never articulated. you would think that if a political ideology is worth investment that it'd be worth articulating at a remove and amenable to being defended logically--you know, at the level of the in-itself (as ideology) and with reference to effects on the world (empirical falsifiability)...but no.
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a very interesting way to provide a juxtaposition of the liberal/conservative argument.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
that said, i doubt seriously that any organization the basis for which is an idea this laughable could possibly do anything in this regard.
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and yet in utah, and soon to be more states, are allowing this to actually occur. who'd a thunk?
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