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Uh huh. Go away.

What the * are you jabbering on about? What does a returned soldier have to do with the political spectrum in Australia?

Virtue-signalling Canadian pricks pinch all the best girls :(

And you're making Lance Armstrong rich again :)

I love a good Douglas Adams quote. All well and good, E Shed, and I can identify with the philosophy... but at the end of the day, when the oceans boil and the fish are all dead, the dolphins might regret not having paid a bit more attention to the world they lived in and how to improve it...

Wrong question. Try asking yourself one.

The pendulum swings very gently and very slightly in Australia, so Australians have a desperate need to pretend that light breeze is a gale in order to ensure their views mean something.

So, fear mongering then.

Concentrate and ask again.

My reply is No.

That was the conversation in question. You know, the one where you responded to me. Do try to keep up.

Because your answer wasn't relevant to the question. You were the one pointing fingers at extremists.

Yeah, yeah, and the ones on the left you always leave out too... Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot et al. What happens, do you think, when the "justified, proportional responses" are ignored?

It's one of the few I can still post in, you threadbanned me from most others. For calling you a fool, I think. The last time, anyway. So where does "twat" rate on the scale of thread ban worthiness? Twat.

Everybody did and does. Nancy Wake? Oh, and Mallory Archer.

What underlying principles would those be? Utilitarian? Retributive? Restorative? A blend of all of those? If so, in what measure? Procedurally and ethically effective by whose standards? It's fairly easy to say that an institutionalized system of law is effective. But the extent to which it...

Are you so sure? Hypothetically speaking, would you assume the number of miscarriages of justice made under vigilante justice was more or less than those made under organised justice (given the same number of incidents)? Going further, how many whose lives were completely broken would regard...

This I agree with though. KV is one of those who rabbits on about fear mongering, and then goes and stirs up trouble about a storm in a teacup like this. Not the brightest lad on the forum. I'd imagine there are quite a few scientists in Australia holding up test tubes, wondering exactly how...

No, they're right and you can't. The question was whether or not Anning should be removed from the senate, not if you liked him. There are those who dislike censorship in any form, and who would have voted no on that poll even if they did think Anning was a twat.

Explain, Elucidate, Elaborate, be Erudite.

That's "more likely", is it? Please, enlighten me as to who these "right wing nutters" are, and how it is they have the power to "allow" healthcare to become a commodity? Of course health care is a commodity. We all pay for it, directly as well as via taxes. It doesn't just magically appear in...

"Rights" don't exist, unless you believe in absolute morality. There are no such things as rights. There are only moral values which we believe are universal, but need to enforce by whatever means necessary and available. Are we going to tell people what to do? Yes. Are they going to tell us...

Up to a point, yes. But the comment was aimed at those who make a career out of complaining about the very thing they brought into existence to begin with, when it works against their own aims.

I thought the bit about self-protection in an overly litigious society was interesting. Australia will be in much the same boat before long, if we continue the tradition of pointing fingers and assigning blame for a cash profit.

And where and why, exactly, do you think all of those conditions and restrictions came to be put in place to begin with? Bureaucracy is the result of a desire for transparency, accountability, and oversight - which is, incidentally, your (by which I mean "the people") desire... is it not?

In many cases, yes, it may well be. People on here will often go on at length about our evil and ignorant forebears. Those white ancestors of ours who took Aboriginal children from their parents, who placed single mothers into Catholic-run sweatshops, fought in world wars to curtail the...

Yeah, I've seen a couple of these bible quotes popping up lately, and I don't think they're any more correct than they were as couple of thousand years back. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." A story about someone who talked a crowd out of stoning a woman because they...

Is no one going to touch this? No one at all? *I used two lines to make sure I didn't go down the rabbit hole too. Oh wait... three.

... and you lot wonder why you have so many problems.

I don't regard Malefice as any kind of historian, really, western or otherwise. An understanding of cause and effect isn't his strong point. Reading what he's written above, I'm getting a distinct impression he believes nazism arose because... they were German, and prone to that sort of thing...