Philosophy Topics

I suppose you might be one of the 4 billion people who have supposedly watched the opening ceremony of Olympics in Bejing so there's a good chance there's no need for me to introduce you to what it is.

I still define liberty as a state of being in which you're free to do "whatever floats your boat as long as it doesn't sink mine". From my perspective this reflects non-aggression or non-coercion and obviously requires tolerance. It is predicated on the belief that even while you believe others to be wrong about their beliefs and their acts to be evil, you would not interfere by force if they don't initiate force on you or anyone else.

Wouldn't it be correct to assume that responsible use of technology equals use of technology in a way that doesn't disrupt freedom (so it empowers everyone rather than empowering a minority at the inevitable expense of everyone else)?

Part of the reason I'm asking is that even as I established that a vision of the world set in front of Libervis Network, as it's most general goal, is a world in which technology is used in a responsible way, I still somehow draw a direct parallel between that concept and freedom.

Because we're debating what political system is "right", it might be fun to play this little nation simulation game for a while, and see how our opinions work out in prac... er... someones theory. I've played it before a few years ago, it hardly takes any time, and it's free and funny. So let's play !

After creating your own nation, please move it to the region named "Libervisia". The region password is "www.libervis.net", without the quotes.

I was reading about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama bickering about his African roots when the thought occurred to me: "Why the hell does it even matter?"

Indeed, if he is an US citizen and cares for the US society and their future why does it matter where he came from? And this catapulted a way of thinking about grouping of the world into countries not by their nationality, race, blood lines and other personal histories, but by their current preferences. In an increasingly globalized world, moving from place to place is becoming more common place. (uh.. an accidental pun ).