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[lauralh]

Interesting post about why non-aggression doesn't apply in the case of wars. or at least this one. I don't know if I buy it, but I do know that I'm pretty anti-government*, so there you go.

*I'm not 100% against all forms of government, mainly just the ones that exist at the moment.
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I grew up with a lot of drama in my household. Despite this (or because of it) I tend to shy away from it. (At the same time I will sometimes pick fights with people just to find out if they're for real.) Nonetheless I prefer to approach conflict logically, if at all. My ex used to accuse me of trying to live a life of "tragedy" (IE dramatic situations), but I have to say, if I wasn't over it before, I think my new housemate has pushed me over the edge here.

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Cool find of the day: In Trillian, type out "(w00t)".

Comments

[kamakhai.livejournal.com]

hey, crazy. you've linked to my single least favorite person on livejournal. my apologies, but that is the absolute stupidest collection of words i've seen assembled concerning the war in iraq to date.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Is this better? (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16166)

Seriously though, I think it's more of a logical exercise: if government is going to fuck up, they may as well fuck up big time.

[kamakhai.livejournal.com]

i think it's the very weak attempt of an egotistical ex-military jackass (a homophobic, racist one i might add) to twist an ideology, one which it seems he subscribes to as an excuse to be an asshole and claim it's philosophical, to justify a preconceived stance. "I find that the right way of wrapping my mind around the issues comes naturally for me.... Invariably, every item I read by Libertarians is anti-war on Iraq. Invariably, all these Libertarians are wrong." since when is 'i can sense inconsistencies' a rebuttal? and governments are inherently evil and violent, that's why "I want our tanks to roll into Baghdad."?? this makes so little sense he should be a cabinet member in the bush administration.

[disarrayed.livejournal.com]

Government + me = nay
I don't hold a lot of faith in someone else controlling my destiny alongside the destiny of a nation, as well as the entire world. I've always fell in line with quotes from random people like Einstein, with the whole, "I don't know how WW III would be fought, but I know that WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones." I would be more inclined with government at a WW IV point, given that it would more than likely be a much more managable situation and all. I guess I just don't dig on authority figures in terms of ruling all. *shrug*
As for random acts of drama/dramatic situations, you would probably take elements of my life like heroin. I've almost been shot, almost got arrested, almost put effort into reforming a lesbian back into my girlfriend, and burned all of my chin hair off last night (not almost, did. The pics will be posted up sometime in the next few days.). I feel that situations such as those help me to deal with the more mundane things in life, in that looking at problems I face within scope and remembering the harder things I've come across, then laughing at the things people tell me are problems when I think of what I've been through. That's me, though.