[vanilla swirl]

keep fer later

[tutstar]

Bfl

[ml/nj]

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), another secular thinker whose views are still popular in our universities went as far to teach that competition was evil.

Ban Chess Tournaments Now !!

ML/NJ

[Jack Hammer]

It’s also highly addictive in any form of government in which representatives are elected to office.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Some of the nanny-ish “code enforcement” the author cites is at it’s very worst in well-to-do suburbs where all the local officials are Republicans.

Conversely some bigger cities and run-down mill towns run by Democrats will leave you alone simply because they do not have the resources to send someone around to check the color of your gutters.

[rmlew]

The author of this piece clearly did not understand Leviathan. And Hobbes was not secular, he was a devout Christian who believed that the authority of a government comes from a social compact, not God.