Nihilist and modern skeptic. I favor limited restrictions on personal freedoms and laisser faire economics. True freedom cannot be achieved with an authoritarian nanny state. Those who favor government suppression OF ANY SORT (including censorship)give government the tools through which to shackle freedom. Freedom gives us both the power to choose and forgo.

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Words to Live By

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster." Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism

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"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

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"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm (indifferent, uninterested) defenders in those who may do well under the new." Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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"Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful. " Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance."
Sun Tzu , The Art of War

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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." John Locke