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So the Bavarian Beer Cafe should be allowed to hire Bavarians only?

no. it has nothing to do with supply or printing (though of course the notes were, by definition, 'printed'). it is the simply the result of demand for physical cash balances. i couldn't say why for the demand, though. maybe ATM fees, paying employees off the books, evading GST, etc.

they're like rats

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So you're saying that, rather than a claim of absolute truth, Islam's virtue is functional; it is a response to the dilemmas of human behaviour and cognition; a life saving device, like air bag. This is not bad wording. The cost/benefit analysis is the same, but the rubric is changed; one is...

Moreover, if you are impelled to act out of a personal fear of a retributive god, you have made an explicit, albeit spiritual, cost/benefit analysis.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

Here's a better question. I have this personal relationship with this god dude (I can't prove it - just run with it okay). He's a tempestuous bastard; he demands utter obedience; complete subservience. He's asked me to kill my son. What should I do? The hypothetical cuts both ways, and more...

There is literally no evidence to suggest that religions have any special claim to being conducive to the proliferation of mutually beneficial behaviour (i.e. enlargening 'the tribe') than any other arbitrary foundation of common identity. Indeed, like any arbitrary foundation they serve to both...

And, pray tell, what can your religious teachings be traced back to? Whatever. To determine the relative merits of any religion - Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism - to calculate the costs and benefits, pros and cons, is beside the point. Your religion is not premised on its relative merit...

not really. le bon david never spoke of such things.

So it should.

the irish are pretty much the muslims of the west

Robert Pape's idea is that suicide bombing is related to military occupation, not religion per se. But the question is why did the Irish Catholics refuse to sanction suicide attacks (they certainly had the expertise to do so, after receiving mentoring in terrorist/insurgency strategy from...

why do islamist extremists frequently employ the tactic of suicide bombing while catholic irish republicans did not (though they did employ proxy bombs)

If an action has a purely egoistic imperative, it can have no moral worth. The implication, therefore, is that a man whose piety is impelled by the plight of his soul in the afterlife is not such a moral man after all. Morality is instead founded in the everyday phenomenon of compassion. The...

yeah but kant was a fucking idiot. if every man must find his own categorical imperative than the kantian house of cards will always collapse in itself. kant speaks of autonomy but teaches submission. i would hardly think he would argue that an act is morally objectionable if enough people...

Their religion condones violence by definition. If they were not to condone violence, they would not be Muslim.

They kinda were.

The texts of Islam sanction killing in self-defence and in retaliation. That's kind of one of the biggest differences between Islam and Christianity; the New Testament makes no command for killing and violence in retaliation; the verses that do are to be found in the Old Testament. You know, all...