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it's bile. Why is it bile? well you'll know what once you know why it exists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-02rSjE9618 thank you ABC Hungry Beast

The Liberal Party survives off Big Tobacco donations for their monetary edge. Both have equal donations from major blue chip companies The Greens and Labor recieve a little less funding than the libs do from their big tobacco monies. However many unions such as the nurses union no longer fund...

What is freedom an liberty?

In this Week's Economist they made mention: "hough the country’s best-known building is an opera house, for example, the arts have yet to receive as much official patronage as they deserve. However, the most useful policy to pursue would be education, especially tertiary education. Australia’s...

all lives are universally equal in their value.

If you can be taxed, you can vote. democracy is an odd idea in the history of political thought. So as far as i'm concerned the justifications for voting are intersted as a political science student. The idea that all people of a certain age can vote is radical insofar as it removes the...

How ought the world be?

I feel that is a source of the corrosiveness in our polity. which was well explained in this week's Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/18744197?story_id=18744197 I furthermore don't mind using such philosophies: the philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways, the...

Oddly there isn't any details of said proposed tax. So i don't know where this division is coming from. It is best to hold judgement until such details are out rather than speculating possibilities and making rash judgments on that. http://on.fb.me/ipVbk8

Stupidity is a very difficult thing to outlaw. http://on.fb.me/ipVbk8

Marx just like many other philosophers have critiqued the world. His main critique of the Primitive accumulation of capital (The Marxist Terminology: internal contradictions of capitalism) has been critiqued early as Adam Smith. It's basically the incentive of the system to accumulate more and...

Well no. The currency of power is denominated in money; therefore the more money you have the more power you have. Capitalism is only one general system, and we've had it since the 1600s. There are different variants of it. from 1900 to 1929 we had a laissez faire capitalist system, from 1930...

Well conservatives by definition have a political philosophy of conserving the status quo as the belief is society have evolved organically and therefore to disturb the status quo will have adverse effects. Therefore they may not be racist - they may exploit racist sentiments within the...

Not in the foreseeable future. SNP doesn't have the approval for independence, and no one in Wales wants to pull out of the Union. The Union will remain.

You have no idea how the rest of your cohort will do in the exam, let alone yourself. just remember when you apply for uni appy broadly. If i could suggest something apply for a BA at a uni if you don't know what to do, or doubt you'll get into Law or medicine. most law and medicine courses are...

ANU and Canberra are great. Once you get use to the cold and as you're from Chile you've had far worse, it'd be fine. ANU is one of the best unis in the world with maths. It's still one of the 10 most citied unis for maths and it has been for the past 25 years, so it's a great place to do your PhD.

There something wrong who rejects the knowledge of experts who have spent their lives studying and explaining phenomena. For Mr Abbott to reject Climate Change it is tantamount to him rejecting all knowledge and unilaterally asserting his supposed monopoly of the truth. Unfortunately without his...

Well don't even try reading his work until ender of undergraduate level reading, and only if you've done the background in philosophy and political theory. The man wrote in the most impossible elitist style of writing to prevent plebs from reading him, and it's been translated from German where...

Jurgen Habermas a German Philosopher and theorist of the public space argues that through 'communicative action' experts in physics, economics, ethics, aesthetics, etc speak to the people. explain why things are they are. thus by starting a discourse between the people with specific specialised...

Eugenics the pseudoscience?