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Offhand, it doesn't smell like hacker news to me. Here's why: it's already touched off a thread on politics. I'm not convinced that these things don't degrade with time. And I am certain that in any case, as hackers, our "comparative advantage" is not in discussing politics.

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Another view would be that it is everyones responsibility in a democratic society to vigourously (but respectfully) debate how that society should be structured.

Yet another view would be that to remove one's self from political discussions with one's peers based upon other, unrelated criteria, such as one's perception of one's self as a hacker, only serves to underestimate the broad capabilities of the human mind.

I like to talk politics too, actually. However, I think it's an argument that is poisonous for sites like this. I don't want to see a bunch of links from mises.org, and the equivalent from the other side - I can get that stuff elsewhere.

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