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Open borders would double the world´s GDP.  I used to be against it, but a lot can change in 4 months.

Pharmaceutical companies already spend more on marketing then they do on research.  And most of their research is already subsidized by the government, and they're making record breaking profits anyway, so complaining about "the cost" is nonsensical.

If we are giving taxpayer money to private companies, that is a problem. There should be stricter rules on government-funded research with regard to patents, prices, etc. Without government aid, they should be able to charge however much they want, though.

This is in part because companies have made those incremental improvements to insulin products, which has allowed them to keep their formulations under patent, and because older insulin formulations have fallen out of fashion.

I agree, we need some sort of patent reform that allows patents for innovative and new products, rather than slightly altered old drugs. 

 The old and chronically ill pay less-than-they-cost, and the young and healthy pay more-than-they-cost.

Yes, the old do pay less than they should and the young/healthy pay more than they should according to their costs.

Now, how would universal healthcare plans by the government solve that?

Then whoever makes more money pays more, not based on costs. Private insurance companies should be able to cost-discriminate more.

Who pays taxes?  Who has to make-up for the money dolled out in tax-credits?  Tax-payers, that's who.

Nobody really pays for those tax credits. Have you seen our debt? Cut spending.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

And does God ever go back on, or change His word?

Gods word is the basis of morality

But we firmly agree though, that God is a wild assumption.

Israel's theocratic law was an eye for an eye.

In the NT Paul urges Christians to obey the laws of the land because God has allowed the ruler for a time. Now if that ruler is unjust we are to pray to God for that ruler and against the unjust practice. 

It is a precaution until the trial to keep the person in jail because of the risk of flight. BUT, in the court of law, the person is considered innocent until proven guilty. 

Hospitals actually get tax credits for when they take care of the uninsured in the emergency room, so not quite hitting the mark there. 

10 to 100x what I should be paying? Are you saying if I didn't have insurance?

Yes, the prices are inflated if you don't have insurance.

You know why new drugs and procedures cost so damn much?

Guess how long it takes to get a new drug...About 10 years. They need to recover their costs, and we lead the world in innovation for not price fixing.

Ukraine used him to gain influence with his father, just like China did. When the company Hunter Biden worked for (with little experience or know-how), was being investigated for its corruption his father said on tape that if they did not end the investigation they would get no aid. Quid pro quo (this for that). 

But it is not lawful to allow illegal immigrants to enter our countries unlawfully. They should be prosecuted for doing this.

I am not against protecting anyone from violence unless they themselves are threatening or violent themselves. 

What is more just than a convicted criminal, guilty of murder, proven beyond doubt, answering with his/her life? A life for a life if an innocent life was maliciously taken?

God's word, a necessary objective and ultimate reference point.

It would be based on the laws of the land we live in or even international law.

I went on to say that a few of the services that you outlined I was okay with paying for. I said I was perfectly fine with roads, police, and the fire department.

I was hesitant on some education and didn't see how healthcare for others helped me.

Now, paying for other people's food stamps and subsidizing single mothers who have 10 children is something that I would not support.

That doesn't help me.

If you want to contribute to those people, fine. Just don't force me to at gunpoint. 

What gives your self-righteous, entitled self the right to steal my property that I earned and give it to someone who didn't earn it?

Putting the charged in jail is a precaution so that the person will not run and escape justice and a fair trial if they are found guilty.

AND FURTHERMORE, IF YOU CAN'T INVESTIGATE A CRIME WITHOUT PROOF, WHAT CRIME IS HUNTER BIDEN ACCUSED OF??

You can't make up the crime and then search for evidence for that crime. There has to be evidence that a crime has been committed.

Trump has already ADMITTED to soliciting foreign interference in an American Election.  THIS IS AN ACTUAL CRIME.

No, he has not.

Religion also bases some of its belief system on what they call an historical accounting ex Jesus, yet there is no historical accountings of Jesus outside of the Bible.

I think that Jericho was punished for its hostility to Israel and not yielding to God's commands,

How does "love god and love others" inform copyright law and or property disputes?

Do not take property that does not belong to you. If a person wants to sell and you have the means, then buy. 

That doesn't mean Atheism and Anti Theism aren't sound positions. If it weren't for theism we would have 7% less war, many things theists have done like the crusades weren't wars but killed 6,000,000 people. Religious wars are incredibly bloody, the French war of Religion killed 4,000,000.

I don't believe that atheism and religion are mutually exclusive. Even the most extreme form of nihilism has a religiosity to it. You could certainly discern religion in the so called "scientific atheist" states such the Soviet Union.

Although you (we) have a will, a volition, I believe it is only free in that you (we) exercise it, you (we) choose.

I believe that all kinds of things influence our will and cause us to think or act in a particular way. We act in accordance with what we want and desire to a large extent.

Would you say that you would always take the moral high ground on every other moral issue? Why or why not?

No, not in self-defence, or law enforcement trying to stop a killer, or defend another innocent person against someone about to kill them, or in times of just war. 

All human beings.....equal worth.

But can you put your hand on your heart and swear that you stick rigidly to that moral principle at all times?

I see you no different than anyone else. I realize all human beings are given life by God and made in His image and likeness (although marred by the Fall), and deserve dignity and respect. Does that mean I do that at all times, or not get angry with myself/others, or am not selfish at times, or treat others always as I would like to be treated? No. I'm flawed, just like you.  

We have a standard to measure injustice against. 

Not to go searching for crimes but to investigate them.

Even then shifty Shiff is not allowing a due process or any fairness.

The law states innocent until proven guilty.

The Dems have already convicted Him of guilt without showing any crimes but they continue to look. 

OT Israel was dispersed during the victory and destruction of Jerusalem and Israel in AD 70. After that Israel could no longer live up to the covenant in the prescribed way they had agreed to. The curses of Deuteronomy 28 was poured out on them for their disobedience. 

Isreal was going into the Promised Land, before the exile, before the Romans. God had already brought judgment on Egypt for their harsh treatment of Israel.

God is concerned with His people and with their relationship to Him. He does not want foreign peoples to influence the way Israel worshiped or the way God was instructing them to live.

Jesus summed my morality up in two commandments, love God and love others. Those two commandments sum up the Tem Commandments. 

Please keep your Biblical nonsense in the Biblical religious forum as that is the only place it belongs.

Biblical non-sense is not philosophical. It is religious, mythological non-sense, with a few good morals thrown in as well as some historical info that is sometimes corroborated with other such recordings.

Either all human beings have equal rights or any kook like Hitler, or Mao, or Stalin, or Xi, or Kim Jong-un, or apartheid, or the caste system, or slavery in the South, or Rwandan genocide, can devalue and destroy human life and not be accountable since human life is not consistently seen as equal.

1} a mother, to fair to her two children, cuts a brownie into two seemingly equal size pieces,

ergo my previous givens again, as follows and hope that I'm clear and on point.  Freedom is sperate word and my feeling is less synonminous than equal and fairness are to ecah other;

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It is fair to say  --truth/fact--  that two electrons are equal to each other in property, not their spacial location.

It is fair to say that, Earth and Jupiter are both planets ergo equal in one respect and  of unequal to size.

It is fair to say that man and woman are equal in species yet not equal genetically is all their coding.

It is fair to say that equality exists a word to describe aparent attempting  fairness  ---repeating my above---   to two or more of her children.

Equality and fairness fair play is about balance and all three words are synoyms, or so I would guess.  I dunno as Ive not checked any dictionaries on this latter conjecture.

Equality and fairness fair play is about balance and all three words are synoyms, or so I would guess.  I dunno as Ive not checked any dictionaries on this latter conjectrure.

Eh, I'm pretty sure the original intent, the original use-case for government was to adjudicate disputes between citizens and to provide public roads and protect public resources like water and to protect citizens from foreign invasion and to protect property rights so the powerful (ranchers and or railroads) can't simply take your land by force.