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Ragnar_Rahl

21-year old male in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Updated:	1 Month Ago	Gender:	Male
Joined:	2 Years Ago	Birthday:	August 3, 1989
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Ideology:	Libertarian	Education:	Associates Degree
Party:	Undecided	Ethnicity:	White
Relationship:	Single	Income:	Not Saying
Interested:	in Women	Occupation:	Student
Looking:	Friendship, Dating, A Relationship	Religion:	Atheist

About Me:	I don't know why you'd want to concern yourself with this. If you do, ask me a question. Oh, and maybe so I repeat myself a little less, I CANNOT VOTE ON THIS WEBSITE NOOBS. My "looking" status is as it is primarily due to the requirement to be honest about keeping my eyes open. It does not go to the extent of bending my neck often :D
Beliefs:	I am an Objectivist, though more aligned with the David Kelley/TAS faction than the Leonard Peikoff/ARI faction. For those unfamiliar with this, it means, in short, that in matters of ultimate reality, what you see is what you get; that reasoning from experience and the abstractions made from experience is the root of all knowledge; that I live my life as an end in myself, and that the only societal arrangement compatible with these statements is the free market- the prohibition of non-retaliatory force and fraud against persons and their property from human relations.
Books:	Atlas Shrugged, the Wheel of Time series, the Sword of Truth series. This should not be construed as defining series as books, only as noting that the component books of these series are among my favorite books.
Music:	Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Rush, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Sergei Rachmaninov
Quotes:	" The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood (money) is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence."--Atlas Shrugged
Sports Teams:	Minnesota Vikings.
TV Shows:	FullMetal Panic, Excel Saga, Death Note, Case Closed, Family Guy

Websites:	Faith Project

141 Debates

Should the US have entered Worlkd War 2

I think the US had no choice but to enter WW 2 because Japan bomb us at pearl harbor that tick us off then also Hitler was dominting the world them 2 things was just getting us mad and causeing us more and more to enter the war beside World War 2 was the main reason we got out of the Great Depression...

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Updated 3 Weeks Ago

(In America) Your vote affects nothing. Our elections, local and national, are for show.

For this debate, I would like for the first rounds to be introductory; I will post the basics of my argument, and my opponent should follow with the basics of their rebuttal(s). In the second round, I will go further in depth with my reasoning, and address the issues my opponent raised in his introduction. My opponent should then follow suit, giving their reasons why I am wrong, including reasons why our votes do affect our nation. In the third round, I will address my opponents rebuttals and re...

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10 Comments

Updated 2 Months Ago

Immigration Fence

I was looking at your profile and I noticed that you were against the idea of having an immigration fence. Why? What bad things come out of it?...

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47 Comments

Updated 3 Months Ago

"The sleep of reason produces monsters"

The interpretation of that phrase, for the purpose of this debate, is the liberal interpretation, not the postmodernistic one. In the liberal interpretation, reason is perceived as good for humankind, while its sleep, produces the monsters of fanatism, superstition and the inquisition that destroys human freedom. In this sense, I agree with Goya, the liberal Spanish Painter, that "the sleep of reason produces monsters"....

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9 Comments

Updated 4 Months Ago

Re: The United States federal government should increase social services people in poverty in USA

We need social services to keep people from dying or suffering in the US....

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Updated 6 Months Ago

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Debate Statistics
Debates:	141
Lost:	52
Tied:	8
Won:	81
Win Ratio:	60.90%
Percentile:	99.71%

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•	Abortion	ProComments On the grounds that rights derive from rationality, a trait not present in fetuses.
•	Affirmative Action	Con
•	Border Fence	Con
•	Campaign Finance Reform	Con
•	Civil Unions	UndComments What form will this union take? See comment for gay marriage.
•	Death Penalty	Pro
•	Drug Legalization	ProComments As long as they are not smoked, smoking forces the chemicals into other people's lungs.
•	Environmental Protection	ConComments Private property owners, of course, should protect whatever they deem necessary, and be able to purchase such protection from the gummint, including lung protection.
•	Estate Tax	Con
•	Euthanasia	ProComments Note, that I have no intention of making use of this right, no matter the circumstance :D
•	Flag Burning	Pro
•	Flat Tax	ConComments Taxes are bad mmkay?
•	Gay Marriage	ConComments Marriage, gay or straight, should have no legal status.
•	Global Warming Exists	ProComments All the time, ever heard of sunlight? And yes, there's a long term trend involved. No anthropogenic origins have been demonstrated
•	Gun Rights	Pro
•	Labor Unions	ConComments Labor unions should be permitted to form- but, they should have no special rights, an employer has the right to make nonmembership (or membership) a condition of employment, they should not, if on strike, be permitted to block the path of replacement
•	Late Term Abortion	Pro
•	Medicaid & Medicare	Con
•	Medical Marijuana	Pro
•	Minimum Wage	ConComments Oh wait I do like the minimum wage. The lowest amount you should be able to pay someone should be whatever is in the contract you both signed oh snap. :P
•	Missile Defense System	Und
•	NAFTA	ProComments It is a complex document, but by and large, when socialists criticize it they have concrete answers. When libertarians do they don't have concrete answers. As such, it's clearly a document that is superior at making socialists unhappy, which, it happ
•	National Health Care	Con
•	National Retail Sales Tax	Con
•	Patriotism	ConComments The merit of governments depends on their actions, not on whether you happen to be the one subject to them.
•	PETA	Con
•	Police Profiling	Con
•	President George W. Bush	Con
•	Progressive Tax	Con
•	School Vouchers	ProComments As a temporary measure (in the form of tax cuts only), to reduce the number of public schools, in order to make the complete abolition of government involvement in schooling a more politically palatable transition.
•	Social Programs	Con
•	Social Security	Con
•	Term Limits	ConComments Why throw someone even worse in office just to avoid giving the one not as bad more time in office, especially when the chance of more time avoids all the agent-principal problems associated with lame ducks?
•	Tobacco Rights	ProComments This only applies to chewed tobacco, or patches, and such. Not smoked.
•	United Nations	ConComments The United Nations exists for two purposes- to render the victims of aggression impotent, and to degrade the meaning of rights.
•	United States	ProComments The alternatives are worse I'm afraid.
•	War in Afghanistan	ProComments Only to flush Osama out. Rebuilding the government there and whatnot is not a proper use of our time.
•	War in Iran	ProComments We are already at war with Iran, just in a curious state of cease fire. I do not favor escalation at this time, but neither do I support jumping through hoops to avoid it.
•	War in Iraq	ProComments Only the invasion, to destabilize it by removing Saddam and thus null it's value as a buffer state between Iran and Saudi Arabia, presumably making possible a war between them, saving resources for us. I do not support the occupation.
•	War on Terrorism	ConComments Terrorism is a tactic, not a foe. Besides, then we'd have to declare war on the perpetrators of the Boston Tea Party.
•	Water Boarding	ProComments I have no qualms about the torture of those who are proven guilty, for purposes of gathering intelligence for military use (not, mind, for courtroom use).
•	Welfare	Con
•	World Trade Organization	ProComments As far as I can tell, the only criticisms libertarians have directed at the WTO tend to revolve around it either being a public organization (what else they expect to be able to stop other public organizations I don't know,) or being "dictatorial," a