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Mandelinople City Rules
There are several rules that you must live by:

  1. Ignorance will be punished with banishment. It is permissable to hold contrarian positions. However, if you speak whereof you know not, leave.
  2. Espousing someone else'e ideas is not permissable. For example, if you claim that France is our "traditional ally", and you fail to mention multipolarity, Kajeve, or France's traditional hegemonic goals, dating to Mazzarin, leave.
  3. Espousing a commonly held legal principle, especially one that is wrong, will not be permitted. For example: it is held by many secularists that our laws are not based upon Judeo-Christian religious philosophy. If however you choose to ignore:
    Cicero:

    This, then, as it appears to me, has been the decision of the wisest philosophers---that law was neither a thing to be contrived by the genius of man, nor established by any decree of the people, but a certain eternal principle, which governs the entire universe, wisely commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. Therefore, they called that aboriginal and supreme law the mind of God, enjoining or forbidding each separate thing in accordance with reason. On which account it is that this law, which the gods have bestowed upon the human race, is so justly applauded. For it is the reason and mind of a wise Being equally able to urge us to good or to deter us from evil.
    or, you choose to ignore:
    Locke:

    The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason,which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it,that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker; all the servants of one sovereign master, sent into the world by his order, and about his business; they are his property, whose workmanship they are, made to last during his,not one another's pleasure:
    Not to mention Jefferson, or every author of the Constitution, then you will need to leave.
  4. Personal responsibility is required. We are all entitled to unlimited opportunity. However, there is no guarantee of success. That is what makes society the wealthiest, strongest, and most secure. If there is one undeniable fact in life, it is that socialism in any form or size will fail miserably.
  5. No operating system from the state of Washington will be permitted. This might seem contradictory to a free city, but we have to maintain a secure technological environment. Only unix and derivative operating systems will be allowed. That means: OS X, linux, BSD, Solaris, and anything that isn't a petri dish for viruses, a open door to hackers, and doesn't send personal data back to the mother ship without user permission.
  6. Firearms are required and not only may they be carried at all times, but they must be. An armed society is a polite society. Plus, any government that distrusts its citizens is no place for me. Tax breaks will be given for 1911 model .45's. You will be not be allowed however to carry Beretta 92.
  7. Taxes will be low. If we don't have the money, we won't do it.
  8. Education is necessary:
    As Aristotle said: The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. And since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private.
    Education will be taught in a classical manner, with emphasis on humanities. Students will learn history, philosophy, mathematics, and rhetoric. Sciences will also be taught, but we will never sacrifice the intellectual for the practical. A thinking man is a free man. A trained man is a slave.
  9. There will be only one sport: football. No explanation is necessary.
  10. Killing unborn children is a violation of the most basic of life's principles. Humans are endowed by their Creator with the right to life. Any citizenry that kills its unborn kills its soul.
  11. Marriage is between one man and one women.
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