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Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 October 2012 08:14:23PM 6 points [-]

What do you have against libertines?

Comment author: Kawoomba 05 October 2012 08:23:20PM 2 points [-]

Nothing; I don't aim to get rid of those concepts, merely the unneeded connotational ballast introduced by the word "liberty", the linguistic equivalent of the One Ring.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 October 2012 11:08:03PM 9 points [-]

the word "liberty", the linguistic equivalent of the One Ring.

Too much liberty makes you "feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."? Come to think of it there is an element of truth to that.

Comment author: RichardHughes 09 October 2012 08:21:08PM 3 points [-]

Decision paralysis is a cruel binding that falls only on the unfettered.

Comment author: faul_sname 05 October 2012 09:54:55PM 1 point [-]

Well, they tend not to be the most pleasant of people.