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fr	Cet utilisateur a pour langue maternelle le français.

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This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of English.

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This user is a Lawyer.

E	This user reads The Economist.

This user is a minarchist.

This user supports
globalisation and free trade.

This user loves and plays Ice Hockey.

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This user's favorite song is "2112", by Rush.

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[edit] Interests

My main interests are Liberty, Law, Austrian economics, libertarianism, philosophy, epistemology and the philosophy of science and, first and foremost, the Quest for Truth.

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations)
Non ex regula ius sumatur, sed ex iure, quod est, regula fiat -What is right does not arise from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right- (Julius Paulus)
Particular intelligent beings may have laws of their own making, but they have some likewise which they never made (Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, book 1)
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton)
When words lose their meaning, people will lose their liberty (Confucius)
Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself (Confucius)