Isaac

They don't need to. They only need to know enough to make a fair assessment of their liabilities. Like any pricing or valuation, it's an estimate not ...

Why would it? Your tax is a rate, averaged over a fixed time period. Your employer could re-negotiate your wage daily, or even hourly, but the cost of...

Your income is your wage, the question doesn't seem to make sense.

Yes. Your taxes pay for services which, if you don't pay for them, the company might become liable for. This changes the economic circumstances in whi...

It's no use just repeating what you'd like to be the case, this isn't an opinion poll, it's a discussion site. If you're not going to discuss the issu...

We've just established that what was 'agreed upon' included you paying a portion to tax. Let's try this. You sign a contract promising to build a brid...

Fair point. I suppose, though, I'd argue that a sudden paradigm shift still falls into the category of a long-term project, just on account of its rar...

No, they just don't provide better protection than spreading everybody out six foot apart, which would be far and away the quickest way of killing the...

No, of course not. Surrounded by immune people the person's environment is being replenished with live viruses (albeit at a slow rate), surrounded by ...

I just said, being surrounded by immune people is better than being surrounded by non-immune people. Are you having trouble reading? And also - 'herd ...

Less safe, obviously. The main source of viruses for the vulnerable person is other people. If there are no other people around her the viruses in the...

So we need to first establish what is your 'property' and what is the 'fruits of your labour'. As we've now been through several times, your pre-tax w...

That's correct, yes. The numbers of virus particles in that room is smaller than the population in the vast majority of even asymptomatic carriers and...

Yes. Correct. All of which are still much much larger than the quantities they remove from any environment (which, don't forget, were going to become ...

Yes, and we agreed that your employer was aware of the proportion he expected to go to the government. Are we just going to do all this again? Your em...

Both show the same fundamental misunderstanding of his viruses work which you were told the last time you posted this crap. The viruses in the environ...

It wasn't a fucking Gallup poll. It's supposed to be a discussion, you support your opinion with reasons. "Me no like poor" is not a reason. You sugge...

Then quit work. Idiot.

God knows where you're getting all that from. I haven't even hinted at 'my world', all I've done is shown yours to be inconsistent, a matter which you...

Oh dear... Ha! Mine were the opposite when they were at home. "Do you really need that light on!". I may have overdone the indoctrination a bit... My ...

Yeah, I've actually had this exact conversation with @"NOS4A2" before. we reached...https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/509272...then No...

Yep. I assumed they would want to. Does that seem like an odd assumption to you? Did you grow up wanting to be one of the Orcs in Lord of the Rings? S...

So? You've still not provided any grounds on which the money is the property of the tax-payer. I'll ask again, on what grounds is the pre-tax wage you...

I believe it does. You're just confusing social identity with political affiliation. They're not the same thing. How so? Is rejection of societal norm...

Build your own road and use that.

Then he didn't give it to you with the expectation that you'll keep it did he? He gave it to you with the expectation that the appropriate proportion ...

The need for law will be part of the policy decision. Something on which 100% compliance is required and advisable might be best made law. The claim i...

Are you saying your employer is unaware of the taxation system? Obviously if you don't like the system you need to present the alternative.

Hopefully the successful enaction of said policy among exactly the number of people the policymakers are relying on. Policymakers make policies which ...

So your grounds for ownership is that it was given to you? Is everything given to you automatically yours? I'd hate to lend you a lawnmower. Moral int...

That's not what I asked. On what grounds is it your property? Then don't use the roads. You've no argument so long as you're using them.

Great, then we'll start again. On what grounds is the pre-tax wage your property? Then you've seriously misunderstood the arrangement. Do you get chuc...

Depends entirely on where you're standing, what protection you're wearing, how good you are at seeking cover, your chances of disarming said gunman......

It doesn't get more true just by ignoring the arguments to the contrary. You abandoned the last thread in which you made this ridiculous claim because...

Review our posting history on this topic (a topic of science primarily). Who do you think would exceed whom in a count of the number of scientific pap...

Good point. Although, on topic, maybe them doing their thing and then shuffling off was their last act of greatness! I was doing you the credit of ass...

I don't see anywhere me claiming to be immune or objective. As for figuring out why you believe what you do, it wasn't my intention. The part of my po...

Yes. I agree that how bad one has it is not always a subjective judgement. In terms of 'judgement' other people judge on our behalf too. My point is t...

You've had the errors pointed out to you in the last thread in which you made this same appeal, there's no point in doing it again.

What makes you think you'd bring up 'just another consumer'. Don't do yourself down. I'm sure you've the potential to bring up the next Ghandi, or MLK...

That this kind of bullshit is one of the reasons why serious debate is next to impossible. Laymen weighing in with a superficial understanding of the ...

Yeah. Worse still, as Baral and dozens of others in public health have pointed out (to stony silence from the media), it draws attention away from the...

Depends how shockingly, narcissisticly selfish you are. Usual standards these days - probably not. Anyone with even a shred of compassion for their fe...

I'll repeat the advice from the experts I posted in the main coronavirus thread. The blood is on the hands of the people whose responsibility it was t...

Who's 'we' in this?

Interesting. So what do you think is going on in the child's psyche? They see violence, understand it in their simple way, but when a teacher explains...

It's telling how readily 'expert' opinion is wielded and dropped depending on it's correlation with current social group ideology. Experts from public...

I can't see how you think children don't know what violence is. There's two aspects to this - there's the fact about what violence is and then there's...

I don't really understand what you're suggesting. That we tell children that domestic violence exists? What do you think that will achieve? What does ...