Does this decentralized system involve any bureaucratic state apparatus which would dictate who produces what and in what quantities? I think that wou...
Well I think it's wrong to say chaos cannot do anything, that's precisely my problem in fact. I view chaos as something that DOES something, but does ...
Well potency cannot actualize itself - infinite potency (in the absence of act) is just infinite nothing - it doesn't do anything, it cannot do anythi...
Sure. So the fact it is a vice/sin (immoral) isn't a sufficient ground for us to outlaw it. So how do we choose what we outlaw and what we don't? We'l...
Why would you say chaos is unlimited potency? Afterall, potency without act is nothing. I would characterise chaos as lacking in pattern/predictabilit...
Not totally unrelated to morality. But for example, gluttony is a vice/sin, and yet we don't outlaw gluttony. So the fact it is a vice/sin isn't suffi...
To me, it seems that you're the person who wants to destroy Sauron using the One Ring. You'll become just as bad as he was. I'd rather destroy central...
It depends what you mean by capitalist. Does someone like me count as a capitalist? I think entrepreneurship is vital for the economy, perhaps the mos...
I do want to be rich, I think I'd be a good administrator of the money to tell you the truth. But that doesn't mean I'm pro-rich as a social class. I'...
To be more clear, I am not pro rich as a social class, if you thought that, then that would be wrong. I am pro the possibility of getting rich. I thin...
The reason for that is that the rich should be breaking their brains to do something productive with that wealth, not keep it growing while doing noth...
It is true that thinkers prior to Aristotle did associate potency with chaos (I'm thinking primarily Anaxagoras {I think it was}, but I don't see this...
You can record this moment in your calendar, and if you're right you can laugh at me the way I laughed at you when you so confidently predicted Crooke...
Sure, I have no doubt about that. However, I don't think that Trump's budget is the equivalent of inviting them to piss down that body's neck. We'll s...
Hmmm - but there certainly seems to be a difference between act and order/chaos. The Aristotelian act/potency dichotomy seems to be beyond the dichoto...
I guess the other issue here is whether order is primordial, or chaos is primordial. If order is primordial, then chaos would emerge out of order. But...
Ah yes, my bad. No idea why I made that confusion. Yes, I would agree that that is too little as an increase on average for the bottom 20%. The other ...
But it seems to me that most people who go into government seem to be the worst kind of individuals in the first place - privileged, went to the very ...
I think anarchy works in small communities. Larger communities will need a very small state, preferably a non-democratic one - ie constitutional monar...
No, the remedy is very simple. Get rid of the power of government, then the rich cannot become more politically influential in the first place. Power ...
I've read that, and I don't agree with it. I see nothing wrong with making a lot of money in and of itself. It depends what the person does with that ...
Oh so just comparing EPA to defense increase, is that a fair comparison? :s Defence isn't even the biggest source of budget spending: https://media.na...
If Gaia theory is true, is it possible for our planet to have feedback mechanisms that will cool down the planet in response to our pumping of CO2 in ...
In fact, I did call the police one time when I got my place attacked in the UK and guess what - they came in 2 days, and ended up doing almost nothing...
And to get back to the point we were talking about, you were wrong that the percentage of poor people that pay a higher tax is greater than the percen...
Nope, not 35.5% will see their taxes go up. Only 6.8% will see their taxes go up: I don't need the state, I need a community of people. I've further c...
And I don't really agree with super high taxes for the rich. For example, I'm someone who spends a lot of time working, studying and learning. If in 2...
Did you not read that 26.9% of the richest 20% will actually see their taxes go up? Did you not read that 22% of the next bracket of rich will see the...
Yeah of course, because their income is already small! When you apply a percentage to a small income, you're not going to get a huge dollar amount ret...
The US needed budget cuts even if we were to ignore the tax cuts that Trump seeks to introduce. Also tax cuts aren't just for the wealthy. So the so c...
The issue is a lot more complicated than your simplistic picture. Yes he does cut out budgets for several state programs that were meant for the disad...
Ha ha - I think that's China's gambit. They want a fool in the region who they can manipulate and maybe start a conflict to expand their sphere of inf...
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