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A great irony is that Taliban are running much of their operation through WhatsApp, an American company with American servers, owned by Facebook. http...

I hope not. But when I wrote that Greta Thunberg was petitioning world leaders to mitigate climate change and she received massive fan fare for it. Sh...

It is unjust to force or coerce another to make a choice. But you cannot force or coerce another to make a choice if that other doesn’t already exist....

Religious enthusiasm and secular enthusiasm are nearly indistinguishable, no matter the contents of their thoughts. I would prefer some religion to Ju...

The soldiers abandoned by leadership; the weapons, aircraft, and ammunition left behind for the Taliban; the utter failure that was the withdrawal. 20...

You can’t even fathom such an idea. What a drone. Confusing having a vote with ownership, control and autonomy is little more than casuistry in my min...

My opinion hit quite the sore spot. Sour grapes, no doubt. I don’t conform to anyone’s decision unless I agree with it. If authority cannot justify it...

It is a viable system of corporate management, but it suffers the same pitfall of political democracy: mob rule. Personally I wouldn’t want to work at...

I see it as a problem of identity. You are “wired up to receive the world”, which is presumably hidden beyond your vat, the skull. In this story you i...

In this case the soldiers are there to enforce the state’s orders. The police minister said, “As I have said previously, support from the Army will ad...

An unvaccinated person cannot be a threat if he doesn’t have a virus.

The assumption is that something exists between perceiver and perceived, that some kind of medium makes what appears to be direct observation of the w...

I was talking about military knocking on people’s doors, enforcing compliance orders. You’re talking about…me.

I love knowing I upset you more than the jackboot.

They have military policing the streets in Sydney, Australia, stopping people from doing things like going to their beach houses. Nanny-state gonna na...

If one’s identity is expanded to include the entire body, beyond the surface of the brain and nervous system to the surface of one’s skin, observation...

What if they do not have the virus and present no risk to anyone? The ethical implications of quarantining Typhoid Mary are one thing—her activities i...

His words were a defence of freedom of speech and thought. The quote was a reason he gave for refusing to hold his tongue. By censoring yourself you a...

The gestapo checking your vaccine papers while you eat. France has fallen. https://twitter.com/paoneantony/status/1424730996738568195?s=21

Such is the paradox. They apply racism to fight racism. Hence the term in the US “positive discrimination”. It’s good racism, the kind of racism that ...

Which inquiry?

Nope.

I’m also not shooting or doing backflips over human beings. I don’t know where we’re going with that.

Many things determine wage— job requirements, pay standards in your industry, the size of the company, geographic location, supply and demand—but this...

They apply it.

I just don’t see how that works. If the income tax is the product of a tax rate times the taxable income, it is impossible for an employer to know wha...

If I miss a day, have less income to tax, and therefor have less tax to pay, should the hourly wage change to reflect that?

If I miss a day, and therefor have less income, should my wage go down as well?

Do you hold that an employer includes what I will inevitably owe in income taxes into the wage? I don’t see how that can work.

I don’t agree that the “agreed upon wage” includes some implicit condition that I pay a percentage of it in taxes. If I refuse to pay taxes I don’t ow...

I certainly ignore the concept of “the Other” and of race, but only because I think they collectivist crutches for people incapable of individuation, ...

Just to be clear, I’m not an abolish the government kind of guy. People are too dependent on it, that to abolish it would be cruel. I’m not even into ...

I’m aware of how the income tax system works. It applies to most forms of income, not just what employers pay in wages. But the question of whose inco...

I walked away because you’re boring and difficult to read. That’s not something to be proud of.

I already did. It was the agreed-upon wage for the labor I provide. On what grounds is it the state’s property?

The “appropriate proportion” is defined by the state, and is added to the cost at the expense of the consumer, in other words, people like myself. It’...

No one uses all roads, though. Not only that but it cannot be shown that one’s taxes go to any specific road, or if they go to Raytheon missiles, or s...

No, of course he is aware. Whose property is my wage? There is no alternative to present. The monopoly is total.

No, I’m not borrowing it. It was given to me on the assumption that I get to keep it. If it’s not my property, whose property is it? Not only should m...

It was given to me. Is it someone else’s property? Why would I not use something that I’ve already helped to fund?

A wage is payed to me for my labor. Do you think it should be payed to someone else? I am well aware that roads aren’t free, and I use them because I ...

That’s not what I said.

I don’t remember the argument but sure I’ll try to defend it. I use roads all the time.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11514/mask-vaccination-and-the-delta-variant/p1 People without the virus won’t spread the virus. So why woul...

I did not request those services. So why should I have to pay for them?

Like you, Fitzhugh lamented wage labor, capitalist exploitation, and was fervently illiberal. It’s neat how the tandem desire for control can make sla...

I’m well aware of the concept of wage slavery. I just don’t believe it is accurate at all, especially when used to describe employment in general. Vol...

Do you apply these pseudoscientific taxonomies to human beings?

I believe that “race” is a pseudoscientific taxonomy, and that whole swaths of people should not be demarcated within those abstract boundaries. I bel...

All I fail to apprehend is the classification of human beings into pseudoscientific taxonomies, which are as ridiculous as the day they were born. One...