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You're probably right. Perhaps it is inevitable, the product of proximity.

I don't understand your point, Tim. Perhaps this is because you insert quotes where your own thinking could have been.

You are right. I do not believe in any common good that must sacrifice its own members in order to reach it. That to me is a fundamental contradiction...

Theft, robbery and forced labor are evils the last time I checked. If it is true that the impact of these consequences depend on your circumstances, a...

I am not persuaded. To me, willingly paying for goods and services are not the same as having my wealth coercively taken from at every transaction. If...

In the case of food and shelter, one can choose between a variety of options. If a loaf of bread is too expensive or too stale I can decline to purcha...

The idea that lab mishaps are rare is piffle. According to this report from 2014: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/reports-of-inc...

I assume by “a say in government policy” you mean I get to tick a box next to someone’s name once every few years, the effect of which is slim to noth...

It is unacceptable wherever faulty generalizations are of any concern. But that concern rarely exists.

The transfer of my wealth to the state occurs at the point of every single purchase I make. In which of these transactions do I get a say?

If I do not pay my taxes I am subject to many penalties, up to and including jail time. If I do not pay a the federal or provincial sales tax on food ...

That’s true. Taxes and the spoils of taxes are ubiquitous. Those in power have confiscated the wealth from the citizenry since time immemorial and hav...

Maybe you should just skip to your argument be done with it. It’s unbecoming wen you start begging me to answer your questions.

Only servile soyboys are glad to pay taxes. You don’t know whether your money goes to blowing up children or Joe Biden’s pencils.

Not much of an argument, I’m afraid, though I did put a comma where a period should have been. I never wrote about having a say in how private health ...

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll take a look. Maybe I do underestimate the harm of private money. That’s why I’m wondering why I should believe I am de...

How is it exactly that concentrated wealth deprives a few million individuals from fielding and developing new ideas? I ask because if I see concentra...

Racism is a form of prejudice. And no, it’s not ok to be racist against a person or people because someone who has similar racial characteristics happ...

I like your way of considering things. Thanks for the insights.

What system would that be? I ask because when I look for these things I only ever see individual people, separated by the fact of their position in ti...

Shortly after birth one is excised from his mother, thereby severing any connection to anyone else. There's nothing arbitrary about this very real unc...

I always understood coercion to be persuading someone with the use of force or threat of ruin, like extortion, torture, blackmail. It's like "duress"....

I cringe every time someone evokes the "social contract" because it is always in the service of power. But there is no such contract between you or I ...

If I understand your problem correctly, I would argue the interface functions as it always would, except that each would refrain from coercing or othe...

In my mind individual freedom entails the polar-opposite of slavery, allowing the right of an individual to control his own person and property. In pr...

Caitlyn Jenner hits from the woman's tee in women's golf tournaments. Maybe she's not the best person to ask after all. https://golf.com/news/caitlyn-...

You're missing out. They were right, brave, and decent. Perhaps give them a read and it might dispel your assumptions. Back in those times they were f...

Each rocket Hamas fires is a war crime. If they commit these war crimes using civilian shields, it's a double war crime. Though it appears Israel does...

I think the first to second wave of feminism was inherently individualist. It's hard to roll your eyes reading the abolitionist and woman's rights cha...

People are too busy enjoying their rights to want to fight for them. This habit will be the deathknell of social democracy. Despite this, one must aff...

A governments role should be to secure the rights and freedoms of its citizens, but more often it secures its own interests and monopoly on power.

One can’t deny thrust of anti-individualist arguments, for instance against avarice, but they fit better as arguments against human nature rather than...

If it stands alone why didn’t you just leave it as is? Instead, much of the sentence is missing.

I clearly said it was fallacious. I’m not sure why you’d raise that question.

We will never forget that time millions were easily duped into believing gossip and lies. Secret Sharers: The Hidden Ties Between Private Spies and Jo...

That’s easy to do when you can remove much of my sentence. Contextomy is also a fallacy.

Of course I agree. In my mind the collectivist rhetoric only serves to disguise the authoritarian impulse. What’s feigned to be done for the whole is ...

That’s one aspect. Another is to treat words as poison, drugs, or pollution, capable of manipulating matter in fantastic ways.

This kind of meddling is little more than a racket at this point. It’s a hard no, for me, when that which is the cause of the problem presents itself ...

Zombies are not real, friend.

There was a case a few years back where a woman was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for texting her suicidal boyfriend that he should just get o...

Israel needs to end its military occupation and return the land it has annexed. Only then can it begin to claim victimhood. No one has to excuse Islam...

It’s true. Rights are best secured by those in power. But those rights, whatever form they may take, are subject to their whim and can disappear with ...

I don't know about that. Private people, organizations, charities etc. are quite capable. You yourself are as well, but you'd rather beg the state to ...

I can, will and have helped people in need both with my money and my efforts. My efforts and concern extend beyond begging the state to take care of p...

I think they should be helped, of course. Do you afford them these rights?

I don't realize that because the state also denies rights, or otherwise granted themselves selectively: to nobles, the wealthy, members of certain rac...

Yes, because you are enslaving and denying the rights of individuals. I've never heard of that angle but there might be some out there who hold that p...

No, do you?

The state is a paternalistic institution, so your analogy is quite apt. Unfortunately, I'm one of those whiny little bitches. I see taxes as forced la...