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That's true. The corporation is the child of mercantilism. The state often granted single corporations monopoly on entire industries, which often led ...

I don't mind the concept of laissez-faire because it implies the state keeping their hands off of private affairs. But when corporations seek favor fr...

That's not true. The point is that all persons are individuals and I afford each of them certain rights. If her rights are violated I get concerned, n...

Sounds about right. Personally I find little affiliation with many of those groups but I am nonetheless concerned with how each member is treated by t...

Well said and enjoyable to read. Unfortunately for me I'm stuck at my desk, but I shall be out foraging for morels and oyster mushrooms in about 3 hou...

Because all units are individuals.

I like what you wrote. It reminded me that the schism is chalked full of irony. All collectives are composed of individuals. If you add it all up it b...

It’s true. Individualism is a problem for any collectivist project. Mao saw this well enough and wrote about it in his “Combat Liberalism. Mao’s solut...

I appreciate your nuanced view. And who knows? Maybe all this stuff will turn out well in the end. If so I will undoubtedly hang my head in shame for ...

Use my words as your tea-leaves all you wish, but I’ll add trauma and pain to my list of swings and misses.

Aren’t race-conscious policies and quotas a form of exclusionary, institutional racism? It seems to me if we want to rid the system of embedded racism...

Thanks, but I think you’re overestimating the power of words, praxis. The old child proverb “sticks and stones” still holds true, in my mind. So I see...

Back in the day if we wanted to know why someone did something we asked him. But yourself and others like to invent little tall tales to fill the hole...

I’m with you, but I fear CRT is the direct descendant of the old racism rather than its opposition. The idea that wider American society constitutes “...

So-called cancel culture is pretty much a milquetoast struggle session, so the comparison between the woke and the red guard is apt.

The main problem is those who acquiesce, grovel, and alter the world according to the woke vision, mostly for fear of losing some profits or reputatio...

That’s not necessary, pal. If I wanted high-fives and consensus I’d probably be on some dark corner of the internet by now. I feel zero pain from the ...

I’d love to see this common sense in action, but I have asked for proof of Trump’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in this thread for years now with n...

I’m rooting for you.

Begrudgingly, they did. But I also think the principle of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt need not apply only to those concerned with law, but...

True, except in matters of immigration. The Kingdom of Denmark gets to pick and choose who gets a permit to reside in Greenland. No so autonomous, I s...

True, but it is a tried and true principle. I can’t think of any reason we’d assume the opposite, but here we are.

That’s more a presumption of guilt than innocence, and there are reasons we avoid such tyranny in free society.

It looks like the case against Trump’s supposed hush-money payments was dropped. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/us/politics/trump-michael-cohen-fe...

By all means.

The “third camp” should reject statism, collectivism, totalitarianism, and embrace freedom. Only then could they resist using human beings as the bric...

Moving to Greenland and occupying land there is a problem because I’d have to contend with the Danish state’s monopolization of it all. I wager that h...

It’s an ambiguous term, says Chalmers. This is before he sprinkled in a little experience, feelings, and quality to make it worse. But it becomes more...

The inoculation of fake fallacies and quibbling.

All the more reason to go bother someone else.

Not bad. But I fear it will be prime real estate once you’ve had your way with the rest of the world.

I think there is a difference between moral behavior towards flesh-and-blood beings and moral behavior between abstract beings. Claiming moral behavio...

I would tell him happiness isn't all its cracked up to be. If Wonka forcibly removes them from their home and imprisons him in his place it would be i...

It wouldn't take much if he sacrifices a great deal of his time to provide, protect, and raise us to thrive in his world. I would be quite grateful, p...

Wonka is cruel because unlike the real world he never added things that cause joy, pleasure, laughter, play, and so on.

This sounds to me like meddling. Surely it cannot be that difficult to leave someone alone.

Virtue out of one side of the mouth, pettiness out the other. Perhaps the stoicism isn’t working.

I'm not so sure about that anymore. Is a critic still a critic if he is unfamiliar with the literature?

One can see, even from this thread alone, that individualism is held in fear or contempt. Yet there have been zero refutations of actual individualist...

Critics have been promising the failure of individualism since revolutionary France. Any day now, I guess.

I was merely explaining theory of state formation, and where our differences might lie. This was right before you called it a resentment-fuelled fanta...

I wouldn't say the state provided me with any moral framework. Has it done so in your case?

What is the thing that gave rise to this moral framework? In my own case, it was writers such as Humboldt, Mill, Smith, Locke, Hume, Popper, Orwell, A...

First it was a resentment-fuelled fantasy, and now all you can do is quibble about my use of the word "any". Tell that to the people who lived there. ...

That was my poor writing. I was trying to say your conclusion about my conclusion was absent any example or reason, implying you were guilty of that w...

I do understand, but I didn’t make the conclusion from one example. I provided one example after you concluded it was a resentment-filled fantasy abse...

Someone who tries to bully others on the internet, miles away from any accountability, shouldn't try to lecture others on virtue. You're the asshole, ...

I recall you dismissing the theory and resorting to ridicule. So please, explain the logical fallacy.

We watched just recently as the Islamic State (an actual regime) formed before our eyes. This was not due to any absurd notion of a social contract or...

You don’t have to, yet you do, 180proof. If you ever care to know don’t hesitate to ask. I don’t hide my views.