NOS4A2

Would you say propaganda works on everyone, without fail? It’s nice to know my words have an effect on you. Yours as well. And such an effect they’ve ...

Watch Christopher Hitchens yell “fire” in a crowded theater here: https://youtu.be/zDap-K6GmL0

Does another’s inflammatory words convince you to do evil, jorndoe? Maybe congress is just that terrible. These people are worthy of contempt. They ma...

It isn't an issue with the value—each of us are one of a kind, wholly unique, something the universe will never see again—but with how we value. We te...

I’m not so sure about that. If the monopoly on healthcare were to fall, I’m sure men could devise some other scheme that doesn’t involve them becoming...

I’m only aware of private clinics, with laws varying across provinces. Provincial laws here prohibit staying overnight in a private clinic, for exampl...

I think abolishing the state is a bad idea so long so long as people believe the state is required to govern their affairs.

We have private healthcare where I live. Meanwhile, our public healthcare system is collapsing.

Authority of any kind has to prove its legitimacy, especially state authority. It hasn’t. So I don’t think it has a legitimate role, nor do I think th...

It’s a point of fact that government was not required for healthcare, only that it has developed a monopoly on it.

No, I’m just wondering if you developed ideas, principles, and corresponding behaviors in a state that promotes war, slavery, bigotry, imperialism, yo...

And I just disagreed with you for the reasons I stated.

I didn’t say I want to go back to any sort of funding, only pointing out government funding isn’t required for healthcare.

And there is not one single value the that it hasn’t violated. It also promotes war, racism, brigandage, robbery, you name it.

I’m opposed to both, though I have always admitted my own statism. Slaves had certain benefits. Their master would feed and house them, for example.

You didn’t develop any ideas, principles, and corresponding behaviors as you grew up? How do you survive?

I was speaking of funding, not practices. I assume that had you worked in one of those places you wouldn’t require a public authority to govern your d...

I’m not convinced we should do without the state. I’m only convinced the state should not operate like a criminal organization. Your position reminds ...

Historically, hospitals have been funded from many sources, much of which were not from the government.

Sure. If you have a better idea I’m all ears.

I’m not so sure about that. The Catholic Church, once the most dominant influence in the west, has no such power. Centuries of “reformation” is all it...

If you lost your faith in religion would you still go to church?

How so?

You follow their rules for funding, not because you require an authority to govern your life. Presumably you would follow the rules according to any s...

Yes. You can operate in your day-to-day without some authority telling you what to do.

So they are not actually present or involved in your day-to-day.

Do you require their presence?

How much is the state involved in your day-to-day?

I think you’re right on that one, and well said. It might be feasible if there is some degree of voluntary participation. But wherever Engels and Leni...

The prevalence and ubiquity of an institution is due to the state of mind that prevails towards it, the set of ideas in which men tend think about it....

So did many great thinkers. But he proposed achieving such ends through statist means. That’s why it has never worked, and we see that communist state...

I would prefer a government that doesn’t operate as a criminal organization, a monopoly, and an anti-social institution.

Here’s how it works. You write a long clarification of misrepresented views like this: You find a clause—not even a full sentence or argument—quote it...

Questions answered twice. You didn’t answer the questions. Now let us talk about you as if you weren’t here. Cringe.

This isn’t an interview. I’ve expressed my views and you can shit on them all you want. If you wish to speak in the topic I’m all ears.

And here you both are, wasting your time, in everyone of my threads. I just want to talk about this stuff. Why are you both here?

A fully developed morality is a set of principles of conduct and behavior. It develops as one ages. Yes.

I assume that adults have some semblance of right and wrong which they develop as they age.

That’s an odd projection, especially since I have already admitted that I do not believe people actually need or want to be governed, that they wish o...

And there we have it. “State morality”. Personally, I wasn’t raised by the state, nor did I socialize with bureaucrats and politicians in my formative...

I don’t think you need to be governed. I think you’re an adult. I think your unreasonableness and propensity towards destroying another’s property is ...

The conquest theory of state, as I believe it anyways, is wholly influenced by Franz Oppenheimer’s The State. It’s a refreshing deviation from the soc...

Only a formal system of representation could come up with something like the Enclosure acts or the Decree on Land. Someone mentioned the Amazon earlie...

I don’t view the state as an ideology. I view statism as an ideology. Also, I do not nor have not called for a change in the future world order. I sup...

I’ve never read Ayn Rand. That’s the hilarious part of the accusation.

I never said it could. Why do you personally need to be governed?

I thought it was the superior man’s property.

That’s a misleading answer because it avoids the question outright and quickly enters fantasy. Elon musks private army will be of humanoid drones whil...

I don’t think he can. The state is by now so ubiquitous and so many dependant on it that its abolition would invariably lead to some form of tyranny a...

Yes, just ask. Maybe we can trade, maybe I can donate, maybe we can till it together. Maybe I’m naive but I thought theft and robbery would be the las...