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How do the neutered propose to protect themselves without guns? They call upon others who do have guns.

I don’t think there is a ghost in the machine. I also don’t believe in a brain in a vat. The self extends beyond the brain and it’s activity but not b...

I was disputing the argument that “Words/information cause reactions”, and that this is the reason that advertising works. I wasn’t saying advertising...

Yes; we hear articulated sounds and observe marks on paper, among a seemingly infinite deluge of other details, all of which are factors. But this is ...

I’ve never used your slogan. No need to make stuff up. Governments are large employers, even corporate in nature, but you don’t like when someone spea...

A connection, influence, the words caused me to go buy something—it’s all figurative. None of it negates the conscious, decision-making process, which...

The government has done such a great job.

Remember when it was the parent’s job to teach their children about sexuality?

I don’t go out and buy something whenever I see an advertisement for it.

What is the connection?

Alienation isn’t the feeling of estrangement, but an act of hostility that causes someone to feel estranged. So an unalienated worker is someone who d...

They are crimes according to some species of legalism, but they wouldn’t be if people refused to do what they were ordered. So despite the legal theor...

Good. Repubs are equally as evil, in my mind.

I appreciate free speech too much to punish someone for speaking.

Bullets can tear through a person’s body. Shooting someone is justifiably a criminal act. Words possess no such force, have zero connection to another...

For what?

Slavery was once legally sound. Philosophically, it’s magical thinking. Speaking cause little more than the movement of air. Speech is an act but word...

Then it’s their stupidity that led them to do it, not the words of someone else.

Do you go out and kill cops if a politician says such things?

Because words do not cause any such crimes

Nope

People should not be prosecuted, jailed or impeached for the sounds that come out of their mouths. But, as that era has proven, the bar has already be...

The COVID pandemic proved who the fascists were, and it wasn’t Trump. Now they have all the power they need.

I have zero faith in the American justice system, but some hoaxers are finally being put through it. Michael Sussmann: Clinton lawyer 'lied to manipul...

Nagel’s most important insight is that humans aren’t bats.

The belief that everything must be “bridled” by an elected group of bureaucrats is ideology in the strictest sense, a superstition far deeper and obse...

Not too different. The National Socialists, Italian Fascists, and New Deal liberals developed surprisingly similar systems to inspire and control thei...

Looks like Xtrix came back for a read. A glutton for punishment, I guess.

I’m not sure if this is lost in translation or not, but you’re equivocating between two senses of “history”. You might know something of history in th...

A minute later....

Good riddance.

The Public Good. Is that the same as the State?

All of that is irrelevant to our exchange of eggs.

The fact you cannot prove that all transactions throughout history are just does not entail you cannot prove that some transactions are just. Some can...

Doesn’t make it not so, either. It is impossible to prove and thus nonsensical to believe every transfer of a possession is unjust. Not all of us are ...

I appreciate your opinion. I don’t think it’s too difficult to ponder. If my chicken lays eggs and I give you a dozen that sounds to me like a just ex...

It’s either unjust or it is not. The cognitive dissonance must be painful.

If you think such transactions are unjust, how can you be indifferent when the state does it?

Historical. The question of whether a distribution is just depends upon how it came about, so one has to examine the history of the transfer and acqui...

Isn’t “black-pill” some incel shit? It might be best to avoid guilt by association.

Rawls’ theory of justice is what Nozick called an “end-state” theory of justice. Such a theory proposes that redistribution must lead to a just state,...

Only if you see them as a means-to-an-end. But as an end-in-themselves they are priceless. How can one put a price on something that is original?

The business is forced to deduct taxes from the gross wage and sends it to the government on the employee's behalf, leaving the employee with what is ...

Why would there be legal implications if the tax is voluntary? If the transfer and acquisition of the exchange was voluntary and consensual, it would ...

No, taxation is not a secret. When you accept a job, do you agree to the gross or net wage? You gave me a false analogy. You’re using an example of vo...

It could be possible you and your employer agree to net pay where you live, which might explain my confusion—but then your agreed-upon wage would be s...

I wouldn't describe it as an imposition, myself, because no one is imposing this activity on me. I just think it is a burden and its fine to be pessim...

I think you’re right. The technological growth of human history and “progress” could be the evolving effects of our attempts to mitigate this burden.

Apology accepted.

Oh dear, are we speaking in questions again?