Selecting a judge on the basis race, gender, and “diversity” has nothing to do with justice, I’m afraid, and everything to do with the perversion of j...
I like her idea that evoking “freedom of consciousness”, or applying freedom to other metaphysical spaces, is irrelevant. Freedom is the prime concern...
The author of the article might had fared better with Isaiah Berlin's distinction, which seems to me less muddled. Berlin's versions of liberty, posit...
Right, only man in his government form can flatten ground and lay asphalt. Sure, set a bunch of bureaucrats to do the jobs you refuse to. That’ll work...
It surely is a right. My behavior is such that I allow you to use it, yes, just as my behavior is to allow you to speak when I give you the right to s...
Nah, it was just a joke. But it is immoral and unjust. In my opinion yes. The so-called Night-Watchmen state suits me just fine. Beyond that it should...
That’s very admirable. Now you just need to organize with others who do the same and on a grander scale. Do the work instead of demanding it if others...
We were talking about the poor, just to be sure. But it appears you’re talking someone broken down on the side of the road. Would you extend the same ...
Fair enough; my apologies. I’ll just say the American left used to uphold freedom as a guiding principle, and the void has been filled with statism, c...
I completely agree that we should care for those who cannot take care of themselves, so long as they want our help. But I believe stealing people’s mo...
Perhaps that’s where we differ. I don’t see how being payed a wage for one’s voluntary labor constitutes slavery while having a monopoly on violence a...
Ready-made identities suit us perfectly. We don’t need to consider a person on his own when we need only apply an identity and be done with it. Of cou...
I thought it was obvious I wasn’t speaking of some “general individual happiness”, which sounds to me incoherent. Sorry, I should have been more clear...
If you mean most of the collective will be happy, you’re speaking of a majority, not the collective as a whole. So, again, you’ll need to sacrifice in...
I wasn’t intending to “flex”, just to offer my opinion. The utilitarian concern is the problem to begin with because it sacrifices individual happines...
First and foremost, become an independent. Gather with people of like mind instead of like affiliation. Avoid authoritarianism and make freedom a guid...
All this is true, at least in my own case. I prefer the concrete and physical to the abstract and immaterial. But it’s more a preference for dealing w...
The American’s in power right now are the same ones who meddled in Ukrainian affairs during the Euromaidan events. Par for the course, for them, so th...
The road to hell is paved in good intentions, goes the old refrain. The belief we can force society to resemble some utopian vision is the problem to ...
Which socialist society appeals to you? Kampuchea, Cuba, North Korea? Eritrea? East Germany? Resist falling under the spell of socialism, if you can. ...
I don’t think a system of voluntary cooperation is as disreputable as statism, because statism is a system of compulsory cooperation. That’s why I won...
Experience could be construed as the state of a living body, perhaps. But beyond that it cannot go. Both the body and thus all states of the body diss...
It’s completely voluntary, and the opportunities myriad, far more than would be available to him should the the capitalist be absent. We could exploit...
The other conclusions beg the question. They assume that an entity or substance exists within the biology but is not the biology, and second, that thi...
Not only Marxists, but Georgists believe in roughly the same thing regarding exploitation. But Henry George was able to devise a far more just system....
As far as I can tell there are only two types of general “means” to acquire the wealth required to satisfy needs, namely, (1) through one’s own labor ...
Yeah I like your threads. Well yes, I don’t like starving to death so I work. Having a place to work and receive payment for my work is therefor a ben...
Sometimes I envy them, sure, but envy is a great motivator. To me it’s very kind that they would start an enterprise at which I can work and be render...
We know that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics wrote socialism into law and declared in their constitutions the abolition of capitalism, private...
The act of managing resources for the common wealth would require a monopoly on the resources, a cabal of managers to govern it, and an army of worker...
It seems to me that that the category “those incapable of non-lethal self-defense” would also include those who lack the strength and numbers to defen...
“Capitalism” has always been a collectivist bugaboo, anyways, forced into the economic lexicon and seemingly left there. So it’s strange to see those ...
I’ve always understood that suicides make up a majority of firearm fatalities. But as far as I can tell the right to self-defense arguments still stan...
Leader of Oath Keepers and 10 Other Individuals Indicted in Federal Court for Seditious Conspiracy and Other Offenses Related to U.S. Capitol Breach T...
If I own something, someone else does not. Wow. The clouds part and I am finally enlightened. That’s exactly why I said there no justice in expropriat...
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