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Well to all the colorful socialists out there. If you are pro justice and just "men" handling. Why are you for socialism? If you have money in your pocket every cent counts. You and nobody else decides what's something worth for you. You want to support childcare? Well where's the problem...
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I'm currently reading Bastiat the whole collection. I ordered it from Mises and it was again some eye-opener I got from them. To be honest I did not not of the austrian schoole since maybe 3 or so years ago. Despite the fact that I studied at least some of the political economics. However Mises and...
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Anyone here who could tell me why it's ok to request that others have to pay for one others ideas? And why it's not ok, to ask that one's payments should be to one's own preferences? Why is it ok to ask for "justice" and mean "take that and that away from those, those or...
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Just one other question. Does more laws mean more justice? Please check the sheer number of laws today and in the past. What's your finding?
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I've written about it before. And the same holds this time. I have not really checked the published items. But if just 1/10 of it is true than we are talking about more than 10000 murdered people. This just shows it very clearly what armed forces are all about. The reactions of the politicians are...
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While the Associated Press blames the disaster in the Gulf on the lack of regulatory oversight, the White House's call for increasing the liability cap on oil companies belies the real culprit in this mess. Previous legislation capped oil company liability at 75 million. What reason could there possibly...
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Man, Meaning, and Freedom
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William Green
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Thu, May 13 2010
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Filed under: government, libertarianism, litigation, BP, law, oil spill, environment, justice
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(Originally posted at damienmanier.com) The way we punish criminals and restore justice is very important to our overall crime prevention strategy. It is important to establish a punitive system that will exact the right amount of punishment while also bringing about justice and restitution to the victim...
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The concept of coercing those who have indirectly benefited from either racism, or sexism to pay compensation to those who have been negatively effected is a ridiculous legal concept that holds tyrannical potential. However, not only is the program nigh impossible due to the fact that the amount that...
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Fifty Cents Worth of Justice is better than millions of dollars spent by the California justice system. Fifty cents is all it would have cost to have saved the life of a little girl. Fifty cents. And not fifty cents per day, like they tell you on those commercials for saving some little kid in Somalia...
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I certainly agree with all who were against the bank bailout, as the banks work hand in hand with the Fed to create inflation and rob us of our money, but the auto industry is not in the same boat as the banking industry. In practice I am in favor of a Federal bailout of the American Auto industry though...
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Jared Diamond has an interesting essay at the current issue of New Yorker, " Vengeance Is Ours ", that is worth considering. In the essay, Diamond not only describes the moral and political economy of cycles of personal and inter-tribal vengeance in one of the relatively stateless area of the...
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My rhetoric class is now reading articles about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The topic is very intriguing, and many in class have professed a wonder about how they had never heard much about the subject growing up through their education, largely public. Hmm! Little coverage...
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Apropos Austrian Aphorisms
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thedo
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Thu, Apr 17 2008
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Filed under: injustice, World War II, Japanese-Americans, public education, War on Terror, government, enemy combatants, justice, internment, civil liberties
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this is a response to one of my more moderate friends in a private message. I thought it to be worthy of general publication, so here is a short excerpt. One of the main tenants of my philosophy is that we do not have positive rights but only negative rights. Not the right to have food, medicine or shelter...
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The growing use of tasers by the police and the invention of novel non-lethal weapons have led to calls to ban or restrict their use. The two sides of the debate are usually identified as the "civil libertarian" left/liberals versus the "law and order" right/conservatives. The liberals...