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:( I hope my question doesn't get lost in the whole SkepticalMetal thing.
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Wait a second. In what way did Mises suggest the state should be funded? When did Mises say it had to be funded by taxation? Does anyone have a link or quote of Mises answering this? It seems like the first thing that should be established in the original post. (In case you're unfamiliar with other ways a state can be funded, here are a few: lottery
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Well what would prevent nukes from becoming that cheap? There has to be a reason. And why would nukes someday be peanuts? Peanuts, as in the nukes won't be able to hurt anybody? How is that possible? I would think that as technology develops, nukes will be even deadlier. Maybe someone will come up with a Doomsday Device for a million dollars or
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I love the pictures on the side -- especially the Australian flag one. XD It's important to note that fission and fusion bombs themselves are relatively simple to make. They assigned the task to a physics student and Princeton and he was able to design one. The really hard part is getting the nuclear material, which has to be enriched to (iirc)
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I finally got a chance to watch your movie. I thought it was pretty neat. There were two times during the movie when I laughed out loud. Movies rarely make me do that. I usually just acknowledge in my head that something was funny. During these two parts, laughs came out of my mouth uncontrollably: 1. When "Robert"? (the retired guy who hires
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Interesting take. Just note: It's important to clarify what you mean by legal guardian (that you don't think a non-consenting party to the sex that resulted in a child's conception has to be a legal guardian, though can choose to be). That is capital. I don't want to overload the thread with ideas, but what if the rapist himself was
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@ToxicAssets The issue is whether or not the implicit contract between two consenting biological parents (or only one in the case of rape [Edit: see A at bottom]) is a valid contract. A lot of libertarians (Rothbard, Block, etc.) argue that no implicit contract is valid. Although, I agree that the conversation seems a bit repugnant. I think it's
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@Wheylous: [quote] What if the rapist goes on to die? Does that mean no one is legally responsible for the child? [/quote] Hmm. Good point. If there was no prior arrangement for who would be responsible for the child in the event of the father's death, I suppose no one is legally responsible for the child (i.e. no one can be forced to take in the
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[quote] My point is that you didn't stop posting in the middle of the thread, as was implied by these two statements of yours: [/quote] Right. I kept testing my answer vis-a-vis yours. It depends on how you understand "debate". As in, try to convince you I'm right and only that, then no. If as in deliberative discourse, then yes, it
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Crap. I deleted my own post.