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[quote user="Byzantine"]And perhaps we are going to get in a semantic debate here.[/quote] No we are not... "I think an agreement to sell your labor" Fine [quote user="Byzantine"]in exchange for giving up some freedom[/quote] Fine [quote user="Byzantine"]the freedom to leave and seek employment elsewhere, is perfectly
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[quote user="wilderness"]He can choose to do that, but he can choose to not do that (though his choice to rid the slavery may at this point only change by using brute force). That choice to be a slave or not a slave is liberty. Even if his master chained him, the person could shout out in defiance. The master could tear out his vocal cords
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[quote user="Anarchist Cain"] [quote user="Harry Felker"]So I can opt out of government? [/quote] That's what we are trying to do. [/quote] Are you sure? That really is to say "We are free, so I can opt out of government TODAY? [quote user="Anarchist Cain"] [quote user="Harry Felker"]So long as the advisor
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[quote user="DD5"] Are you saying that the entrepreneur will strive to increase supply as long as he doesn't suffer a loss? Why should he behave in such an irrational way? The entrepreneur will strive for maximum profits, not maximum supply! It is this last point that is crucial to understand for it is exactly what makes the capital allocation
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[quote user="Anarchist Cain"]You cannot choose to become a slave for like I stated, slavery is an involuntary state.[/quote] So I can opt out of government? [quote user="Anarchist Cain"]Therefore Byz will choose to have an advisor/mentor who will governn him as to what is best and what isn't while still retaining the final decision
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[quote user="Lord Shore-Twilly"]I suggest you try again, but this time to some research. I advise you start with the British National Crime Survey , and work from there.[/quote] Is that the survey that under reports crimes as accidents until proven otherwise??? I cannot trust a person who is happily in a place where the means of defense are
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[quote user="wilderness"] [quote user="Anarchist Cain"] [quote user="Byzantine"]Yet most of them are happy with the arrangement so long as they're getting paid[/quote] That doesn't show that freedom is alienable. Many fight out of some misguided sense of nationalism. [/quote] correct liberty is not a good... it
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[quote user="inquisitiveteenager"]An increase in supply lowers the price of the product[/quote] True, it makes the manufacturer more competitive within his business field... [quote user="inquisitiveteenager"] but if this interferes with their profits then there would beno incentive to increase the supply. [/quote] Only if there is
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[quote user="Lord Shore-Twilly"]If you would like further education in the history, laws and geopolitics of the UK feel free to contact me via private message.[/quote] http://www.reason.com/news/show/28582.html I have enough here...
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[quote user="GilesStratton"]Of course, it's not like libertarians would know this of course, they lack all three of those and the balls required to go into war alongside them. [/quote] [quote user="GilesStratton"]Whether or not you feel that wars are justified, the soldiers involved certainly do, and often they're more than