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[quote user="liberty student"] [quote user="DD5"]You are not being coerced for you are not being forced to participate in this forum against your voluntary choice. The rules are a condition for participation authorized by the owners of this website but participation is voluntary! No individual freedom or private property of yours
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LS: Couple of days ago you asked me to explain the meaning of "a lot" of violence that I believe a realistic model of human self-interest MUST take into account . "A lot" means "enough" to make a society of free human agents unsustainable without uniform laws and enforcement. Refer to the following reactions: [quote user
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[quote user="E. R. Olovetto"] I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist. Does anyone else think that these morons who keep posting here, and often have stock avatars, are paid or part of some halfwit statist group though? [/quote] I'm actually a program (not very well) written by the CIA -- v2.0 Self-deprecating Edition [quote user="E
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[quote user="Snowflake"]Why is money alone not good enough? It is good enough for the military industrial complex...[/quote] Honestly, I don't know. I wish it was. I wish I could simply buy security and prosperity without giving up ANY freedom. I'm only observing that giving up some individual freedom (being subjected to a uniform
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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"] im sorry i dont do hints and appearances. give me facts and arguments or go away. [/quote] Is this coming from the coercive branch of the anarchist spectrum? May I propose that you simply disregard my posts while I continue my discussions with others? Net result would be the same for you, and slightly better for
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[quote user="liberty student"] [quote user="z1235"]To paraphrase Tom Cruise: "Show me an anarchy!"[/quote] I just described numerous systems in anarchy. [/quote] No, I meant literally. Please show me one now, or point to one that has existed in the past. [quote user="liberty student"] The onus on you is to either
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[quote user="Snowflake"]This is actually the anarchist position because you're saying we ought to consent to fund an MDA. No one is disputing that we should probably pay for security, we're disputing that it is optimal to be coerced into paying for security.[/quote] We have enough centuries of human history to at least HINT that perhaps
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[quote user="Michael J Green"]Like most statists, you confuse uniformity with top-down, coercive organization - ignoring bottom-up, voluntary organization. [/quote] I'm not ignoring bottom-up. I (and history) don't care how uniformity was achieved, as long it's sustainable and stable beyond the threshold required for a society
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[quote user="krazy kaju"] A gold standard would slow economic growth, since it would cause price deflation. Price deflation would occur because the growth of the money supply would be lower than economic growth, causing demand-for-gold to grow at a quicker pace than supply-of-gold. Price deflation is bad for the economy, since it prevents
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[quote user="AJ"] If you'd like to learn, bookmark and read this to gain a grasp of the subject matter. [/quote] Thank you for the link. I will be going on a long-weekend vacation tomorrow and will be reading the stuff from that list. Still, nothing beats a nice discussion like I've had here over the last few days. The best way to