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[quote user="Clayton"] As for what constitutes the Rite of Spring, we have to say that it is whatever human beings recognize to be the Rite of Spring. Let me explain. [/quote] --- or better yet, you can just let the market demonstrate it. For instance, if hordes of people line up to pay admission to attend a performance of The Wall, it does
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Thank you for this post, Mikachusetts. This is a breath of fresh air! This post of yours is probably the most ingenious application of authentic libertarian thought to the world that I love: music. Maybe this might give you a bit of clarity: The problem with the libertarian IP debate is one of confused definitions. We are using fallacious concepts to
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[quote user="Laotzu del Zinn"][quote user="MaikU"] I am more interested about how you would deny the premise that only you have legitimate control over your body.[/quote] That's easy. You say "no you don't.' They're both just assertions with no real meaningful basis; that's why you have to throw in that arbitrary
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[quote user="Lady Saiga"] I pretty much entirely disagree with your analysis of the drowning man thing. Once you know about the situation you have a choice, [/quote] That is correct but with all due respect, your libertarian quest for knowledge has reached a brick wall that will never come down. First of all, you are right. The good samaritan
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[quote user="Michelangelo"]Even so, it isn't neccesarily clear just how much inconvenient using more than one currency would be. [/quote] It is clear enough by the very fact that virtually nobody in the USA offers to use or accept a competing currency for day-to-day transactions and yet, nobody knows about legal tender laws except for
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What is at play here is the inconvenience of having to use more than one currency. If taxes were very little or avoidable, there would be little inconvenience to convert one from the other. However, that is not the case in our current state of affairs. In our current state of affairs, taxes are all over such that you would have very few opportunities
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Michel, We are living in the year 2011 right now. The mistakes made in ancient Rome have no bearing on how people will succeed in a stateless society.
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In all probability, even the most heinous people would be ostracized. It is cheaper that way. Free market prisons will work in the same way that leper colonies work: the people living there will deal with it on their own.
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[quote user="Wheylous"] [quote user="Charles Anthony"]I believe the state leads us to live with a dependence upon technology that would not otherwise be affordable without the state[/quote] I don't think the problem may be this large, but I am currently thinking that government may have at least initially created an over-investment
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The state forces you to pay taxes ONLY in state-printed currency. You can not pay your taxes with any currency you want. Since taxation is in virtually all transactions, even without legal tender laws, taxation makes it practically impossible to use more than one currency because of cost. Legal tender laws would not be a problem if the state allowed