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[quote] 'My assertion was that the successful and brutal execution of war in destroying the axis powers led to the most peaceful, prosperous, stable, and free europe in history. ' Right, the Cold war didn't happen.[/quote] And yet is was still "he most peaceful, prosperous, stable, and free europe in history." That's a historical
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[quote] States carry on perpetuated errors for generations and make little attempt of even fixing the existing problems they have. They have no economic reason to improve. I know that you guys like to lie about Hoppe's comparison of monarchy and democracy, saying that we advocate feudalism and ignoring the actual argument for an anarchic natural
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[quote] [quote user="Laminustacitus"]As hayekianxyz has pointed out, if anarcho-capitalism were to be enacted in a sudden period of time, all of the tacit knowledge regarding the rules of society and social relationships would have to once again emerge in a completely new society [/quote] Thats your assumption, people seem to have an awful
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[quote user=""]The stoics were fascinating in their ideas and like Epicureanism,I believe their philosophy is somewhat misunderstood.They did not oppose emotional per se just 'passion' or emotions that are without rational reason equivalent to phobias for example.At least that's my understanding of them.[/quote] What the Stoics
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Snowflake, I notice that your data, wherever it came from (I don't consider data without a source to be credible, by the way) does not even bother providing the data for the textbook example for the advocacy of vaccines: small pox. Ergo, it is guilty of sample bias.
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[quote user=""] @ Lam, How do you know? I find it ironic that you tell an-caps that they can't predict how an an-cap society would work, yet you know that Warlord Inc. isn't going to care about its reputation. [/quote] Call it a hypothesis, but it is a far more believable scenario than: Blogger X: "Warlords Inc. has been commiting
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[quote user=""]Now that vast amounts of information are available at the click of a button, companies that try to cheat or abuse their customers must face the wrath of the blogosphere and the chance of having their reputation destroyed. The result is that companies are becoming more and more transparent. This is another reason for thinking
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This is one single, massive strawman. "Combat" is a very ambigious term that doesn't express much meaning unless given content, if you really wanted to make a point, you would have to work harder and show the scale of all the hostilites the military of the United States was involved in.
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[quote user=""]The North Korean military uses outdated equipment which would do poorly in a conventional war[/quote] The North Korean border on the DMZ is so well fortified with so many soldiers and artillery guns aimed at the South Korean border ready at a moments notice that any conventional campaign against it, even with the latest technology
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[quote user=""] [quote user="laminustacitus"]The same thing goes with the idea of God presenting no fears.[/quote] I thought his point of this was that the gods were distant in the kosmos and uninterested in human affairs.[/quote] And my point was that, like the Epicurean concept of death, that does nothing to show that God provides