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  • Re: How did this comment go undestroyed?

    Wheylous pointed this comment out, but I wanted to as well: Humans are volatile, inconsistent and irrational creatures incapable of handling the responsibility of managing ownership. We have proven this time and time again. Our inability to control anything is an immutable flaw. A " volatile, inconsistent and irrational creature" is making
    Posted to General (Forum) by jay on Wed, Feb 22 2012
  • How did this comment go undestroyed?

    From the "Human Rights" as Property Rights essay on here. The last paragraph is just mind-blowing. I don’t know where to being. With respect, I disagree with your perspective of property ownership. The concept of ownership to begin with is erroneous. An example that I often use to demonstrate the absence of ownership is the “borrowed
    Posted to General (Forum) by jay on Wed, Feb 22 2012
  • Re: Ron Paul is racist

    "Now if someone is a racist it's not insane to claim that their racism probably has an effect on what they view as justified or unjustified violence," Maybe. Lots of people might be racist but it's merely a belief with barely any negative effect in the material world, perhaps because of social pressure to maintain order. I don't
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by jay on Fri, Dec 9 2011
  • Re: Ron Paul is racist

    Your non-sequitur is an argument against coercion, not racism.
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by jay on Thu, Dec 8 2011
  • Re: Ron Paul is racist

    Why give a sh*t if someone is a racist?
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by jay on Thu, Dec 8 2011
  • Re: Why is coercion bad?

    This is a stupid argument. Coercion is immoral because it's already defined as immoral. It's like asking why object x is white; it's because x appears to people whitely. Epistemology/linguistics 101.
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by jay on Sun, Dec 4 2011
  • Re: An-caps, STOP lying to yourself!

    "And Jay, aah the intellectual ascent. If only people were smarter and more educated, then we would have peace and prosperity in an.cap." I never mentioned level of education. I just meant that you need to have a body of people that accept ancap principles even if they don't name it as such.
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by jay on Thu, Dec 1 2011
  • Re: An-caps, STOP lying to yourself!

    Pretty sure an-cap-ism has to be intellectually assented to, not forced upon people or happenstanced by political upheaval. But that doesn't really help your trolling, does it?
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by jay on Thu, Dec 1 2011
  • Re: Help me defeat/debate socialism!

    The gun analogy is a great way to frame the sides. Stefan Molyneaux has a video where he prods "gun or no gun?" to determine the morality of a transaction. But be warned: people will bust themselves up into a Mobius strip of logic to justify state violence for anything: i.e., children will die of cancer and gunshot wounds on the street...some
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by jay on Wed, Nov 30 2011
  • Re: Time Magazine propaganda?

    Time is catering to different markets to maximize profits. Probably has little to do with propaganda.
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by jay on Mon, Nov 28 2011
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