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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
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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
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"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
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Your non-sequitur is an argument against coercion, not racism.
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Why give a sh*t if someone is a racist?
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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.
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"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.
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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?
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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
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Time is catering to different markets to maximize profits. Probably has little to do with propaganda.