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Nutty as squirrel shit.
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I define "weak" as someone who's useless to society. The chronically ill are useless. You don't get to define anything. That's the point.
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Maladapted to survive? So you're admitting that subsidizing the weak and frail will lead to civilization's death? Nope. I'm saying that evolution has bugger all to do with how 'strong' or 'weak' you are. Natural selection works on the basis of adaptibility , not some arbitrary interpretation of what Buzz Killington percieves
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The whole reason people want government handing out healthcare is that these technologies allow the weak and frail to continue their pathetic existences. If you're such an ubermensch yourself then you should be able to stop the "weak and frail" from getting free healthcare in the first place. The fact you can't indicates to me that
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On a somewhat related point, what do you think about Chinese firms that employ people who have been thrown off their land by the Chinese government and so have no other option but to take up the employmenrt offered? Isn't this coercion? And if so, what is the morality of purchasing from Chinese firms such as this?
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I don't understand why some libertarians fetishise Somalia. Just because there's no central government it doesn't mean there aren't opressive power structures and illegitimate uses of force. Is a patchwork of warlords, pirates, and jihadi sects really such a wonderful place? Is that really what constitutes statelessness?
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Why can't that be both? Why can't you have a dog that is a pet and that herds sheep? That's a very good point. Sheepdogs love to herd though, so I suppose it all depends whether the work being done is in the animals nature. Not sure I would like to see a dog being forced to work, if such a thing would be possible.
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Actually, PPR or Private Product Remaining (also available in real/nominal and per capita forms), is an Austrian measure of a society's economic health. Isn't that just GNP minus government spending? That doesn't seem to avoid any the aggregation problems that plague the standard measures. Also, is everything a government does bad? Is everything
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Depends what the ownership entails I suppose. Are we talking about having a chimp as a pet, or owning a chimp so it can do chores around the house and sweep chimneys?
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What do people think of alternative measures to GDP such as the Genuine Progress Indicator, or the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare? Have there been any attempts to produce an Austrian-inspired metric of economic progress?