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Roderick Long had an interesting point in the video below at the 12:50 mark regarding how businesses would be less hierarchical, smaller, and more numerous in a truly free market. He defends his position by saying diseconomies of scale, and how firms are like islands of central planners when they reach a certain size and couldn't operate at such
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Pauline Maier does a fantastic job documenting the ratification of the Constitution. http://www.amazon.com/Ratification-Americans-Debate-Constitution-1787-1788/dp/B004Q7E0UY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304444561&sr=8-1
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Fair enough point William, although my agitation sometimes surfaces in my comments; apologies in advance.
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Does allowing the propagation of false or ignorant statements to others who may become convinced of such false/ignorant statements as a result, hurt the dissemination of factual/accurate statements in areas and among people who would otherwise never be exposed to such ideas before or after?
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Does the forum somehow change the quality of the argument or its effects? Do you really believe that?
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Regardless of age, people who are ignorant of an issue and vociferous in opinion should be reprimanded and exposed for such careless, public display's of stupidity.
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Yet another atheist who replaced god with the state. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Ki7_huT4M
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Yeah, it's a bad example for sure. But I still don't see how a preemptive strike could be justified given that the justification would be made from "intelligence" gathered from the state itself. And–as the US has learned in Iraq–intelligence is often fabricated to drag a country into war for reasons beyond a strictly preemptive
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Can you expand on that please?
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There is a particular argument Objectivists like to use to justify preemptive war. I'll give you the gist (I'm sure you'll recognize it immediately): If a bully were on a playground, and you see him about to hit you (or approaching aggressively in a manner that would suggest he was going to hit you) you are justified in striking first. Extrapolating