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Can I delete my account or change my user name? It appears my name turns up in the google search results and I intent my posts to be directed to this forum and not anyone who searches my (real) name. Thanks in advance.
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So he wants government (Democrats or Greens) to make create greater profits and productivity for business? Isn't this fascism?
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I admit that I would actually be tempted to vote at all if Ron Paul grew a beard like one of the following: Spooner, Hess, or Tolstoy (or myself!). Haha. I think this campaign season has definitely proved the point in No Treason about unaccountability and the Constitution having no authority. Though, as I said... Ron's always said that he has always
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[quote user="BlackSheep"] [quote user="JohnSchreimann"] Bastiat framed it as a young boy breaking the window. And then boy is told directly or indirectly that he has helped the economy. And thus a moral hazard occurs in which vandalism either is considered righteous or that absurd double standards exist in other situations involving
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Bastiat framed it as a young boy breaking the window. And then boy is told directly or indirectly that he has helped the economy. And thus a moral hazard occurs in which vandalism either is considered righteous or that absurd double standards exist in other situations involving the destruction of property. The young boy represents the values of those
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I've not read up much on agorism. Though, I agree with brainpolice in that libertarians in politics is mostly a dead end. I've always been more interested in the economic and moral side of anarchism. RP took on a lot of individual issues and I liked what he had to say. His philosophy is more important than his great record in congress. He's
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We had a thread about this video yesterday. I don't think it even addresses anarcho-capitalism in that video. Only that anarchy is just killing people and having no property rights until the good guys show up or something. It just arrogantly states that this is a transition period to The Republic (TM) or The Dictator (TM). Notice Fidel waiting in
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Joe Sobran talked a bit about this in his article The Reluctant Anarchist. That Randians and conservatives were deluded into think there are rational limits to government and that it was realistic to persue that. That government has some nature or natural state in which it is supposed to be in. Conveniently, it never has and never will... besides being
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Fining employers who hire fat people. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2008/06/23/kyung.fat.busters.cnn I even had one person say that "It would good for a country with nationalized health care. The same with banning cigarettes and marijuana." What did Hayek say about government planning and being forced to fit the "service"
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Kept alive forever? I wish. And he isn't brain dead or vegetative. At least that the last I checked.