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[quote user="Jeremiah Dyke"]...support of the free market is not about profits...[/quote] I'd like to offer some constructive criticism. Human action is all about profit seeking. Action without profit seeking is irrational. Some guy cutting on his skin, for example, is properly seen as crazy. The fact that free market supporters aren't
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[quote user="tonyfernandez"]It wasn't forced charity that I looked up when I said that the US gave. I meant the US population gave.[/quote] Thanks for the clarification.
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[quote user="tonyfernandez"]In 2009 the US government took in $2.1 trillion of our money.[/quote] [quote user="tonyfernandez"]The US gave $295 billion to charity in 2006.[/quote] Forced charity is not charity at all. It's extortion plain and simple.
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[quote user="Nielsio"]The question is: why do you think you are curious.[/quote] Yes, let's have a peek into your mind Mr. Dyke, you know, out of curiosity!
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I would guess Murphy's at the top. Didn't he make it into the New York Times best sellers list? I don't know if any of the others have done so.
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Help me understand what you are trying to accomplish. What is the point if it is all speculative?
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Be thankful that this forum exists. In my opinion, you will get much farther discussing anarcho-capitalism here than anywhere else. Btw, some of the entries people made on your blog are really annoying. "A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking
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[quote user="Novus Zarathustra"]How the hell is our free-market ideology supposed to work, if people who run Business are flawed in every way?[/quote] Some people look at a glass and say it is half empty. Others look at it and say it is half full. I want to strongly encourage you to do the latter. Thoroughly flawed business persons do not
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[quote user="Jonathan M. F. Catalán"]As an online libertarian discussion grows longer, the probability of a reference to absolute tyranny approaches 1.[/quote] Since you already mentioned it in this forum, doesn't that make it just slightly self-fulfilling? Can I get a touche!?
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[quote user="Merlin"]The reason I simple: it is a fact of life that there a clear demarcation line among humans, separating those that can get abstract ideas, and those who can’t.[/quote] That's a poor choice of words. Although there is still debate on the subject, there is evidence that even Neanderthal man was capable of grasping