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Coercion outside of the idea of physical force. Sure: the threat of force. I don't think many people have had cops bust into their homes and physically force money from them, right? Are we any less coerced, though? Is a victim any less coerced in any of these situations?: 1) Someone calls and threatens to kill Jim unless Jim gives him $5.00 or 2
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Doing a bit of research for my final paper this term, and I'm proposing a free market solution to homelessness in America. For starters, this is the information I've typically found thus far: this study in Maine is claiming that the solution to homelessness is permanent subsidized housing. The study claims that people save more on average in
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[quote user="limitgov"] "but the point is that the sport is "fake" because that's what the customers want ." Devil's Adv: I think the fans just want an entertaining match, they don't neccessarily need it to be fixed. I don't think they care, as long as its entertaining. [/quote] I can't speak for every
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[quote user="gotlucky"] Maybe this will help. From what you said: [quote user="limitgov"] You can tell the UFC fans that free market judges would at least have to answer to the market/consumer demand, but the government judges don't have to answer to anyone. But the UFC fans don't seem to care. They believe, if the judging
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I've been an MMA fans since I first learned about it by watching the UFC in the late 90s, so I know exactly what you're talking about. The trouble with modern-day MMA is this: it has strayed from its roots of vale tudo, where there were no rounds and no time limits. Also, there were no weight classes, but that is one dynamic that I can understand
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Learning more about Ludwig, and I realized that the ancap notion that all taxation is theft (not disagreeing with it, mind you) is inconsistent with the minarchism of Mises. How do Mises fans rectify this? Sincerely curious. Is it as simple an answer as "he was wrong"?
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I don't get on here much anymore, very rarely, but I do remember Liberty Student. Once I asked him if the world was indeed round, and he said "No." Very little grey with that guy, and although he was neurotic, I don't know many on this forum that haven't appeared to be at one time or another lol. Liberty Student was entertaining
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[quote user="Friedmanite"] Jack, The least upper bound of that series is most definitely 2. Are we understanding least upper bound as the supremum of a bounded subset of an ordered field? Then let, By definition of the convergence of the partial sums to 2, we have [/quote] Saw a video on youtube and noticed that this guy didn't get anywhere
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[quote user="Clayton"] Open theism, that's the term I was looking for! It's been years since I debated that stuff... Clayton - [/quote] wtf is open theism?
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[quote user="SkepticalMetal"] The relationship between existentialism and libertarianism seems kind of complicated. The early existentialist works match up with it quite nicely - the later ones (Sartre) don't agree as much. [/quote] I'd say that they are completely compatible! Existentialism, or choosing your essence, is synonymous