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Yes. The Death Star infringed people's natural rights of life. They have a negative right in that they should not have their life ended at the hands of an aggressor. In that case, it is ethical to do anything within their means to prevent it from happening; all collateral damage falls on the consciences of the Death Star's operators for involving
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[quote user="John James"] [quote user="Buzz Killington"]What was so bad about the Death Star, anyway?[/quote] It was a star of death, obviously. [/quote] We're all going to die some day, JJ. Your answer implies that objectively, death is bad. It simply exists, and any value judgments are inherently subjective.
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Check out 12:11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1nqz90TffY 1) What are these black/white Austrians being discussed? 2) Anybody see Molyneux always using big words while barely breaking the surface of real economic issues?
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[quote user="Meistro"] I'm not living in the same city as Glenn Beck, I don't care how utopian. [/quote] Yet (presumably) you'll choose to continue living in a city with excessive taxation to levels beyond Beck's ideal? I'd say who cares about one man. The quality of my lifestyle will determine where I live. Better is better
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[quote user="Meistro"] I'd like to propose a debate. You vs Me. Ideally I would like to debate state vs market but if you are all anarchists we could find something else to debate over. Please do suggest topics of debate! I am fairly orthodox Rothbardian. could have a debate on the merits of voting, for example, or what are the best tactics
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[quote user="Smiling Dave"] Dave seems to adhere to the Subjective Theory of Value in saying that a dollar has no inherent value despite common belief. As he says here , "A Dollar is only as good to you as someone else is willing to take it as payment," which is accurate. In other words, what he says is true of everything. He makes
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It's an awesome idea. People living together how they want to live together outside of force is a great thing. I disagree with Beck on a few key issues (actually, quite a bit), but this project is a step in the right direction.
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I used to listen to Dave Ramsey a lot. He actually inadvertently led to my reading Austrian Economics. Dave seems to adhere to the Subjective Theory of Value in saying that gold has no inherent value despite common belief. As he says here , "Gold is only as good to you as someone else is willing to take it as payment," which is accurate. He
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Yes, very much, thank you. So I understand that in the example, there must be at least 2 variables: one being constant, the other fluctuating. I'll have to go back and re-read the selection, but it seems to me that if someone has a business that doesn't involve mutliple variables, let's say a table business. If a guy purchases tables, then
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In Chapter VII, Section 2 of Human Action , for the first time in his treatise Mises goes into some hardcore calculation using variables. (I say hardcore because it's been 10 years since I've been in a math class!) I broke down his formula, but I'm having trouble understanding it. Perhaps the folks on here could aid me in understanding it