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Re: * February 2012 low content thread *

DanielMuff — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:59:17 GMT

John James:

Daniel Muffinburg:
You forgot the period. Dude, you're pefectness is fading.

....Muffinburg...You wouldn't be putting spelling and grammatical errors purposefully into your posts just to make me feel good, now would you?

It's an homage.

Re: * February 2012 low content thread *

Wheylous — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:48:22 GMT

Jargon, I reposted it a bit ago. Here is an interesting follow up to my question about the marginal pairs and labor economics:

http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/28280.aspx

Re: * February 2012 low content thread *

John James — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:42:03 GMT

Daniel Muffinburg:
You forgot the period. Dude, you're pefectness is fading.

....Muffinburg...You wouldn't be putting spelling and grammatical errors purposefully into your posts just to make me feel good, now would you?

Re: * February 2012 low content thread *

DanielMuff — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:37:55 GMT

John James:

This guy feels really strongly about IP

You forgot the period. Dude, you're pefectness is fading.

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John James — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:26:45 GMT

This guy feels really strongly about IP

Fred Wilson: "Everybody Is a Pirate, So Fix the System"

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Re: * February 2012 low content thread *

tunk — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:22:10 GMT

Bert:
Individuals and their Rights by Tibor Machan

I'm actually going through that book right now. Machan is a sort of post-Randian/Aristotelian realist/ethical naturalist. He makes a natural-rights argument that , as far as I can tell, you probably won't be convinced by unless you are already a believer in ethical egoism.

The book is useful, though, to the extent that it contains all sorts of interesting replies to skeptics and critics, either of libertarianism, of moral philosophy, or even of the possibility of knowing anything at all.

One trouble I have with Machan's minarchism is that he claims that while people can get together and form a minimal state via "consent of the governed," people could not in doing so consent to "taxing" themselves in order to provide welfare for others (only nightwatchman functions). Any such "social contract" would be invalid because it involves making decisions over which you have no authority (other people's liberty).

But this seems to be inconsistent with the libertarian notion that he defends elsewhere, that positive rights can be incurred through contract. Why couldn't people get together and agree to give up a certain portion of their income every year to provide for others? (E.g. mutual aid.)

This seems to be a shortcoming of minarchism he doesn't address (at least so far that I've read; I'm only on Chapter 4).

Re: * February 2012 low content thread *

Jargon — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:58:30 GMT

Just goes to show, that if someone who lives in a one-room shanty can afford "private" education, so can any american with a job. Education is just a person teaching you something, not a building.

Also I'm sure this has been posted before, but it's great:

http://mises.org/daily/5903/The-Mystery-of-the-Marginal-Pairs

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Clayton — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:14:06 GMT

That article was really awesome. Just goes to show how much propaganda is sloshing around the global press as "settled fact."

Clayton -

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Wheylous — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:04:23 GMT

Jargon - amazing article!!

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Jack Roberts — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:20:14 GMT

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Bert — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:43:19 GMT

So I happened to be going through some old books, some I never read, but bought in a lot off Ebay because it seemed like a good deal. Anyway, 3 of them happen to be;

Individuals and their Rights by Tibor Machan
Money and Inflation: A Monetarist Approach by McCulloch
On Liberty: Man v. The State by Milton Mayer

Anyone read these before? Worth the time to read?

Re: * February 2012 low content thread *

Bert — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:33:36 GMT

EDIT: @Bert - please god let that spread around enough so that we don't go to war...

It's better than the pink model drone they sent back to our overseers. They indirectly called every other super power who has nuclear weapons a bunch of sinners. The Christian right has nothing to say back, they can only agree and condemn our own nuclear policies and hypocrisy.