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It's not a praxeological claim, so it can be measured to see how accurate it is at the present time, though it suffers from the problem of finding a way to accurately measure it. You could hold a survey for open homosexuals or follow their lives for 50 years from their teens, and you could have a sample size of 10,000 homosexuals and 10,000 heterosexuals
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It is a thymological claim, and I have no idea how Hoppe would try to prove or test it. Does he intend on polling homosexuals from different cultures and classes and age groups?
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^ I'm glad someone caught the joke.
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[quote user="Monroe"] As vive la insurrection alluded to, these groups violate some aspect of natural law. [/quote] vive is addicted to natural rights theory. He is forever talking about the morality of reason and its application to objective and absolute morality.
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The state is anti-libertarian. What you are asking is whether statist method of decision making A is more or less anti-libertarian than statist method of decision making B, but both are equally anti-libertarian. Libertarians prefer decentralization to centralization, but democracy is not necessarily any more decentralized than a dictatorship in terms
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Real estate in terms of renting can have great returns on your investment, but you have to make sure you really know your local market, and you can still be taking on a lot of risk. A rental house might be a great idea in your area, but maybe not. Probably the two biggest risks landlords have to face are not having a tennant and having a tenant who
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If I remember correctly, Peter Schiff advocates that you should: 1) only keep what you need for your daily expenses and a possible emergency fund in the bank 2) keep about 20% of your wealth in precious metals 3) invest the rest of your wealth Precious metals are just a way of storing your wealth. Since you are 25, you are about 40-50 years from retiring
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[quote user="Jon Irenicus"] So no, she hasn't got a point. An idiot is an idiot, no matter how attractive, sadly. [/quote] Right, but an attractive idiot is still attractive, no matter how idiotic she is. Wait, that's not true. Now I'm sad.
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I see that Jon Catalan is about to respond, so I'll keep my response short: 1) Look into the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle. Bob Murphy has written some nice short articles explaining it. 2) Hard-hatted construction workers are not entrepreneurs.
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I'm confused. Is ReadRothbard a command or something you have done? Either way, reading Rothbard will answer your question.