it's pretty bad Alex when you're the smartest one in the room hehe |
I'm trying to figure out why anyone would ever deliberately strike up a debate with these folks.
OK, that's the Retarded Anarcho-Psychopath (RAP) position...
Is anyone here interested in helping define and defend the Anarcho-Capitalist one?
So, how DO we keep some nutty trillionaire from building bio-weapons?
I asked the simple question wether it was better to use force and the overwhelming answer was YES!
So I see no point in posting there.
So, how DO we keep some nutty trillionaire from building bio-weapons?
It's a financial loser. Even nutty trillionaires don't have enough money to waste murdering people, or plotting to do so. Only governments have the free money stolen from taxpayers that's necessary to fund that crap.
Kinda like the Saudis who help fund OBL's network?
So, how DO we keep some nutty trillionaire from building bio-weapons?
It's a financial loser. Even nutty trillionaires don't have enough money to waste murdering people, or plotting to do so. Only governments have the free money stolen from taxpayers that's necessary to fund that crap.
Kinda like the Saudis who help fund OBL's network?
Well it looks like he came here to preach, and suffered the fate of every other pastor. His religion made less sense to me than most, if that's possible. At least Christianity thinks that their miracles only happened a few times. His demands that miracles happen every single day.
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Quote from: Darat, the Socialist Mod Because there is no indication the therapies actually work would be a good starting point. |
Quote from: Me This is a complicated issue with a lot of intangible psychological aspects to it. Human culture isn't objective, it isn't supposed to be. Ever hear of the Placebo effect? Some people would pay good money for that, knowing exactly what they're getting. |
Quote from: Another Socialist Oh, man. That is a complex, not-easily-reducible statement that is, de facto and a priori, not necessarily nor inherently true. In order to accept that, you have to consider a whole host of behavior/reward responses in the brain within the limbic system, and the not-very-well-understood higher brain center (namely pre-frontal cortex) "control" centers mitigating our impulses. That's like saying "it's a personal decision to be addicted to cigarettes." |
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Quote from: Me Name one dictator who claimed not to adhere to facts? |
Quote from: Darat, the Socialist Mod As Admin - Alex Libman take your off-topic obsession to another thread. Thanks |
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because the freedom and liberty to voluntarily make choices...is off-topic...
what a bunch of looters...
how can you stand that shit...
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because the freedom and liberty to voluntarily make choices...is off-topic...
what a bunch of looters...
how can you stand that shit...
{{vomit}}
said the person who deletes responses in his "hijack-free" threads all the time
because the freedom and liberty to voluntarily make choices...is off-topic...
what a bunch of looters...
how can you stand that shit...
{{vomit}}
said the person who deletes responses in his "hijack-free" threads all the time
hey, you can pee in your water-bowl anytime you voluntarily choose...
you watch yours and I'll watch mine...
go figure...
enjoy!
You know, a growing fraction of the world's problems comes from people with poor reading comprehension skills... Take an English Literature class or something... Read more... For fuck's sake, man!
(This applies both to Queen of the Harpies here and that The Atheist hypocrite on JREF, and others.)
The problem is the herd mentality of "public education": one truth for all (even if it's false). Without government control of schools, people would be free to pursue the individual education solutions that suit them best.
You should get to decide how to educate your children, not a violent entity that's primarily concerned with retaining an strengthening its grip on power. Without educational freedom, all other freedoms are meaningless!
Quote from: BazBearViolent entity? That's a bit extreme...but I guess I shouldn't be surprised. AFAIK people are free to send their children to non-public schools, home school them etc. I just worry your version of educational freedom might frequently equate to a freedom from education.
Only in a handful of countries are people free to send their children to a school that isn't directly run by the government, but is nonetheless under strict government control, and in even fewer countries do parents retain the right to home-school their children, and with a growing number of strings attached.
And of course this is highly discouraged, and the violent entity calling itself government forces you to pay for its over-priced brainwashing facilities (aka "public schools") even if you don't use or agree with them. For me it's no better than forcing a vegan to pay for a pig slaughterhouse (which of course the government also does).
And "freedom from education" is a right too, if certain individuals so choose, especially if the government gets to define what education is and isn't. In a free society there are natural incentives for a proper education to earn income, invest one's capital wisely, and function in a society where personal reputation is paramount.Quote from: OMGturt1esWhat's the point of requiring an education if we are just going to attend those schools that teach whatever it is that happens to make us feel all warm and cuddly? Seriously?
It's interesting that socialists make everything about atheism and racial equality, those being the only issues they were even vaguely on the right side of. It's like a high that you got once long ago and want to recapture again and again!
The full spectrum of human experience extends far beyond that. Public school as the federal thugs want it is nothing but "warm and cuddly" falsehoods, except honoring a different irrational religious system. The old God (aka Government-ordained deity) is dead, long live the new God (aka Government-officiated democracy)!
The Bible is nothing but a Machiavellian deception of old, and you're merely replacing it with its more modern equivalents. Instead of teaching that civilization originates from God (father, son, whatever), you teach that civilization originates from Government. The science has been updated so as not to crumble under obvious contradictions, but everything else is the same!
You know, a growing fraction of the world's problems comes from people with poor reading comprehension skills... Take an English Literature class or something... Read more... Learn to understand poetic metaphores, read between the lines, and so on... For fuck's sake, man, it's not like English is your 4th language!
(This applies both to Queen of the Harpies here and that The Atheist hypocrite on JREF, and others.)
"Hey, you can pee in your water-bowl anytime you voluntarily choose" means that deleting posts in his "hijack-free" threads (including my attempt to spam them with a senseless Gilbert Gottfried style rant, except this one copy (http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=23807.msg435234#msg435234) he forgot) is his prerogative. He's a known commodity, he doesn't claim to be a decent human being or anything like that. It's his party, he can cry if he wants to.
"You watch yours and I'll watch mine" means something similar but along the lines of his capricious behavior isn't some unheard-of abomination that transcends space and time, anyone can start a "hijack free" thread and act like an asshole too.
;)
"Hey, you can pee in your water-bowl anytime you voluntarily choose" means that deleting posts in his "hijack-free" threads (including my attempt to spam them with a senseless Gilbert Gottfried style rant, except this one copy (http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=23807.msg435234#msg435234) he forgot) is his prerogative. He's a known commodity, he doesn't claim to be a decent human being or anything like that. It's his party, he can cry if he wants to.
"You watch yours and I'll watch mine" means something similar but along the lines of his capricious behavior isn't some unheard-of abomination that transcends space and time, anyone can start a "hijack free" thread and act like an asshole too.
;)
Yes, and it's my prerogative to document their behavior, make a bulletproof case showing intellectually dishonest hypocrisy on their part, and smear the good name of James Randi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi) into dirt. Which I'm not going to do obviously, but he should care about what's being done in his name.
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