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I am going to rip these morons when I finish work TO SHREDS

Which part of what I said is wrong?

The world is "Mad Max" right now! Might is right. There is no world government regulating actions between nation states. These nuclear armed behemoths just make up the rules as they go along. Right now a coalition of democratic nations is in the middle east for no good reason occupying two...

Yeah we've tried minarchism; ever heard of the United States of America? It's now the ultimate big government quite literally imprisoning and murdering millions. The law of expanding state power seems to hold just about everywhere. Sometimes there are victories in terms of civil liberties, but...

Much of the work on mises.org contains formal proofs. Formal proofs are just a structure, using that structure does not make something right, or actually proven to be true. Once again, can you explain your position in your own words?

Judge ideas on their merit, not on the status of who wrote them. Your "explanations" are always so vague and brief. Can you actually respond to the initial post by volition that started this argument in your own words?

Haha, the "required reading." I prescribe Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt as required reading for understanding libertarianism. You are an uneducated fool unless you have read what I told you to read. I didn't read what you posted, but I am familiar with the concepts you used, and as I...

Dropping a few vauge references to other people's work is not a response. Try responding with your own thoughts in plain English. You don't even understand what Pareto inefficiency means. Pareto inefficiency means no person's situation can be improved without making someone else worse off. It...

Fuck the abbos, fuck the whites and fuck Australia too. Lets celebrate Individual Day.

Trying bringing up alcohol prohibition then. Obviously he will have seen alcohol cause far more harm in his career than all other drugs combined, I'm sure it is a huge factor is most domestic violence incidnets. Ask him why alcohol should remain legal?

Sort of agree. I don't think a relationship is enough to establish an agreement to take care of a child. If people are just dating, often one or both of them have no intention of having and supporting a child. But certainly the courts can review the circumstances and see if some sort of...

You said yourself "It was a suggested example of an alternative way the government could provide food/clothing etc to the poor, not a comprehensive replacement system" when I pointed out that it could not be used to help people pay rent and bills. Without providing for other necessities like...

Actually Zoe, they've been doing it for centuries. Marriage is just a dressed up contract. I don't mean every time you sleep with someone, I mean during the window of time between finding out about the pregnancy and being able to terminate it, the parents can decide who actually wants to take...

Right. So we have one system for making transfer payments for rent and bills, and another for providing food and clothes. And this duplication is going to save money? Private charities are totally different. They don't have rules handed down to them from a centralized organization telling them...

Maybe people would not be so hopelessly romantic (i.e. short sighted and foolish) if there was no paternalistic safety net waiting to catch them.

Dude, just stop. Everyone would take advantage of this if there were no restrictions on who could access it, even if you're rich, why wouldn't you pick up some free food? Running the facilities, monitoring usage and items limits would be expensive itself. Also, how do disadvantaged people pay...

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, this is easily dealt with; the parents just agree to a contract for providing for the child on terms that they (rather than a court) think is fair. I wouldn't agree that AC will never be popular. I'm sure the same thing was said of democracy, or allowing...

Good question. Welfare is preferable because it distributes the burden equally (I know, not something I would usually say). I don't agree with singling out the biological parent to pay, because I believe their responsibility for the child is an arbitrary construct based on antiquated cultural...

Does this mean we force supermarkets and grocery stores to be part of the policing of this system (checking ID cards ect, sounds pretty police statish)? It also means the government has a list of everything people buy so they can check certain items aren't being purchased. It's still easily...

I agree. I think it should be phased out gradually. Unemployment benefits should slowly be reduced, by say 0.5% a week, over several years. In the meantime, all industrial legislation should be scrapped allowing unskilled workers to actually get jobs, and taxes should be removed (at least for...