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The government can't stop people using drugs by threatening them with lengthy prison sentences. Hell, it can't even keep drugs out of the prisons! It's hardly going to stop people getting alcohol which is readily available by giving them vouchers instead of cash and having a few extra...

Yes it is. Giving loans to people who could not normally get them at below market rates is exactly equivalent to welfare. If they have a reasonable career and are just dealing with temporary unemployment, they can manage that through unemployment insurance or good old fashioned savings. The...

Wow. Your dad is an armed criminal. How do you feel about that? Does he believe in things like drug prohibition?

Contract law. Easily dealt with. Yes, it would require a cultural change where people sign to contracts with partners and family members. Better than having the courts and the government making decision for people.

Abolishing the welfare state is the only solution. If we assume for argument's sake "that government-provided welfare is the best possible method of accounting for the truly needy" then I would have to say cash payments are in fact the best method, although only because the alternatives are so...

Makes sense. My full on libertarian vision will never be popular, but there is a lot of room for improvement in the current system. Also, I think child support should be limited to necessities. There is no reason why a wealthy parent should be forced to pay far more than any child actually...

It's not a catch 22. It's just a regular difficult decision. The kind that happens all the time in real life. Unlike you, I don't think forcing people at gun point to do what you consider the "right thing" is an acceptable solution.

Wrong. The other parent that wants to keep the child has every right to keep the child if they can afford to support it. If not, they should give it to someone who can. What they don't have a right to do is force someone else to support their decision.

Right so there are plenty of foster parents willing to take care of children. So if a single parent can't support the child without forcing the other parent to pay child support, the child can still be cared for by foster parents, no?

Why? It's just an appeal to tradition. Would you agree that parents can relinquish that responsibility by putting their child up for adoption, or should teenage mothers who give up their child also be forced to pay money to the foster parents? The child doesn't have to suffer. Often the...

Why should parents be forced to make mandatory, arbitrary payments to children that in many cases they are not even allowed to see? If a woman decides to have a child, that is her choice. She should decide that she is financially competent to take care of that child before she goes through...

Meh, some brown people died. Since when is that news?

Such as? We're certainly way behind America in the crucial area of free speech. At least the first ammendment prevents things likeiInternet censorship. The Greens are a bunch of socialist nutters. I'll be voting LDP or shooters party in the senate, and drawing a cock my ballot for the house of...

There is a huge difference between being predisposed to think a certain way and being forced to act a certain way. Sure, people are a product of their environments. But they still have wants and desires that they perceive as being their own, which are unique to them. Using violence or threats...

That's a really good point. A lot of it can be traced back to the US. Although there is still a lot of violence even in some of the best liberal democracies, especially if you regard locking people up for victim less crimes as violent. I'd also argue that the US does a lot of terrible things...

More information is needed here. Nolan is probably right though, the police commissioner cannot simply decide by decree that the debt is unenforceable. The case will probably require testing in the courts before we really find out. It certainly appears to be a valid contract.

Systems close to anarcho-capitalism worked well for centuries in medieval Iceland, Ireland and to some degree the USA prior to WW2. The Wild West, and the laws of pirates also provide good examples of people preferring to use decentralized co-operation where no government exists, rather than...

Yes, because we as a society own everyone who is born into it, and if they die we can no longer steal the fruits of their labor.

Loved it. Not offensive at all. Has nothing to do with rape either. Absolutely. When I'm a middle aged man I hope to be fucking 20 something women, and yes, I would feel very empowered.

This point is crucial. We do not advocate a sudden anarcho-capitalist (AC) revolution, but rather we believe in convincing enough people in the merits of AC for it to come about slowly and peacefully. I'm happy to concede that if AC were rapidly imposed in say present day Australia (where most...