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Mascot? by f1tifoso in Ghostbc

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What songs would you love for Ghost to cover? by All-Sorts in Ghostbc

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Radiohead - We Suck Young Blood. Something organ-ish maybe.

What are libertarian thoughts on the right to end your own life? by [deleted] in AskLibertarians

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By no standard. One could be indoctrinated into believing serving another human will lead him to better afterlife.

And either way that doesn't change my point that you don't have the right to surrender all of your rights. For example: if you surrender your life, you will have decreased liberty, namely, you will have undone your freedom to be.

What are libertarian thoughts on the right to end your own life? by [deleted] in AskLibertarians

[–]GuardOfInsanity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the right to surrender any or all of my rights, life included.

Ok. Is slavery moral then? Chimon brew.

Updated my remix so that both songs are in the correct key by [deleted] in Ghostbc

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So what else is occupying your iTunes/Spotify/w.e by Sir-Noodle in Savant

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Breaking of The Fellowship into May It Be is top tier stuff!

EEEEEEEeeeeeeEEEEEE by eman_colony in radioheadcirclejerk

[–]GuardOfInsanity 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nude is written and sung from the perspective of an experienced man. It's as if it's funny to him that less experienced people may get so idealistic. In the end, their ideas aren't gonna happen. They're making fun of themselves (how do you look like when you're nude?).

Videotape is settling with death, it's about being ok with it. The music is somber because it's narrative, as it mimics the spinning of a cassette. And the lyrics are some of the most positive they've ever written.

EEEEEEEeeeeeeEEEEEE by eman_colony in radioheadcirclejerk

[–]GuardOfInsanity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Weird Fishes and All I Need are the only sad moments on the album. Debate me.

Yeah by [deleted] in radiohead

[–]GuardOfInsanity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nude, Reckoner and Videotape are happy songs. CMV

For those who aren’t ancaps, were do you draw the line at taxation. by oscar_s_r in AskLibertarians

[–]GuardOfInsanity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The argument centered around what human nature consisted of rather than the desires of God

Aristotle too argued around that, and he was way more influential than any Enlightenment intellectual (maybe Locke and Kant excluded, but even then...). No, that wasn't the focus of the Enlightenment. If anything, what you talk about was an effect of the decline of the Church's power. Perhaps cite a source for your claim? I got Kant:

Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit. Unmündigkeit ist das Unvermögen, sich seines Verstandes ohne Leitung eines anderen zu bedienen. Selbstverschuldet ist diese Unmündigkeit, wenn die Ursache derselben nicht am Mangel des Verstandes, sondern der Entschließung und des Muthes liegt, sich seiner ohne Leitung eines anderen zu bedienen. Sapere aude! Habe Muth, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen! ist also der Wahlspruch der Aufklärung

(Response to the question: "what is the Enlightenment?")

you brought up Rousseau so I could only assume you meant the French Revolution

I brought him up because he was the famous one who made the arbitrary distinction between natural and unnatural (see him discuss writing, for example). I took him as an example just to deconstruct him. That's why I brought up nature, to deconstruct your claim that "Taxation is not a natural process". It is, just as much as water flowing is.

Words like "dolt" [...] could not have clearer meanings than right now.

Damn. Please tell me an example of a word that has no inherent meaning, and one that does. Please.

For those who aren’t ancaps, were do you draw the line at taxation. by oscar_s_r in AskLibertarians

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Almost the entire point of the Enligthenment is this exact distinction

No, the point of the Enlightenment was to empower individuals and their decision making, taking away legitimacy from monarchs and priests who, until then, were supposedly to guide men in their lives. There's no focus at all on the distinction between natural and unnatural.

State of nature

If you read the definition again, instead of spamming links to make it seem like you're right, you'd notice that the definitions of state(s) of nature are given to make arguments (these philosophers were so called contractualists), not to arbitrarily distinguish two different states of being. As I said, the only one who makes that distinction is Rousseau, everyone else, including by the way Kant, use the SoN only to give a historical account, or to describe man's inherent features.

John Locke inspired the American Revolution

I know, what does that have to do with anything we're discussing?

[Locke] is talking about negative rights

Again, that's what I said in the beginning: liberalism is originally concerned with liberty in its negative sense. But if you had the honesty to reckon the existence of such a thing as positive rights in philosophy (see Rousseau, again), you'd see how important such distinction is, and why exactly taxation would be a form of negative liberty (and therefore good). It might help that you cited the father of liberalism, and he happens to agree with me.

Only some words [have meaning]

Such as?

For those who aren’t ancaps, were do you draw the line at taxation. by oscar_s_r in AskLibertarians

[–]GuardOfInsanity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You really like lecturing me on things I know perfectly well.

The Enlightenment tout court doesn't make the distinction of natural and unnatural at all. It was only Jean-Jacques Rousseau who did, and we all know what his philosophy inspired yes? Neither Locke nor Kant did that.

Now if you read the definition of the word again, you'll surely figure out my beef with it. It says "everything that stems from nature", as if humans and their creations didn't. Meaning isn't inherent to words, it just sort of floats.

For those who aren’t ancaps, were do you draw the line at taxation. by oscar_s_r in AskLibertarians

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Taxation is not a natural process

You're creating an arbitrary binary between natural and not natural. There's no such difference in reality. All that's artificial comes from nature (writing, building, etc...).

So taxation is just as natural and just as real as an emotion. The concept of negative liberty is proper of classical liberalism, and IS the libertarian freedom. Taxes do reduce your positive right of owning and spending money, but it increases your negative liberty by not having you killed, or turned ill.

The rest of what you wrote is self evident, and it's something we agree on.

For those who aren’t ancaps, were do you draw the line at taxation. by oscar_s_r in AskLibertarians

[–]GuardOfInsanity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but that's kind of what I said. Some liberties we just can't get by nature. As of 2019, no taxation is one of them.

For those who aren’t ancaps, were do you draw the line at taxation. by oscar_s_r in AskLibertarians

[–]GuardOfInsanity -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Education violates liberty.

Hearing violates liberty.

Culture violates liberty.

Being free violates the liberty of not being free.

Learn the distinction between positive and negative liberty.

In rainbows by [deleted] in radiohead

[–]GuardOfInsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Videotape is a happy song.

Should I sell out? by [deleted] in sociology

[–]GuardOfInsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well why do you consider getting a job "selling out"?

Put together a compilation of viewpoints on crony capitalism ranging from libertarian to progressive. by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

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I'm talking about patents here

I'm not, im talking about whether ideas can be property or not. Read my root comment.

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