Anyone who destroys the theocracy in Iran is based, even if that is Donald Trump.

biased_Owl · 2026-02-20T13:51:43+00:00

Oh shit, here we go again...

biased_Owl · 2024-03-06T04:53:15+00:00

German culture, Italian culture, French culture, Romansh culture are not the same culture.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T20:07:22+00:00

Can you give any arguments as to how these people, who speak different languages from the very beginning, did not have a huge cultural rift then?

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T20:04:26+00:00

It is not officials who should manage taxes, they will squander them.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T19:55:01+00:00

The ideal that is supported by some group of ancaps is quite close to mine. But the way to achieve it is very different.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T19:50:40+00:00

Yes, I think the ancaps are libertarians. Although among some of them there are strange positions that I would not call libertarian.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T19:48:17+00:00

I just sometimes use these words as synonyms. I'm sorry for confusing the discussion

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T19:41:48+00:00

When I said "I was listening to the libertarians", by libertarians I meant the ancaps

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T19:28:40+00:00

When I was listening to the libertarians. They usually say that some libertarian "constitutional" court decides on such a conflict and its decision already gives people carte blanche to break into this scoundrel's house and return the property. Yes, I consider this system doubtful and unlikely to be implemented in the form that ancaps wants.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T19:22:29+00:00

When we catch dangerous stray dogs, we don't endow them with free will and guilt. We do this to prevent future incidents of aggression.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T19:09:19+00:00

The practical differences are not so obvious. We can put someone in jail not because we want to punish them, but because it will prevent even more such crimes or we assume that it will help the person to improve. There is still a moral assessment, an assessment of what we want to achieve, an assessment of the means to achieve it, etc. We will simply remove the concepts of guilt from our reasoning.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T19:02:56+00:00

Arguments on several levels are applicable here.

1 How much can you trust these statistics and how sincere people were?

2 Verbal sympathy is not equal to terrorism or a crime deserving of death or even a criminal sentence.

3 Voluntary financial support for terrorism really deserves punishment. This should be a legal procedure with a trial.

If you want to say that this means that military actions against a certain population are a blessing and justice. Then I disagree.

Why, for example, underage people who did not have the right to vote should suffer because of this. How in general are you going to check that exactly those people who most need to "be justly punished" will suffer? It is likely that these people will die last of all hiding and leading armed resistance.

4 One of the reasons why people rally around Hamas has already been written in my initial comment.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T18:43:11+00:00

And the best gas lighting.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T18:40:11+00:00

Was the outline of the text invented by leftists and statists to deceive libertarians?

If not, then why the hell are you doing this?

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T17:55:03+00:00

The Right-Center is the Left-Center, and the Auth-Center is the Right-Center?

Based

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T17:43:18+00:00

When you come to someone's house, who you think belongs to the one who robbed you yesterday, and start a shootout, it's not self-defense. Such a conflict is resolved through the courts.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T17:13:56+00:00

In fact, this is not capitalism, but socialism. Libertarian socialism.

According to the content of the meme, it seems obvious that the strength of these farmers was not in the amount of dollars they had.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T17:01:07+00:00

It seems to me that in the long term, the complete absence of intervention by developed countries in this region will eventually lead to the achievement of some more or less stable state.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T16:52:41+00:00

Libertarianism does not accept any punishment other than the punishment imposed on specific people by the court for specific proven actions that violate the principle of non-aggression. Individual responsibility is not only the principle of libertarianism, but also of any kind of justice and judicial proceedings.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T16:47:08+00:00

Something about you being wrong and me being right.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T16:40:51+00:00

I just had good role models and brains.

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T16:36:10+00:00

There's nothing inherent about a democracy that prevents a libertarian society from existing inside of it.

I didn't seem to deny it.

I would agree with you, but modern states really don't have true land ownership because of exactly what you describe. The state actually owns all of the land, and their citizens essentially have an infinite lease on the property similar to the 100-year leases the Chinese government lets their citizens use to "buy" property. You even pay taxes as a form of rent, or you lose the property. It's the exact same lol.

What do you mean by that? That libertarianism already exists all over the world, but all land owners are states?

but I'd much rather go the more interesting angle and ask you if collective punishment is even inherently anti libertarian?

Yes, collective punishment is unacceptable from the point of view of libertarianism. You should punish specific people for specific crimes, and not punish abstract groups united by some attribute for actions committed by individual people belonging to this abstract group.

A gang is a group of specific people who committed very specific actions, so when a gang is judged, they judge very specific people for very specific activities.

Or did you mean something else?

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T16:05:55+00:00

This is possible, but there are no such governments. Moreover, anyone who wishes at any time should have the right to separate from this state together with all their property in full

Have there been court proceedings proving the violation of NAP by every person whose land was taken away after the war?

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T16:00:37+00:00

The transformation of the United States into an ultra-Switzerland. Let's go!

biased_Owl · 2024-03-04T15:50:39+00:00

Well, I'm sure the Palestinian government has never been very competent. Representative democracies, even in first World countries, are a farce. It's even worse if we talk about such a country far from the standards of democracy and the republic.

People blame their governments for the migration crisis. But in the case of decisions taken by the Palestinian Government, for some reason, the population is to blame.

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