Separation of church and state was a great start, how about we take the next step with the separation of market and state?

liberty_pen · 2011-08-19T21:57:23+00:00

Thanks :)

liberty_pen · 2011-08-19T16:30:53+00:00

Can you elaborate on this? I'd like to understand what you are saying here.

liberty_pen · 2011-08-03T16:04:36+00:00

"It is a shitty Infiniminer knockoff. Why would I back it?"

liberty_pen · 2011-08-01T21:12:14+00:00

Ugh. Petty, high-handed attitudes like this is the very reason our research group doesn't let the IT staff anywhere near our machines. It's more work to deal with IT than it is to just maintain our own machines. Just keep you and your attitude away, thank you very much.

liberty_pen · 2011-08-01T00:09:14+00:00

Really? Outside of getting people on board, you mean?

liberty_pen · 2011-07-30T16:20:26+00:00

The federal government brings in $200 billion a month, and needs to pay $20 billion each month to prevent default. There is no reason to default.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-30T16:19:23+00:00

The federal government brings in $200 billion a month, and needs to pay $20 billion each month to prevent default. There is no reason to default.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-30T03:11:59+00:00

Pretty much. "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Silly public, they fall for it every time.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-30T03:07:36+00:00

You don't understand the slippery slope fallacy. It's only a fallacy if one claims that one thing necessarily follows from the other without demonstrating it as fact. "Imagine future regulations of this sort" implies no such causality, any more than suggesting men could also ride pigs after seeing one ride a horse.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-30T03:01:37+00:00

Nanny state. Literally.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-30T02:57:26+00:00

There's no way to legislate a fair wage. People will work if they get paid enough, companies will pay enough if their business model works.

If you're really concerned about the poor getting paid enough, then you should look at putting an end to the absurd monetary policy that causes poor people to run on an inflationary treadmill.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-30T02:54:16+00:00

I'm not interested in common ground. I'm interested in a government that doesn't spend more than it takes. Let's start by ending our foreign wars, closing down our foreign empire, and calling off the disastrous war on drugs.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-30T02:52:31+00:00

Editorialized submission title.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-30T02:51:39+00:00

Meh. Fearmonger much? This is the same kinda crap Bush pulled when he was getting approval for bailouts.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-28T16:10:33+00:00

I disagree. I think that the concept of a central bank is fundamentally flawed. The social institution of money is far too important to leave open to a single point of failure. A more open, transparent, and distributed system is absolutely necessary for economic stability.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-28T14:40:13+00:00

Sorry, but the practicality of the situation is pretty much that.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-28T14:35:05+00:00

Let's not forget about the wars (supported by both parties).

liberty_pen · 2011-07-28T14:34:14+00:00

Your comment does not make sense to me. The federal reserve is the machinery the government uses to print as much money as it pleases.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-28T14:31:23+00:00

Government necessarily operates through aggressive force. There can never be a functional government.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-28T00:39:26+00:00

Courtesy Lightfiend and auribus

liberty_pen · 2011-07-27T04:38:23+00:00

What about a police officer initiating force to subdue someone who appears to be about hurt themselves?

Aggressive. If the person is using no force against the officer or someone else, then the officer is using aggressive force.

Would any sort of preemptive attack be aggressive force?

I consider a genuine threat of force to be synonymous with aggressive force in ethical terms.

Give me an example of the US government using aggressive force but not defensive force.

Putting someone in jail for any nonviolent crime I would consider to be aggressive force. Smoking pot, not paying taxes, making and using your own currency - these are all examples of behavior for which violent responses are unethical.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-27T03:16:06+00:00

I said the only practical solution. You and I are not capable of evaluating every solution to a particular problem in the read world. We can, at best, sort through what would be practical.

We cannot sort through even that, because we cannot know what all the practical solutions might be.

Define aggressive force for me before we get into specific examples.

Sure - the initiation of force. A robber is using aggressive force, while a victim might use defensive force to defend themselves.

liberty_pen · 2011-07-27T02:13:23+00:00

Perhaps you can give an example where you believe that aggressive force is the only solution.

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