Posts by jazzguru

Quote: Originally Posted by tonton  "Plunder and violence would not occur if not for the state." Is that one of the "facts" you are talking about? These are not the facts you are looking for.   Quote...

Quote: Originally Posted by jimmac  Hey you could read the links to the polls and news articles I linked to just the same as anyone else. Just because you don't like them doesn't make them untrue or not valid. And I'm...

Quote: Originally Posted by tonton  Yeah, once social Darwinism separates the wheat from the chaff, everything will be hunky dory, right?   Actually, absent institutionalized plunder and violence, I think...

Quote: Originally Posted by muppetry    I did not say that Libertarians seldom define what is right or moral - they do seem to spend an inordinate amount of time labeling things as right or moral (or more...

Quote: Originally Posted by muppetry    Your question appeared to be a malformed attempt at a false dilemma. I was trying to figure out if that was deliberate or not. It was also off-topic, in that the...

Quote: Originally Posted by tonton  When you see society as something that we must nurture and take care of, raise to maturity, it's not difficult at all to understand the morality of it. "Daddy, if I am going to...

Quote: Originally Posted by muppetry    Would you say that you understand the difference between cooperative and competitive societal models?   I'm sure I could guess, but I'm not familiar with...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hands Sandon  If a country is going to grow it must take money from the people to invest in education, health and technology. If it doesn't it can't compete.    Please read...

Quote: Originally Posted by tonton  I don't think so. I think he honestly feels it would be for the greater good to let some people be really really poor and downtrodden. Lower labor costs and all. Who cares if they...

Quote: Originally Posted by tonton  Nothing abolishes evil. But only an idiot or a liar would claim that we shouldn't try our best to limit certain undesirable things that we can't abolish, whensoever we are able to do...