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How to begin? One world government is no more impossible than the Soviet Union was impossible. I think the most that Hayek showed was that central planning must be highly inefficient, not that it...
As I said...
The AH dictionary defines it:
"One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ."
As an example, Micha is a political...
I guess it really is no exaggeration at all to say that non-bigotry is your central moral axiom. It seems awfully specific to me, though, like making non-incest the central moral axiom and...
Give me your definition of "non-bigotry". If it involves an equal status for all participants in a society, it is probably directly incompatible with having some people rule over others.
Do you make a distinction between excoriated and ostracized on the one hand, and harm on the other? Keep in mind the intellectual problems that arose from popular adoption of Mill's Harm Principle...
Sure, and I sometimes wish Christians and Jews apologized for all of the terribly intolerant things people have done in the name of those religions and cultures as well, and continue to do to this...
The intellectual battle against the *principle* of bigotry is largely won, but it's application is a different matter. Consider blacks and women to be on one side of the spectrum, and Mexicans,...
I wouldn't worry Micha, after all the intellectual battle against bigotry is largely won. At least that's what you told me last week.
Or maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe by a...
Not good enough. I need to see your ID, and it better not be expired.
For recent Structural Libertarianism, see Bruno Frey's FOCJ proposal.
I'm not against gold or geocaching, I'm for diversification and scrupulous paranoia.
I don't know how common it is, but I couldn't get into a bar with an expired driver's license. It's silly at the margin, but I guess there's a certain logic to it. What if it were a 20-year-old...
As I said, I'm making a judgment of the relative risks of strategies in the absence of a perfect strategy. I'll take my chances with the gunpoint geocache thief; you can take yours with paper...
Because during a monetary reset bad guys don't look for...
I have nowhere argued that gold is the perfect investment vehicle nor that geocaching is the perfect way to hide gold. The risk of someone someone holding a gun to my head demanding...
Peter Schiff argues that gold mining stocks are higher leverage and thus will do better than gold itself.
All options have their dangers , physical gold can be taken from you by force and...
...10 foot pole. Eventually, I believe GLD and the like will blow up. If there is manipulation in the market, then GLD et al are being used to suppress the price.
GLD is akin to a gold...
That's fair...
is it better to hold physical gold or ETF's like GLD? I do not envision an apocalypse that would mean using gold as money. I do foresee a melt down in general that would make ETF stocks shoot way...
I'm sympathetic to your thinking on this. I was referring specifically to the distinction between the concept of civil rights, and the civil rights law. I thought the comparison to the...
Really. I find it ludicrous and obnoxious to organize a protest against how a man peacefully disposes of his property, whatever his vices may be. What's the distinction you make?