I swear, this weekend I'm actually going to get these posted! Of course, last weekend was Halloween so I was busy (chasing Dracula around Europe might be fun, but it can take a
long time--and he got away!). Any road, here's the latest stats.
Rich wrote:I've never considered myself a libertarian and have always argued against the nonsense of absolute private property and absolute self ownership. If we believed in absolute self ownership then we couldn't have conscription. I support the use of imprisonment and imprisonment is slavery, so I consider anyone who says slavery is an absolute wrong an idiot.
No, imprisonment isn't slavery, there's a good reason that the 13th Amendment reads: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Now you could make a good argument that the
draft is a form of involuntary servitude, but to claim that the draft reduces soldiers to the status of property?
annatar1914 wrote:Let me know what you think about the economic paradox of business owners depressing or stagnating wages of workers to keep profits up, but then not being able to sell products and services because consumers (who are the workers after all...) don't have the money to buy them.
Clearly businesses
are able to sell products and services, because they actually earn profits.
All of your points have been predicated on a libertarian philosophy of natural rights and self ownership, so it's hardly a stretch to imagine that you haven't quite grown past your earlier political ideas, is it?
Belief in natural rights and self ownership is hardly just Libertarian, it's fundamental to any and all systems of belief in inherent human rights of any sort at all.
How many adults have to die before we get child/adult interaction in places like schools down to a safe level, with masking and vaccinations?
Before you can make any such attempt, you first have to prove that that children aren't safe without masking or vaccinations, or any more dangerous to be around. Since all the evidence is that children aren't particularly at risk from the Wuhan virus, and adults around them can themselves be vaccinated, good luck with that.
But I find it interesting that you do not find an affinity with them, aside from problems with the law. But I'm thinking Libertarian fantasies are a preserve of a certain subset of American Whites. Blacks actually know better.
Blacks don't believe in natural rights?
If you understand anything about statistics and infectious disease, you would know that of course cases of COVID-19 in the vaccinated would go up-but what about deaths there from COVID-19?
Are you actually claiming that the point of vaccinations isn't to decrease the number of cases, much less deaths? So
vaccine efficacy isn't defined as the percentage reduction of disease cases as compared to the unvaccinated?
Ah the tyranny of the minority....
Right, because requiring a supermajority to place something off limits is "the tyranny of the minority."
Potemkin wrote:Do you believe in the death penalty for premeditated murder? If so, then you agree with the principle that the majority can decide that a small minority can be eradicated.
If you're talking about a small minority made up of torturers, cold-blooded murderers, and child rapists, why yes, I
do believe that a majority can decide that that particular minority can be eradicated. In fact, I believe that justice requires it.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke