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» 5/08/2012 9:01:19 PM You see Killarney, there's this thing called reality. If your beliefs don't make logical s.....
» 5/08/2012 3:36:06 PM If people want trees they should have every right to grow them or buy them, and if they do.....
» 3/08/2012 7:58:11 PM Emperor Julian and Chris That presupposes that you know how to run an economy. You don't.....
» 3/08/2012 6:56:26 PM Cheryl, thank you for showing that you have to offer nothing but instant descent into pers.....
» 3/08/2012 3:05:32 PM Cheryl, Killarney Employers are no more guilty of failing to provide jobs for old people .....
» 3/08/2012 11:31:55 AM The problem with this article is that it doesn't say what's wrong with age discrimination,.....
» 1/08/2012 11:30:43 AM Chris, if your argument is right, why not have government undertake all manufacturing? Whe.....
» 31/07/2012 6:08:30 PM Viv, you need to understand your readership here on OLO includes people whose stupidity is.....
» 21/07/2012 1:31:56 AM C.unt is truly a venerable word that goes way back in the Indo-European family, and is pro.....
» 1/05/2012 9:13:21 PM Michael, if you read "What Has Government Done to Our Money?" and "The Myst.....
» 1/05/2012 9:05:24 PM I have always liked gold but alas never actually had much of it. However one time at a gol.....
» 2/04/2012 9:09:48 AM Don't call it the public service. They are servants of the government, and most of what th.....
» 14/03/2012 6:42:11 PM Australian academics are centrist or right wing? Ha! A horse-laugh to that. Of course Sque.....
» 8/03/2012 10:46:14 AM Sounds like you need to get the guy who understands meeting procedure to chair the meeting.....
» 7/03/2012 9:09:49 AM You can only shake your head in wonder at the confusion of someone who writes an article c.....
» 24/01/2012 6:42:56 AM • Misrepresent me and mind-read over and over again, then pretend you didn’t, then refuse .....
» 24/01/2012 6:40:29 AM Sir Vivor All your political beliefs are intended to achieve economic ends, namely the sup.....
» 23/01/2012 11:57:53 PM "What Peter Hume seems to be promoting is open, economic oligarchy, or feaudalism...&.....
» 23/01/2012 7:40:32 AM John PIlger speaks truth to power, right on, and it's refreshing to hear his voice raised .....
» 23/01/2012 12:13:26 AM What if you are wrong? That would explain why it's wrong for you to support military imp.....
» 23/01/2012 12:09:13 AM For all you know, I might think greater freedom under a government complying with the US C.....
» 23/01/2012 12:07:03 AM (Lincoln’s openly stated purpose in going to war was not to free the slaves, but to “save .....
» 23/01/2012 12:01:55 AM The general issue is whether a vote for Ron Paul would be preferable to a vote for Obama, .....
» 22/01/2012 12:07:21 AM Now should be a great time for freedom, because it is obvious that socialism and fascism a.....
» 22/01/2012 12:03:17 AM Unlike the statists of left and right, libertarians do not pretend to know what values eve.....
» 21/01/2012 11:59:48 PM … with compromise in practice, but not principle, toward the overall value of liberty. T.....
» 21/01/2012 11:58:35 PM Passy 1. Are you in favour of ending the Fed? If so, you agree with Ron Paul. If not, then.....
» 21/01/2012 7:47:06 AM "'Men and misogyny are two separate things'" How very gracious of you to say so.....
» 20/01/2012 9:24:46 PM What if government, far from being a righteous counter-weight to big business, is the wors.....
» 20/01/2012 9:21:47 PM (cont.) It is governments’, not corporations’, revenues that are compulsory. Why doesn’t .....
» 20/01/2012 9:19:30 PM (cont.) However even if your assertion were true, at least the people would have the opti.....
» 20/01/2012 9:17:23 PM Spot on Arjay, thanks Valley Guy. David f If you weren’t being dishonest, then I’m sorry......
» 19/01/2012 6:08:20 PM Sir Vivor It is unclear what point you are trying to make by your quote of Ron Paul. Pau.....
» 19/01/2012 6:04:54 PM “The killing of large numbers of people by US forces would not stop under Paul.” David, i.....
» 19/01/2012 8:20:27 AM "I shall vote for Obama with a regret that there is no better alternative." Ama.....
» 19/01/2012 8:19:12 AM So the best the left can come up with is that they would prefer to mindlessly support the .....
» 18/01/2012 8:25:52 PM For someone who calls herself a libertarian, arguing in favour of more governmental regula.....
» 17/01/2012 7:14:41 PM mralstoner So do you think all free trade should be abolished, i.e. no-one should be free.....
» 17/01/2012 8:19:40 AM The article just re-runs all the usual statist assumptions that society is essentially unw.....
» 17/01/2012 7:51:53 AM When libertarians of a former age denied that burning witches has any social benefit whats.....
» 16/01/2012 5:04:12 PM You would think that somebody who went to the trouble to write an article about free trade.....
» 16/01/2012 8:38:44 AM "What is fair pay for hospitality workers?" The author did not answer his own q.....
» 10/01/2012 4:32:45 PM Those who can only think of one way to conserve forests - government ownership or control .....
» 9/01/2012 8:38:19 PM Just thought I would add my wife's quotable quote of the day: "You can fool everyone .....
» 9/01/2012 6:15:56 PM If the answer is that the state gets to decide, then obviously no-one has a right to any f.....
» 9/01/2012 6:14:28 PM I also appreciate this refreshing change from the constant diet of nanny-state fascism tha.....
» 7/01/2012 7:40:26 PM (cont.) The social function of the entrepreneur is to undertake that risk and that charge......
» 7/01/2012 7:36:36 PM The interest of *future* consumers is expressed through the calculation of *capital value*.....
» 7/01/2012 7:33:25 PM Criticising double-entry book-keeping for not being able to express non-money values that .....
» 7/01/2012 5:43:29 AM I admire John Pilger's work as one of the major critics of wars and acts of state aggressi.....
» 7/01/2012 5:17:54 AM Wow. I'll certainly give John full marks for concise......
» 6/01/2012 6:57:58 PM She is getting too old to do the work, but worries that she has no other way to support he.....
» 6/01/2012 6:54:23 PM mac “Ownership of the means of production is totally irrelevant to both double entry bookk.....
» 6/01/2012 4:42:38 PM Socialists griping at the lack of freedom. Amazing. Look in the mirror. And then it turn.....
» 6/01/2012 4:27:02 PM Bryan, mac, Roses1 Perhaps you could start by telling us what's the "real value".....
» 3/01/2012 7:34:34 PM Sillyfilly The problem is that what the scientific institutions are claiming is not backed.....
» 3/01/2012 5:39:33 AM I'm the one arguing in favour of freedom in here, you're arguing against, remember? You .....
» 3/01/2012 5:35:28 AM Diverdan You, and all my opponents in this thread, are failing to make the connection betw.....
» 2/01/2012 10:26:25 PM All The problems the statists have to answer are these. How can you say that threatening.....
» 2/01/2012 10:12:32 PM You guys can believe that we can create wealth by printing pieces of paper and stamping do.....
» 1/01/2012 9:50:44 PM “that will prove ultimately worthless when fossil carbon resources are exhausted.” I thin.....
» 1/01/2012 9:47:14 PM Therefore *at best* all you would have is the logical fallacy of ‘post hoc ergo propter ho.....
» 1/01/2012 9:42:15 PM Foyle, Saltpetre Imagine A and B having the following discussion: A: “2 + 2 = 19.” B: .....
» 1/01/2012 8:50:28 AM "The countries have agreed to negotiate a binding agreement. No agreement has actuall.....
» 31/12/2011 9:00:58 PM “Consider the trillions spent on the violent acquisition (sorry, 'liberation') of foreign .....
» 31/12/2011 8:55:54 PM Grim “And now to Peter Hume. Only someone suffering from egregious narcissistic personalit.....
» 31/12/2011 6:31:02 PM All that list proves is that people wouldn’t voluntarily pay for them. So what? Why should.....
» 31/12/2011 6:27:57 PM “Why is it that Germany's economy is performing much more strongly (in recent times) when .....
» 31/12/2011 6:25:22 PM The important thing is not equality per se, but rather that people be able to share in the.....
» 31/12/2011 6:23:15 PM TurnLeftThenRight “You… haven't chosen any specific point and described how it is fallacio.....
» 30/12/2011 4:03:56 PM There’s no need for me to “come up with a new line” while ever your argument consists of: .....
» 30/12/2011 3:27:03 PM So you admit you cannot justify the policies you advocate.....
» 30/12/2011 3:07:46 PM Tony An irrefutable disproof of your ethical argument can be found here: http://forum.onli.....
» 30/12/2011 1:06:45 PM An article that is full of thought, and almost all of it fallacious, many times over. Ba.....
» 30/12/2011 1:04:47 PM Poirot, Grim By repeating the fallacies I have identified in your argument - authority and.....
» 30/12/2011 9:30:39 AM Real Red Guards stuff. Young people brainwashed by relentless fascist propaganda to think .....
» 29/12/2011 10:15:27 PM Poirot, do you understand that what you're saying is circular, or are you not aware of it?.....
» 29/12/2011 11:47:47 AM PEST The problem is not with what the scientific bodies are saying. You, Poirot, Clive Ham.....
» 29/12/2011 11:38:14 AM Poirot "The science apparently is never settled, although an overwhelming majority of.....
» 29/12/2011 9:33:08 AM And so the recommended means to cut our fertility rate is...?.....
» 29/12/2011 9:12:35 AM Poirot And Clive Hamilton got to the conference by row-boat, I suppose, just as you have s.....
» 28/12/2011 10:06:07 AM "We must recognise that the UN is the best system we have to find solutions to the cl.....
» 26/12/2011 7:50:24 PM "... this is just a bit more of the mysterious stuff." Certainly it is. Also .....
» 26/12/2011 3:24:20 PM Stop right there. This is nutty. Isn't it? Come on Christians, repeat after me "Yes .....
» 26/12/2011 3:20:23 PM The great thing about Christmas is that Jesus was born of a virgin so we could get Christm.....
» 23/12/2011 9:41:22 AM As a matter of international law, the idea that secession requires the permission of the o.....
» 21/12/2011 4:50:26 AM "why not ... answer all your own questions posed above?" I did. My point is t.....
» 20/12/2011 7:19:14 PM "Pure fantasy." Are you speaking from experience? Or cluelessness? You can't .....
» 19/12/2011 5:09:00 PM I don't think they're actually getting a million are they? That's just what they're hoping.....
» 19/12/2011 11:07:20 AM Considering the author’s experience and seniority, I find his analysis rather naïve. He .....
» 19/12/2011 9:43:32 AM Trying to find the source of the river of negative attitudes that Christians have towards .....
» 19/12/2011 9:22:43 AM "... the absence of even the remotest familiarity - let alone any form of affection ......
» 19/12/2011 8:17:45 AM Providing sexual services no more strips people of their humanity than does providing othe.....
» 15/12/2011 9:03:47 AM Shal Angry ad hominem and links to absent authority with more angry ad hominem. So persu.....
» 13/12/2011 8:06:54 PM 6. At the empirical level, what reason is there to think that violation of property right.....
» 13/12/2011 8:05:49 PM (Hoppe continued): “…The structure of my argument is this: (a) justification is propositio.....
» 13/12/2011 8:03:43 PM There are a number of issues. 1. Whether rational autonomous moral agent independent of e.....
» 11/12/2011 7:31:10 AM David Okay, read that. And what do you say it proves that is relevant to the Durban conf.....
» 9/12/2011 3:29:22 PM Therefore the onus is on you to show reason which would not negate property rights themsel.....
» 9/12/2011 3:26:01 PM 6. For that reason it would minimize unnecessary conflict, which is the purpose of rules o.....
» 9/12/2011 3:23:38 PM As to the ethical basis of my argument, what claims can count is limited by the fact that .....
» 9/12/2011 3:20:01 PM “I have just lost half an hor's work replying to you” My commiserations. “--using a pub.....
» 9/12/2011 1:42:22 PM Daffy The governing class is those who are governing ... durr. Those who live at the expe.....
» 9/12/2011 7:59:25 AM Brilliant. Look the whole thing is just too absurd for words. The climatology is riddled.....
» 8/12/2011 12:26:26 PM leckos There are limiting factors and if we are running into one, and there's no substitut.....
» 8/12/2011 11:53:34 AM (cont.) However not even socialists ever claimed to stand for the socialisation of the me.....
» 8/12/2011 11:49:10 AM Poirot "As it stands at present, to use the U.S. for example, total debt per U.S. cit.....
» 8/12/2011 9:30:00 AM "In a secular society the state should not be concerned in dabbling in issues about w.....
» 8/12/2011 9:15:30 AM "While in general voters expect governments to keep promises..." and government.....
» 7/12/2011 7:40:20 PM ozbib No, it wasn't with me. What are the two fallacies? And what do you say to what I sa.....
» 7/12/2011 5:33:07 PM Yes Hasbeen, the horses could live off much more marginal country too. Another example o.....
» 7/12/2011 5:32:41 PM "... and I'm not even an economist." You can say that again. As usual, your met.....
» 7/12/2011 2:27:50 PM Saltpetre "Just how much consultation would you suggest, how could it be implemented,.....
» 7/12/2011 1:58:41 PM Poirot A derivative is, by definition, the wrong place to look for the origin of something.....
» 7/12/2011 1:50:06 PM “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline.....
» 7/12/2011 7:48:52 AM Reminds me of the story of the investigative journalist during the Seoul Olympics, at a ma.....
» 7/12/2011 6:39:05 AM “…your 'economic calculation' … is just a construct in your mind…” No it’s not. Economic .....
» 7/12/2011 6:33:37 AM “[E]ducation … services are provided … at appropriate standards…” How do you know? You .....
» 7/12/2011 6:30:59 AM How does that refute my argument? All you’ve done is list a whole lot of government activi.....
» 6/12/2011 6:57:59 AM But the very real limitations on economic calculation do not reduce its enormous utility f.....
» 6/12/2011 6:55:20 AM All that money really tells us, is that a given person buying prefers a bottle of milk, or.....
» 5/12/2011 11:19:28 PM “We have the polls, we have the media…” Why should you or I have to try to get what we w.....
» 5/12/2011 11:13:28 PM Saltpetre My specific suggestion for improvement is freedom. Freedom doesn’t mean chaos an.....
» 5/12/2011 10:55:11 AM There is no mystery where public debt comes from. What a collection of infants, whining .....
» 4/12/2011 10:23:43 PM Furthermore, it is the oldest fallacy in economics that one person’s wealth is the cause o.....
» 4/12/2011 10:15:09 PM “How this is to be argued depends on how property is justified in the first place. To save.....
» 4/12/2011 10:04:26 PM “Your comment about Hart and Dworkins is not entirely clear. Each would be surprised to th.....
» 4/12/2011 3:24:28 PM Ludwig, my reason for being agnostic on your point 1 is because my agreeing to it would de.....
» 4/12/2011 2:54:35 PM ozbib Thank you. I reject any implication that you speak from a position of superior kn.....
» 3/12/2011 8:05:09 AM I agree with the author that we are in a sweet spot. My grandfather by my age had gone thr.....
» 2/12/2011 10:53:30 PM ozbib You comment consists of nothing but fallacies 1. appeal to absent authority - someon.....
» 2/12/2011 8:02:38 PM Has it ever occurred to you this principle will only give government incentive to find, en.....
» 2/12/2011 7:59:55 PM "I defy any serious economist to find fault with them..." Fine, but then don't .....
» 2/12/2011 10:20:29 AM Ludwig What policies would you put in place, and how would you define a successful outcome.....
» 30/11/2011 4:43:03 PM ozbib Instead of appealing to absent authority and assuming what is in issue - two fallaci.....
» 30/11/2011 1:26:01 PM Interesting and funny article. However I feel that any discussion of the economic proble.....
» 30/11/2011 12:50:36 PM Stephen, a good and interesting article. The whole thing can be boiled down to this. Eit.....
» 23/11/2011 9:03:01 PM Saltpetre You talk about me forgetting science as if you had just refuted my arguments sho.....
» 23/11/2011 9:40:29 AM People always talk about "our" such-and-such "system" when it's being .....
» 23/11/2011 9:19:44 AM Speaking of Christian ethics, I don't recall anything about Jesus saying "Get a group.....
» 22/11/2011 7:34:51 PM I don’t know whether it is more tragedy or farce to hear of great droves of these parasiti.....
» 22/11/2011 7:30:19 PM To state so positively that warming must necessarily be, on balance, bad presupposes knowl.....
» 22/11/2011 7:29:21 PM (cont.) and as Bugsy seems to have done, with an argument that Dessler’s conclusion is s.....
» 22/11/2011 7:28:02 PM Steven’s challenge was on the criterion of rationality so it is enough to point out ration.....
» 21/11/2011 4:22:47 PM Firstly we have already established that the point about Dessler is immaterial to what is .....
» 20/11/2011 9:21:01 PM >>Thanks for the link, but doesn't support your assertion. Yes it does. You don’t s.....
» 20/11/2011 11:14:59 AM qanda What kind of answer is that? Dessler himself says the correlation is weak. A child.....
» 20/11/2011 10:30:32 AM qanda Perhaps you are right that I don’t understand the science. But *nothing* that you ha.....
» 20/11/2011 7:08:53 AM Sorry: see the top graph on page 1525 ftp://ftp.ingv.it/pub/pietropaolo.bertagnolio/clima.....
» 19/11/2011 8:39:01 PM Bugsy “So, in the interest of moving forward…” Thank you for the intellectual honesty of.....
» 18/11/2011 11:10:56 AM Bugsy Wow - bitter personal insult. We are amazed at the rationality of your argument. S.....
» 16/11/2011 8:55:10 PM “You want me to admit that I'm irrational because you like to argue per fallaciam?” Misre.....
» 16/11/2011 7:46:38 PM No rational argument, no surprise. If you won't join issue on my earlier questions which.....
» 16/11/2011 7:29:08 PM Bugsy “you tie yourself up in knots trying to prove whatever you don't like is irrational.....
» 16/11/2011 9:17:31 AM Bugsy If an amateur points out a logical fallacy, the fact that he is an amateur cannot sa.....
» 15/11/2011 7:35:46 PM Furthermore, the method of taking account of the human values in issue must be rational an.....
» 15/11/2011 7:32:35 PM Bugsy Neither Banks nor Darwin made their income from biology, so they were not professio.....
» 15/11/2011 8:16:37 AM However even if we were faced with global warming as significant as defined, there would s.....
» 15/11/2011 8:15:54 AM “give me RATIONAL reasons for believing that you are right and most of the world's best sc.....
» 14/11/2011 10:57:13 AM Q: How can you tell the Americans at the international airport? A: They're the ones stripp.....
» 12/11/2011 9:32:28 AM Yes Graham, congratulations, it's great. It's really unique in history - ain't the interne.....
» 10/11/2011 9:41:06 AM All it's showing, once again, is that central planning doesn't work. How can one person, o.....
» 10/11/2011 8:39:59 AM Ah, Myanmar. Another socialist paradise, this one with the potholes as big as bath-tubs, a.....
» 9/11/2011 11:16:39 AM “The integration project should therefore be re-thought or even re-invented to make it fit.....
» 9/11/2011 7:59:28 AM Of course the absurdity of the left-wing position of 'labour versus capital' is that they .....
» 8/11/2011 7:50:25 AM The author’s argument rests on an ethical double standard. Everyone else is assumed to be .....
» 7/11/2011 8:56:22 PM So obviously forcing everyone to fund the far greater scale and aggression of modern state.....
» 7/11/2011 8:50:13 PM … would be available. I think counterfeiting money would be a criminal offence, instead of.....
» 7/11/2011 8:44:57 PM … implicitly asserts the right of self-ownership of himself in order to speak. It’s either.....
» 7/11/2011 8:34:49 PM JoberSudge “Human rights are supposed to apply equally to all who are human…” Bingo. That.....
» 7/11/2011 12:34:25 PM Evolutionary theory has got far more explaining power than climate science. Interestingly .....
» 7/11/2011 11:45:30 AM "The process focuses on the victim's ability to participate in the criminal process, .....
» 6/11/2011 8:12:47 PM All your argument amounts to, is re-asserting fallacies I have just disproved with Hazza, .....
» 6/11/2011 8:03:35 PM It’s no use saying slavery is illegal. It’s only illegal because - after long ages in whic.....
» 6/11/2011 8:00:46 PM Therefore your argument is factually wrong, your train of reasoning collapses into confusi.....
» 6/11/2011 7:58:50 PM Hazza You haven’t answered the numbered questions which disprove you, because you know you.....
» 6/11/2011 7:08:21 PM "Australia doesn’t tax too little: we spend too much." Bingo! Or rather, ".....
» 6/11/2011 1:13:14 PM Squeers ignores the complete logical disproof of his argument, and just instantly returns .....
» 6/11/2011 9:55:26 AM Strictly speaking, if he hasn't inherited, he's not an heir, he's an heir apparent. A ver.....
» 6/11/2011 8:04:17 AM Squeers Since you disclaim rationality as an intellectual method - it's just an ideologica.....
» 5/11/2011 4:07:06 PM Ms S So governments are under the control of banks, and therefore we need more government .....
» 5/11/2011 4:04:32 PM I can't believe you guys calling for more taxes. Talk about the slaves applauding as the c.....
» 5/11/2011 3:49:59 PM 12. You repeat the furphy about tax being voluntary contributions, which is simply false,.....
» 5/11/2011 3:44:09 PM 8. You still haven’t explained why threatening to lock people in a cage is good or just a.....
» 5/11/2011 3:40:05 PM 3. If you have the right to speak for you, why doesn’t this right apply equally to everyo.....
» 5/11/2011 3:38:01 PM Saltpetre What do you suggest as an alternative to burning your house down? Not burning yo.....
» 4/11/2011 7:24:28 PM The author only deals with the problems as a matter of the climate science. He doesn't eve.....
» 3/11/2011 10:44:22 AM With the rise of the money economy, the feudal incidents of tenure evolved into different .....
» 3/11/2011 10:40:45 AM Saltpetre, states have killed over 100 million people in the last century, mostly of their.....
» 3/11/2011 9:32:25 AM So here she was in dreadful distress, her possibility of any kind of enjoyable or even non.....
» 3/11/2011 9:30:21 AM The risk of abuse cuts both ways. I had recent experience of this, as we had the palliat.....
» 2/11/2011 6:15:55 PM I did address why the specific 'excuses' were bad:- because all the same arguments would b.....
» 2/11/2011 5:26:58 PM ‘But these are nonsense arguments’ “A pity Peter, I was hoping you would explain why- but .....
» 2/11/2011 10:14:43 AM Squeers Then who has the right to speak for you? You? Or someone else?.....
» 2/11/2011 9:12:53 AM The problem is that it’s meaningless to define human rights as whatever States say they ar.....
» 23/10/2011 9:22:40 PM 579 You're talking form your mid-brain, not your forebrain. Carbon is not a pollutant yo.....
» 23/10/2011 1:44:32 AM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 21/10/2011 9:48:14 PM Good. You could start by explaining why, according to your logic, sexual preference should.....
» 21/10/2011 9:54:18 AM The problem with the author's analysis is that she just assumes that whatever government d.....
» 20/10/2011 8:51:54 AM Yes Belly, hear hear. Unfortunately the democratic process guarantees more of the same. On.....
» 20/10/2011 6:57:40 AM Howard Tell it like it is! Not just the amendments to a particular Act. I mean, what are .....
» 18/10/2011 9:46:18 PM Go Howard. So what policy changes would you bring in if you could?.....
» 18/10/2011 9:32:56 PM “I've written before that a community of humans could be viewed as a living organism.” It.....
» 18/10/2011 8:12:18 AM Me neither; they weren't exactly in touch with their nurturing side. And I admit that's t.....
» 17/10/2011 2:56:25 PM "It's a wise man who knows his own father." Homer.....
» 16/10/2011 8:26:58 PM Unless you are able to a) understand b) correctly represent, and c) refute the argument fr.....
» 16/10/2011 8:23:19 PM Loudmouth Firstly, the charge that capitalism is “rapacious” and “unsustainable” is, in o.....
» 16/10/2011 5:21:04 PM Squeers You said this: “It's the fascist free-marketeers who are…” which abusive insult .....
» 16/10/2011 4:59:37 PM … a peculiarly female thing: a product of femaleness and the spirit world. (And even now o.....
» 16/10/2011 4:49:55 PM JamesH Please don’t dignify the author’s obnoxious prurience with the name of altruism. .....
» 15/10/2011 9:00:15 PM Squeers Come on, obviously you agree with government control of business; right? And obvio.....
» 15/10/2011 8:21:54 PM "...man's Christianity (which is of a patriarchal construct) veered away from the fem.....
» 15/10/2011 9:41:39 AM Okay now I get it. Temple Grandin's perspective is interesting. You know her autism show.....
» 15/10/2011 2:24:14 AM Squeers Speaking of fascists, which of Hitler's economic policies do you *not* agree with?.....
» 15/10/2011 2:19:25 AM Poirot “…Christianity sublimated human sexuality and contained it inside the vessel of mar.....
» 14/10/2011 5:46:47 PM Very weighty matter. I agree with the others. No, there is no meaning to life, it just .....
» 14/10/2011 2:43:22 PM Grim The fact that you think you know better than everyone else in the world put together .....
» 14/10/2011 2:26:01 PM Squeers If only you could tell everyone else in the world what to do and have, *then* what.....
» 14/10/2011 8:52:18 AM runner shows the underlying Christian view that everything other than monogamous married s.....
» 13/10/2011 8:31:38 PM Squeers That's just ideology......
» 13/10/2011 8:18:52 PM I can't really understand what distinction she's trying to make. To me, the tension is a.....
» 13/10/2011 8:05:39 PM "...it is a well-known fact that Jesus was not a Protestant. " LOL. He accepted.....
» 13/10/2011 6:37:49 PM "Do you really think the pink bats and BER issues are symptoms of anything new and un.....
» 13/10/2011 6:16:16 PM I remember also reading an interview with a Thai woman about the difference between Americ.....
» 13/10/2011 6:06:56 PM Deadly “Could you please define 'porn' for me, as you intended it in your article?” Aye t.....
» 13/10/2011 2:13:32 PM "And lo and behold, Aussie dollar jumped above parity again after the carbon tax pass.....
» 13/10/2011 11:10:00 AM " After all, it was organizations like hers, together with news ltd and the coalition.....
» 12/10/2011 10:08:55 PM As stupid as you in persisting in the opinion that a government power to print money is ne.....
» 12/10/2011 8:44:14 PM Many people have an abiding hatred of sex and sexuality, don't they?.....
» 12/10/2011 7:08:25 PM Poirot So you don't answer the question, accuse me of bad faith, and give no reason why. .....
» 12/10/2011 9:41:23 AM Tristan I think you’re trying to have a bet each way. One the one hand if you’re going .....
» 12/10/2011 7:47:58 AM Poirot There are a number of ways the status quo could be improved on, many of which are a.....
» 11/10/2011 10:12:36 PM The value of a capitalists' contribution doesn't come from whether he personally works. If.....
» 11/10/2011 10:10:20 PM "The problem is not the men it is the insecure women who feel they must undress to ap.....
» 11/10/2011 8:58:28 PM … according to the social democrat view, such policies were necessary to avoid capitalist .....
» 11/10/2011 8:41:42 PM Tristan Since according to your theory, employment is intrinsically exploitative, why not.....
» 11/10/2011 8:26:50 PM Poirot More ad hom in substitution of relevant argument. Wow. Amazing. And this shows .....
» 11/10/2011 11:29:23 AM Poirot The difference between my ad hominem argument and the socialists’ is that mine form.....
» 10/10/2011 9:47:17 PM All the author's arguments were refuted in her article on prostitution, which argued simil.....
» 10/10/2011 9:05:46 PM “.. in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russ.....
» 10/10/2011 8:54:25 PM Chris That is not an argument of substance but only takes the entire matter back to name-c.....
» 10/10/2011 12:22:57 PM The problem is not confined to "facilities". The question is why any given tra.....
» 10/10/2011 9:38:02 AM I note you have evaded answering the questions which would show whether your argument is i.....
» 9/10/2011 9:05:18 PM Ozbib Great. So you admit your services were only worth half what you were getting paid? .....
» 9/10/2011 8:18:20 PM (Poirot is reduced to arguing that freedom is slavery, which just says it all, doesn’t it?.....
» 9/10/2011 9:19:27 AM You guys are only showing how meaningless is the whole left/right dichotomy. It sheds more.....
» 8/10/2011 10:27:25 PM Squeers You give no reason (oh that's right, you don't do reason - that's just bourgeois.....
» 8/10/2011 9:07:32 PM david My argument is that in defending the socialism you approve of, you must and do make.....
» 8/10/2011 12:27:35 PM If a general presumption were available that public ownership is superior, then the Marxis.....
» 8/10/2011 12:02:44 PM "In some cases private ownership works better. In others public ownership works bette.....
» 8/10/2011 9:39:29 AM “I was saying that in the absence of such conditions no such "putative" tendency.....
» 8/10/2011 12:55:39 AM No-one in this entire thread has made any valid argument against free trade. Steve Keen'.....
» 7/10/2011 11:45:18 PM Can't believe the ignorance and stupidity of this article. Anyone saying austerity measure.....
» 7/10/2011 10:19:23 PM David So what? That doesn't establish any argument against free trade. Obviously you didn'.....
» 7/10/2011 10:12:07 PM david Clearly the Marxists have nothing to offer but evasion and circularity. What I fin.....
» 7/10/2011 6:43:34 PM To confuse society with the state, as the author has done, is precisely to practise the ki.....
» 7/10/2011 6:42:16 PM The author has only made a case for the practice of philosophy, not for it being paid for .....
» 7/10/2011 9:14:23 AM But it's not voluntary, that's the whole point. You just need to understand that you hold .....
» 7/10/2011 9:12:03 AM Poirot I admit I always find the self-awarded halo of Marxist economic illiterates to be .....
» 6/10/2011 8:14:17 PM "The question is whether the communist dictatorships since Marx were accurate renditi.....
» 5/10/2011 4:43:34 PM David Okay, good article, got all that, I reckon you got 'em right between the eyes. Now.....
» 5/10/2011 10:18:05 AM "Let's face it we're addicted to happy motoring consequences be damned." (Says .....
» 30/09/2011 9:54:06 AM Steve But doesn't that argument only prove that the capital lost was that misallocated by .....
» 29/09/2011 12:10:34 PM Poirot, Sarnian, Arjay You are only stating your false belief that productive activity is .....
» 28/09/2011 6:20:28 PM Nothing of what the author says gives any reason in favour of protectionism, nor says what.....
» 28/09/2011 4:54:38 PM Trust Poirot to rush in with the arguments for starvation. I remember when the Chinese w.....
» 27/09/2011 8:59:42 AM If only we had Betsy to make everyone else's decisions for them, then what a paradise we w.....
» 26/09/2011 3:08:39 PM Grim The arguments for free trade do not depend on an imaginary state in which everyone is.....
» 25/09/2011 10:47:52 PM Poirot Your argument depends on confusing private versus governmental control of the mean.....
» 25/09/2011 10:05:13 PM Grim Then it is not limited to Australia but includes everyone in the world who is not a .....
» 25/09/2011 11:15:52 AM What frustrates me about these discussions is that Mises showed in 1921 why attempts to im.....
» 25/09/2011 11:14:48 AM “However, it may be possible that socialism can be implemented without authoritarian rule......
» 25/09/2011 11:12:01 AM david “...Marxism … is only one form of socialism.” Yes indeedy. They all have in common .....
» 24/09/2011 10:13:50 PM "Capitalism certainly has been formed in blood and tears..." You're just as bra.....
» 24/09/2011 10:07:03 PM Yes, david, what you need to realise is that Poirot and Squeers really do think that the h.....
» 23/09/2011 1:04:21 PM Chris The arguments for free trade do not assume an imaginary state in which everyone els.....
» 23/09/2011 12:41:26 PM Poirot The fact that Marx failed to think through the necessary logical consequences of h.....
» 23/09/2011 10:17:54 AM Bazz I don't know. It's a counter-factual historical contingency isn't it? People use w.....
» 23/09/2011 9:59:21 AM However the fatal flaw in the author's argument is that the arguments for free trade do no.....
» 22/09/2011 11:39:55 PM That’s right, his theory really is that daft. Proletarian “material forces of production” .....
» 22/09/2011 11:31:35 PM Squeers “I think Marx was right in almost everything, at least right in terms of the mater.....
» 22/09/2011 8:43:23 PM Nev Okay so you go from opposing free trade, to saying it's not all bad. You now enterta.....
» 22/09/2011 12:33:10 PM Foyle Unfortunately that is no refutation of the arguments in favour of free trade, and pl.....
» 22/09/2011 2:39:58 AM The debate on free trade requires an understanding of the arguments for it, and that requi.....
» 21/09/2011 9:09:30 PM Governments controlled the supply and price of money and money substitutes at all times be.....
» 21/09/2011 8:29:09 PM Nev If we take away your name-calling, misrepresentations/lying, and logical incoherence, .....
» 21/09/2011 7:19:20 PM ... the Great Depression and the GFC would not have happened. “To assume that completely.....
» 21/09/2011 7:15:42 PM “Any contribution to a discussion on protection should focus on what kind of country we wi.....
» 20/09/2011 12:25:47 PM Sorry, my quote of the author omitted part of a sentence the whole of which should read: &.....
» 20/09/2011 12:21:34 PM Everything in the author’s article hinges on this proposition, which is incorrect. “Theor.....
» 20/09/2011 4:22:42 AM All That is why I originally called the belief in AGW policy action a “superstition”. It i.....
» 20/09/2011 4:21:52 AM Anthony You’re not proposing a voluntary scheme, are you? You want a policy – an enforced .....
» 18/09/2011 9:55:17 PM “Ummm, Peter ... Tom Tiddler is in fact the author (Tim Curtin) of this article. Going by .....
» 18/09/2011 9:49:21 PM “Climate science – including the substantial body of knowledge that is already well establ.....
» 18/09/2011 9:46:34 PM But it seems to be saying that policy choices have to be made about climate change in the .....
» 18/09/2011 9:45:15 PM Bonmot Can you see how the Royal Society quote does not answer any of the issues raised he.....
» 17/09/2011 11:43:03 PM Just because some people don't like something, doesn't mean they are justified in forcing .....
» 17/09/2011 11:41:51 PM Your argument only makes sense if you've established a reason to restrict anything in the .....
» 17/09/2011 9:32:59 PM Both Tom Tiddler and Anthony have demonstrated what I said in my first post. The warmists .....
» 17/09/2011 9:30:14 PM “I can afford to smile and be patient and watch as the argument and history come to me.” .....
» 17/09/2011 9:26:49 PM (cont.) “I can see that you're really comitted to your beliefs.” Personal argument, min.....
» 17/09/2011 9:24:22 PM Anthony Thank you for openly confirming that the whole belief system supporting a carbon .....
» 15/09/2011 10:02:49 PM Appeal to absent authority, ho hum. Okay, let's put aside your evasions and cut to the c.....
» 15/09/2011 8:33:12 PM Fourthly science does not supply value judgments, while policy requires them. So even if t.....
» 15/09/2011 8:31:32 PM Antony Firstly your reply consists of *nothing but* reliance on vested interests, appeal t.....
» 15/09/2011 7:04:46 PM Briar rose You've got the onus of proof back the front. The starting point is not that eve.....
» 15/09/2011 6:12:09 PM "Is it wrong to assume it is still government duty to develop infrastructure to allow.....
» 15/09/2011 1:18:57 PM JFAus You seem to running the same old assumptions about governmnent policy creating wealt.....
» 15/09/2011 9:58:30 AM Or what about the recent case in Australia, where a guy was convicted of having pictures o.....
» 15/09/2011 9:55:10 AM “What is your problem with that?” Firstly as you’ve expressed it, you’re going to “leave” .....
» 14/09/2011 10:48:02 PM All the advocates of a carbon tax have been disproved over and over and over and over agai.....
» 14/09/2011 10:11:50 PM This article contains the same flaws as the arguments in favour of gay "marriage".....
» 14/09/2011 9:54:26 PM briar rose Houllebecq is right. People can "protect" themselves by not seeking.....
» 13/09/2011 8:36:06 PM The Democrats and Republicans - except Ron Paul - think it's desirable to take trillions o.....
» 12/09/2011 11:32:49 PM If we had a free market in education, a great diversity of services would spring up, from .....
» 12/09/2011 11:19:39 PM Virtually all households with children including the poorest tend to give priority to educ.....
» 12/09/2011 11:17:10 PM I read an article recently about private tutors, whom many people hire to try to compensat.....
» 12/09/2011 11:11:55 PM Baygon “So the essay needs to be seen not as discussing the nerits or other wise of state .....
» 12/09/2011 1:44:41 PM I agree with the author about refugees, completely disagree about the public service. Th.....
» 10/09/2011 10:47:14 AM What about those whose disabilities confine them to bed? Should the airlines have a legal .....
» 10/09/2011 10:45:52 AM People should be free to choose, educators should go out of business if they don't satisfy.....
» 10/09/2011 10:39:08 AM You are all giving reasons against a compulsory centralised bureucratic education system, .....
» 10/09/2011 9:53:42 AM Yes, I agree. The age of consent should be 25. Just to be safe. Children under that age do.....
» 8/09/2011 10:45:17 PM "I've never referred to anyone on this forum as "you fool" or an "idio.....
» 8/09/2011 10:38:24 PM Hare Krishna "Four legs good, two legs bad" Might is right The state is god Baaa.....
» 8/09/2011 7:14:41 PM Antiseptic No, Molly didn’t answer your question, and none of them answered mine, did they.....
» 8/09/2011 7:10:51 PM Poirot The difference between your ad hominem and mine is that yours is the *foundation* o.....
» 8/09/2011 3:15:38 PM L.B. If it's not inconveniencing everyone else, I agree that the airline should do as you.....
» 8/09/2011 8:58:31 AM Jocelynn Scutt seems to have forgotten the human right to freedom of association. Babies d.....
» 7/09/2011 4:29:05 PM David, the advocates of policy action on global warming have been consistently thrashed be.....
» 6/09/2011 3:53:39 AM By contrast, you guys all *actively flee from disproofs*, taking refuge in circularity. I .....
» 6/09/2011 3:49:06 AM Whatever the differences between people, nature still imposes certain unchangeable limitat.....
» 6/09/2011 3:45:55 AM In particular, Ludwig von Mises has proved that socialism is not even possible *in theory*.....
» 6/09/2011 3:44:45 AM Poirot Ad hominem mind-reading, ho hum. So what’s happened in our long series of exchan.....
» 5/09/2011 10:25:32 PM The idea of a comeback for the sociopath Rudd speaks volumes for Labor's desperation, clue.....
» 5/09/2011 10:21:07 PM miacat Why don't you fund old people to do PhDs? And why don't you employ them if you th.....
» 5/09/2011 6:33:47 PM Formersnag "This story is really about preventing parents from protecting their child.....
» 5/09/2011 6:10:41 PM Because you haven't established that it is irrational prejudice in the first place. You do.....
» 5/09/2011 1:42:24 PM The recent pious moral panic about global warming is just so much of a re-run in the media.....
» 5/09/2011 1:37:01 PM Separation of church and state won't help if people simply invest the state with the same .....
» 5/09/2011 1:20:35 PM There's no need for naming and shaming Cheryl. Since you believe that the aged are being u.....
» 5/09/2011 12:53:59 PM "'denying acknowledgement of anything other than our sexuality'" Hey! You're de.....
» 4/09/2011 10:54:28 PM The mill owners derived no more benefit from the mill workers above the market rate for th.....
» 4/09/2011 10:53:40 PM … as a basis of social co-operation than coerced relations, both ethically, and in terms o.....
» 4/09/2011 10:52:23 PM ... than that of the richest capitalists in the IR. They gained no more benefit from the w.....
» 4/09/2011 10:46:29 PM Poirot I asked you, in proving that capitalism is exploitative, to take account of the cor.....
» 3/09/2011 10:36:16 PM Your assumption that it would be *harder* for you to find suitable employment in a liberta.....
» 3/09/2011 10:31:01 PM (cont.) When he was aged 11, and academically at age 6, his mother illegally withdrew him.....
» 3/09/2011 10:30:10 PM To allege compulsory state education is “a tool of capitalism” is just confusion. Accordin.....
» 3/09/2011 10:29:06 PM Poirot During the Industrial Revolution, there was a great increase in population. In Brit.....
» 3/09/2011 6:27:27 PM There is no need for any regulation more than the law of contract provides. Women with chi.....
» 2/09/2011 10:29:56 PM Author seems to be having a bet either way, on one hand saying that it is the State's resp.....
» 2/09/2011 9:34:08 PM (cont.) At least you’re honest: - but your sense of entitlement to handouts paid for by c.....
» 2/09/2011 9:31:35 PM (cont.) The fact you *now* consider the minimum standard to be that made possible by moder.....
» 2/09/2011 9:29:55 PM As for the tiny minority who are truly in desperate want of education, that is hardly a re.....
» 2/09/2011 9:28:53 PM Rusty So does that mean if I’m desperate for an ice cream, it would be unfair of the sell.....
» 1/09/2011 9:07:46 PM Mollydukes “I would not be an educated misfit if schools and higher education had not been.....
» 1/09/2011 5:22:06 PM Poirot What's "it"? The unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security i.....
» 1/09/2011 9:34:23 AM “The best thing that the Government can do to assist businesses and workers in the manufac.....
» 1/09/2011 9:00:54 AM Bugsy "I don't think this is anti-rational, they probably are on equal footing. Rain .....
» 1/09/2011 8:40:40 AM Squeers "There's no rigour in the humanities at all-" That's rich coming from y.....
» 31/08/2011 9:05:29 PM Government services always involve a split between paying for a service and receiving it. .....
» 31/08/2011 9:01:31 PM John The argument on which you base your conclusion against the free market is: • Governme.....
» 30/08/2011 12:35:46 PM Interesting article Michael. However your article itself contains a number of errors. Th.....
» 26/08/2011 4:18:59 PM The point is, what we are here witnessing the statists exhibit is an irrational belief sys.....
» 26/08/2011 3:43:14 PM Yes the issue is emblematic of the anti-human attitudes in the environmental movement......
» 25/08/2011 9:59:16 PM Mac If economics is not a science, and you’re not interested in economic theory, then how .....
» 25/08/2011 9:17:44 AM Chris It’s not about personality, it’s about whether statements are demonstrably false, i.....
» 24/08/2011 7:39:19 PM http://mises.org/daily/5570/First-in-Line-for-New-Money Chris, this article gives a good .....
» 24/08/2011 6:48:05 PM Arjay "I don't accept that you have proven otherwise." Why not? I have shown w.....
» 23/08/2011 10:58:51 PM Formersnag, unfortunately the reality of the situation is, it doesn't matter whether you d.....
» 23/08/2011 10:47:19 PM Poirot So it's better for them to be unemployed on a lower income, than gainfully employed.....
» 23/08/2011 10:36:25 PM I found the questions nosy and impudent. These are the people who privacy legislation, and.....
» 23/08/2011 9:53:15 PM "Obama won there in 2008 with 56 per cent of the vote" And what percent was tha.....
» 23/08/2011 9:01:00 PM Chris There is no onus on me to agree with you unless what you say is true and sensible. I.....
» 22/08/2011 11:19:42 PM Yes I tend to agree with donkeygod. It's drawing a long bow to say that states evolve fr.....
» 22/08/2011 9:13:54 PM Got that? Voluntary and mutually beneficial transactions that feed, clothe and shelter the.....
» 22/08/2011 9:07:43 PM But presumably the Fed’s trillion-dollar handouts to banks, big corporation and foreign go.....
» 22/08/2011 9:02:33 PM Since the decline of the West is so much the result of the advice of professional Keynesia.....
» 21/08/2011 11:00:47 AM I think he can win - but what a difference it would make! America's troops withdrawn to w.....
» 21/08/2011 10:33:56 AM No response, Arjay? Does that mean you concede what I was contending for, namely, that an .....
» 21/08/2011 10:11:24 AM imajulianutter, Arjay While ever governments have or can grant a monopoly license to print.....
» 19/08/2011 1:44:41 PM Another Keynesian urging government to "stimulate" the economy by taking money i.....
» 17/08/2011 5:30:23 PM There is no question that the whole Fed thing is a giant scam. The issue is whether all .....
» 16/08/2011 4:28:32 AM Considering the enormous damage that inflation does, not just to the whole structure of th.....
» 16/08/2011 4:26:17 AM "Govts will do the right thing by us Peter if we have a proper Constitution that limi.....
» 16/08/2011 4:09:14 AM Jonathon A good analysis of the end result that must come of the Santa Claus economics of .....
» 15/08/2011 9:36:04 PM "The basic question is,who should own the increases in your productivity? Private ban.....
» 15/08/2011 5:38:16 PM (cont.) “As far as truck drivers are concerned - at what stage did we know they were to b.....
» 15/08/2011 5:36:26 PM Thus the entire argument for government education is based on fallacies, or errors, that t.....
» 15/08/2011 5:34:48 PM Baygon “her criticism of government is not about Government providing education but rathe.....
» 15/08/2011 3:52:57 PM Hazza Your post comprises only misrepresentation, irrelevance, spiteful personal argument,.....
» 15/08/2011 11:42:07 AM Martha’s article is so riddled with fallacies, so dripping with hypocrisy, that it’s hard .....
» 15/08/2011 10:36:18 AM I agree with you as to the evils of the status quo of money, credit and banking,- I've don.....
» 14/08/2011 8:43:49 PM "Why is it necessary to create new money? Ans.For increases in population and product.....
» 14/08/2011 8:07:43 PM As for checks and balances, the executive chiefs and the legislature’s controllers are all.....
» 14/08/2011 8:05:58 PM Maxat “The theory which insists that majority opinion is not a moral value explains the di.....
» 14/08/2011 8:01:57 PM Maxat “The theory which insists that majority opinion is not a moral value explains the di.....
» 13/08/2011 11:08:41 PM Arjay, can you leave out the personal argument. I'm not obfuscating, perverting, etc. I .....
» 13/08/2011 10:07:31 PM "Would it not be better that the US govt create this money from nothing and the tax p.....
» 13/08/2011 9:53:52 PM 1 "The derivatives are toxic because that are not based on real productivty or assets.....
» 13/08/2011 7:32:59 PM Arjay 1. "The US sold toxic derivatives". Why were they toxic? What made them.....
» 12/08/2011 11:01:32 PM JP I don’t know about an “absolute” moral standard, but a universal and irrefutable moral .....
» 12/08/2011 10:55:36 PM Max that is well said. However you have not taken your conclusion as far as your reasoning.....
» 11/08/2011 2:39:40 PM The rioters are just doing what government does all the time - helping themselves to other.....
» 11/08/2011 2:31:56 PM “Resolution of the crisis must include putting an end to the sort of Ponzi and related sch.....
» 9/08/2011 3:05:56 PM I haven't seen the reports, but I imagine that the value of imported reggae-making capacit.....
» 8/08/2011 6:24:25 PM Ozandy "Will the extreme capitalist acknowledge the massive public bailouts ...".....
» 5/08/2011 8:48:59 PM Bravo Jon J. The nerve of an advocate of the modern selling of indulgences, preaching agai.....
» 5/08/2011 1:58:26 PM “Such dependency is no doubt but a byproduct of the dominant globalised economic model tha.....
» 5/08/2011 1:41:11 PM The author misses a critical distinction which makes the whole of his argument invalid. .....
» 29/07/2011 11:19:08 AM All people tend to prefer satisfaction of a given desire sooner than later, while delayed .....
» 29/07/2011 11:17:43 AM “For most large companies, CSR remains in the realm of public relations propaganda.” That’.....
» 28/07/2011 8:55:14 PM All conceivable arguments for government schooling are refuted here: http://mises.org/jour.....
» 26/07/2011 3:00:46 PM Well said, Tombee. * * * The sheer illogic of the article just defies belief. Just be.....
» 25/07/2011 2:50:42 PM Jon J LOL. Like your style.....
» 26/06/2011 10:45:27 PM Men have enjoyed looking at the beauty of girls and women since before people were people;.....
» 26/06/2011 10:26:03 PM “Women in modern consumer society use the same value system as men. That means that everyt.....
» 26/06/2011 8:24:41 PM Pelican Yes, that’s it in a nutshell. The basic value is freedom, not equality per se. J.....
» 26/06/2011 9:53:07 AM “I think that your fundamental argument, that difference equals inequality, is deeply flaw.....
» 25/06/2011 7:53:41 PM *How* would you establish that "men's" and "women's" work is equal in .....
» 25/06/2011 7:49:05 PM (cont.) It is precisely the tendency of employers to seek profit that guarantees that wome.....
» 25/06/2011 7:45:44 PM Jennifer Just because women are not represented in equal proportions to men in law or any.....
» 24/06/2011 10:09:18 PM What a great idea. It could be funded by a special super-tax on all those who voted Labor .....
» 24/06/2011 10:04:24 PM sonofgloin Was it Vincent Serventy? He had a show, I think it was called Nature Walkabout,.....
» 24/06/2011 6:54:54 PM I asked you first. Are you honestly arguing that there is no significance in the differe.....
» 24/06/2011 3:31:57 PM "No one has yet come up with a satisfactory explanation of why in our culture sexual .....
» 23/06/2011 10:25:57 AM “Women are grossly under-represented at the higher levels of the Australian legal professi.....
» 17/06/2011 11:02:19 PM I personally don't mind people bragging all that much, so long as it's true. If they are p.....
» 17/06/2011 2:24:11 PM "Many of these "sex-specific violations are sexual and reproductive" includ.....
» 7/06/2011 9:50:54 AM Very interesting article. “The market knows the price of everything, but does it know th.....
» 6/06/2011 1:15:53 PM Similarly, your characterization of a coercive state monopoly that confiscates, under thre.....
» 6/06/2011 1:13:52 PM Looks like you’re in favour of a most expansive definition of who requires incarceration a.....
» 5/06/2011 5:57:03 PM Interesting post. Remember that the critical difference between getting something done by.....
» 2/06/2011 12:30:26 PM Crackcup If we put aside the personal argument all we have is this: " I will NOT desi.....
» 1/06/2011 2:38:40 PM csteele I point out one set of false beliefs, you lie that you answered my questions when .....
» 1/06/2011 2:27:47 PM Crackcup "...blinded as are many by the almighty dollar!" It's you who's blinde.....
» 1/06/2011 2:10:59 PM Notice how every time the interventionists' advocating aggressive violence as a means to a.....
» 31/05/2011 4:57:25 PM “by capital I mean that which is invested and reinvested, ad nauseam, in hopes of perpetua.....
» 31/05/2011 4:33:54 PM Crackcup You are a co-conspirator for not paying for those animals to be slaughtered as yo.....
» 31/05/2011 2:37:55 PM The whole purpose of theory is to explain and predict reality. So if you had entertained h.....
» 31/05/2011 11:54:48 AM What is making it difficult for Obama is the fact that he *believes* all the ideas that ar.....
» 30/05/2011 11:08:29 PM (cont.) For example, it's no use blaming the military-industrial corporation for the act.....
» 30/05/2011 10:58:24 PM Yes I think PaulL's analysis is right, although the problem of unprincipled pork-barrellin.....
» 30/05/2011 10:28:02 PM Wow. What a mess - of every kind! You didn't actually say where the flow is issuing from......
» 30/05/2011 9:58:10 PM Fresh from evading my questions proving the hypocrisy of his preaching, csteele rushes int.....
» 30/05/2011 6:32:44 PM Belly "But every car running on petrol or its like puts more in the air than I save. .....
» 30/05/2011 11:40:37 AM Running throughout Jocelyn’s article is the assumption that the reason for the difference .....
» 30/05/2011 11:38:23 AM spindoc LOL, good one......
» 30/05/2011 9:41:19 AM Ho Hum "Barack Obama has definitely been a disappointment. But does anyone think that.....
» 30/05/2011 9:30:39 AM "If we can find $11 billion dollars in fossil fuel rebates for the mining industry th.....
» 29/05/2011 9:00:26 PM csteele The community can provide the solar rebate all by themselves, without the need for.....
» 29/05/2011 7:47:36 PM Squeers I admit I can’t understand what you’re saying, but it seems to show a confusion ab.....
» 29/05/2011 3:20:41 PM I think one of the reasons pornography is thought of as degrading is because God, or natur.....
» 29/05/2011 3:09:32 PM Your idea that we can get goods and services cheaper by getting government to provide them.....
» 29/05/2011 3:06:03 PM a) Your ethical argument fails to make out a justification for the unprovoked aggression y.....
» 29/05/2011 3:00:13 PM Hazza The logic of your argument still depends on my personality, which is why you can’t .....
» 29/05/2011 1:22:03 PM I agree with Squeers. The poverty of the poor is caused by the richness of the rich. What .....
» 27/05/2011 12:38:33 PM (cont.) “Would that [parliamentarians] had other incentives than just personal profit.” I.....
» 27/05/2011 12:29:56 PM If not, how are the voting public or their official delegates to *know* how best to combin.....
» 27/05/2011 12:25:34 PM “How then to reduce the need for large families? … By … hands-on and targeted aid programs.....
» 27/05/2011 12:19:51 PM Saltpetre I didn’t contend that “lax government regulation” caused the GFC; but government.....
» 25/05/2011 6:39:26 PM CofaB "all porn exploits and degrades women (ALL women)" I can't understand th.....
» 25/05/2011 6:06:56 PM Hazza 1. “The other measures simply ensure quality of live to existing families and chil.....
» 25/05/2011 6:05:56 PM b) Please answer: if the government, following your line of reasoning, had passed a law to.....
» 25/05/2011 6:02:38 PM Be honest. What would it take to persuade you that a) these market were highly regulated b.....
» 25/05/2011 6:01:54 PM wallumi You need to make your argument stand on its merits, not on my supposed personal pr.....
» 24/05/2011 3:57:21 PM 4. take into account what happens if government doesn’t do what you want with the powers y.....
» 24/05/2011 3:56:17 PM (cont.) Grim Before you assert that governments are more representative of people than the.....
» 24/05/2011 12:17:29 PM No-one has shown how government will be able to conserve resources any better considering .....
» 23/05/2011 8:50:26 PM Everyone likes it if the prices of the things he wants to buy are lower and the things he .....
» 23/05/2011 10:58:32 AM Ludwig So you speak for everyone who disagrees with you? Okay then, I speak for you, how.....
» 23/05/2011 10:57:30 AM Why should anyone now be forced to forego the pleasure, say, of having a family, to satisf.....
» 23/05/2011 10:56:53 AM 2 It’s true that the private owner may err in evaluating present versus future wants, or v.....
» 23/05/2011 10:56:12 AM All If you’re not suggesting a policy response, then no issue arises. People can just do w.....
» 22/05/2011 3:07:32 PM WAU You are only entitled to what people are willing to pay you for your product. If you .....
» 22/05/2011 12:26:12 AM Quantumleap Is that your answer to what policies you are in favour of? Wallumi “I am not.....
» 21/05/2011 10:19:13 PM Yes they are bored and curious, poor things. I'm not suggesting they're not in love mind y.....
» 21/05/2011 10:06:08 PM wallumi So you are not in favour of any policy on population?.....
» 21/05/2011 10:00:33 PM Hazza If all that is done, what specific difference will it make? 1- Why “except materni.....
» 21/05/2011 9:24:25 PM The other English sexual vocabulary – from Latin and French – is clinical, sterile: penis,.....
» 21/05/2011 9:22:02 PM Suzieonline Good question. I think you have to distinguish between religion meaning Christ.....
» 21/05/2011 8:35:54 PM Hazza, Squeers, Shockadelic, Saltpetre, Grim, Quantumleap, wallumi So what is it you want.....
» 21/05/2011 12:43:42 PM weareunique gives a good example of the economic illiteracy underlying support for food se.....
» 20/05/2011 9:45:44 PM Squeers Still under the false impression that your desire to play on the internet is more .....
» 20/05/2011 9:44:40 PM Looks like the usual anti-freedom, anti-human parrots are out in a veritable squawking flo.....
» 20/05/2011 1:25:22 PM "agricultural ministers now have "food security" somewhere in their title.......
» 20/05/2011 10:18:43 AM No way! True to the interventionist mindset, they wrongly externalize the blame to the mar.....
» 20/05/2011 10:16:47 AM The problem as cast is that foreign governments might restrict Australia’s food imports. S.....
» 17/05/2011 10:41:38 PM suzieonline I'm merely pointing out that you are either mistaken or confused in claiming t.....
» 17/05/2011 8:37:22 PM Tristan I find what you say to be so confused and illogical. You haven’t established that.....
» 17/05/2011 4:43:53 PM You’re trying to have a bet each way. If a worker has superannuation then he is a capitali.....
» 17/05/2011 1:53:51 PM I think you would have no difficulty recognizing the violence and abuse involved if a Musl.....
» 17/05/2011 1:40:11 PM Tristan "Agreed the system is imperfect and not always fair - but what to replace it .....
» 16/05/2011 6:06:27 PM Jewely Yes fair enough. I thought he was protesting against DoCS, i.e. the child protec.....
» 16/05/2011 4:15:15 PM “Why should taxpayers have to bear the burden of another's failure to live up to their res.....
» 16/05/2011 4:14:12 PM Pelican Are you in favour of policies of compulsory child support, compulsory state indoct.....
» 16/05/2011 12:17:32 PM Peter Hume > You are becoming quite obsessive … Personal argument, ho hum. > …you.....
» 16/05/2011 11:37:18 AM Shadow Minister I also respect the right of free speech, but that doesn't include a right.....
» 14/05/2011 10:41:41 PM Pelican "And exposure of various sects as regards personal imprisonment, then there w.....
» 14/05/2011 10:33:04 PM Suzieonline "I have no sympathy for people who threaten or commit violence at all.&qu.....
» 13/05/2011 10:18:22 AM "Go figgur." Maybe they figure, quite reasonably, that the gumment don't have t.....
» 12/05/2011 10:58:36 AM Herbert I have asked countless proponents of AWG and the answer to your questions always b.....
» 12/05/2011 9:10:18 AM The problem with the article is that the author has not given any reason why anyone should.....
» 11/05/2011 10:29:45 PM • a belief in a final stasis (Paradise/sustainability) in which the economic problems of n.....
» 11/05/2011 10:26:13 PM Firstly all your critique of skepticism ASSUMES that the warmists have made their case but.....
» 11/05/2011 10:25:42 PM You said: “I guess, at the of the day, I’m just not conspiracy-minded enough to believe th.....
» 11/05/2011 10:23:48 PM AJ I don’t know how else to compendiously refer to those who believe we face a grave probl.....
» 11/05/2011 5:08:08 PM It is important to understand that without the unequal valuations that people place on the.....
» 11/05/2011 5:05:23 PM (Thus values are *ordinal* (1st, 2nd, 3rd), not cardinal (1, 2, 3). They cannot be weighed.....
» 11/05/2011 5:03:09 PM Banjo If you buy a carton of milk for a dollar, it means you value the milk more than the .....
» 9/05/2011 3:49:08 PM sauropod "But that's an argument for fixing marriage registration, laws on de facto c.....
» 9/05/2011 3:44:08 PM bonmot Well why don't you tell us what you think the problem is, and how you know, and wha.....
» 9/05/2011 2:34:23 PM bonmot the facile dishonesty constituted by asking you to provide reason and evidence for .....
» 9/05/2011 2:08:28 PM "Also nicely stated there: "Humanitarian relief efforts and charitable causes to.....
» 9/05/2011 11:28:38 AM "...there would have been dire consequences in the longer term for the psychological .....
» 9/05/2011 10:45:47 AM Banjo I don't understand what point you are trying to make......
» 9/05/2011 10:39:31 AM Poirot You haven't answered the question, and you are adopting the same intellectual metho.....
» 9/05/2011 10:21:38 AM Bonmot is trying to have a bet each way. No it’s not catastrophic. It’s only going to ma.....
» 8/05/2011 10:07:05 PM Pelican You're in favour of policy to enforce child support, right? Even against someone w.....
» 8/05/2011 10:05:58 PM Squeers > I think your synopsis of my posts is exaggerated and unfair It quotes you, .....
» 8/05/2011 10:49:12 AM Squeers Our argument so far looks something like this: You: “Our current lifestyle is gr.....
» 8/05/2011 10:16:47 AM "Hey Peter, no I don’t want clients or prostitutes in any trouble or taking up any co.....
» 8/05/2011 10:01:40 AM "We should be shrinking our economies..." Shrinking our economies by means you .....
» 8/05/2011 1:26:33 AM AJ Your post assumes what is in issue from the outset. You say, correct me if I'm wrong, t.....
» 8/05/2011 12:48:39 AM Yes, it's not just the killing of animals that concerns me, but what about the killing of .....
» 7/05/2011 10:03:42 PM Pelican Spare me your dishonest misrepresentations (I supposedly can't accept one can marr.....
» 7/05/2011 9:10:42 PM Looks like it. Are you in favour of criminalising anyone for participating in prostitution.....
» 7/05/2011 5:15:21 PM Sustainability is also a problematic term because, just because a particular resource is e.....
» 7/05/2011 4:28:20 PM So you don't despise them, it's just that you think the fact their work is sexual proves t.....
» 7/05/2011 4:25:09 PM So in other words - no, you’re not willing to do voluntarily what you urge everyone else b.....
» 7/05/2011 3:40:17 PM “Who despises them?" In case you haven’t noticed, the interfering violent know-it-al.....
» 7/05/2011 12:18:51 PM "The least we can do is to turn off the light." What facile piety. So now we can.....
» 6/05/2011 9:38:20 PM AJ, ho hum, you are only proving yet again that the entire warmist argument consists of as.....
» 6/05/2011 9:27:31 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 6/05/2011 9:23:59 PM "Nobody, man or woman wants to marry a homeless beggar. Using extremes really means.......
» 6/05/2011 7:58:07 PM Hmm. Nothing but personal arguments, circularity and irrelevance – I suppose that’s your w.....
» 6/05/2011 12:42:08 PM (cont.) • which actively cause unemployment. You have no right to criticize unemployment u.....
» 6/05/2011 12:38:41 PM (cont.) If merely feeling lonely is to be subject to “emotional violence”, and this justif.....
» 6/05/2011 12:36:46 PM Jewely While ever you or CATW fail to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary transa.....
» 5/05/2011 3:56:33 PM Pelican I asked whether you support punishing anyone for prostitution. You replied: “I h.....
» 5/05/2011 3:53:37 PM Pelican The fact that people *are* motivated by material consideration doesn’t mean they’r.....
» 5/05/2011 2:12:36 PM Had a sick horse once. Parted its hair and changed its name to Pal......
» 5/05/2011 12:11:27 PM When this is pointed out, instead of saying “Oh sorry, you’re right, that was a silly thin.....
» 5/05/2011 12:05:44 PM Pelican >“I have already said NO with the exception that you cannot imprison one withou.....
» 4/05/2011 4:44:28 PM "really the whole economic model that needs turning on its head." You can do th.....
» 4/05/2011 4:26:36 PM ozideas That's your idea of sound reasoning is it?.....
» 4/05/2011 4:22:53 PM "Of course I am opposed in principle to "might is right", however we have t.....
» 4/05/2011 3:23:56 PM "so in that case, what grandma does is of vital importance" Yes that's right in.....
» 4/05/2011 9:51:36 AM Good point. Maybe some more meddling from government will make us all richer?.....
» 3/05/2011 7:10:30 PM Dane Then there was the one about the South African miner who lost a leg in a mining accid.....
» 3/05/2011 4:22:01 PM This is not about preventing “violence”, which a) is already illegal, and b) does not des.....
» 3/05/2011 4:16:02 PM (cont.) That’s just caring and sharing presumably. It would only be necessary for Tristan .....
» 3/05/2011 4:14:24 PM It is the grossest moral and intellectual blunder to confuse consensual and non-consensual.....
» 2/05/2011 1:47:51 PM Freya, the clients of prostitutes are no more "buying" them, than the clients of.....
» 2/05/2011 1:28:55 PM No it doesn't go to show how advanced in knolwedge stone age man was, but it does raise th.....
» 2/05/2011 12:35:45 PM Yabby Yes of course and how absurd is the intellectual method of the western feminists who.....
» 2/05/2011 12:20:29 PM “I sincerely hope that Peter Hume is not defining marriage as, "...women accepting ma.....
» 2/05/2011 11:17:57 AM (cont.) But more importantly, marriage in the absence of prostitution would tend to carte.....
» 2/05/2011 11:17:22 AM The author does not define prostitution, which is critical because women accepting materia.....
» 2/05/2011 10:22:19 AM Morganzola There is nothing libertarian about arguing for the governmental registration of.....
» 1/05/2011 7:42:42 PM So, no response to my reasoning, just personalising the issues with a bit of mind-reading .....
» 1/05/2011 5:00:34 PM Sauropod But it is about the details, because they show that gay “marriages” are in no wor.....
» 1/05/2011 12:26:40 PM Yes it's fascinating how they were so far ahead of everyone else. Also bronze at that ti.....
» 1/05/2011 11:11:43 AM Sauropod As I have shown, it's not about "registration and recognition". Gay &qu.....
» 1/05/2011 10:38:16 AM Morganzola "One reason for men to use contraception is when women refuse to have sex.....
» 30/04/2011 7:47:52 PM There's no reason for men to use contraception, because if the woman gets pregnant, the ma.....
» 30/04/2011 7:38:39 PM Yes Eratosthenes is most gob-smacking for sheer cleverness. The fact that anyone thought h.....
» 30/04/2011 6:57:58 PM "What 'problem' would that be then Yabby?" Having children that they aren't wil.....
» 30/04/2011 2:15:50 PM The critical furphies underlying the arguments for governmental registration of homosexual.....
» 29/04/2011 3:50:46 PM Yes I think we should have competing monies. People would obviously prefer market-supplied.....
» 29/04/2011 1:16:57 PM Funny article Tess and I see you couldn't contain yourself but had to be spilling over int.....
» 29/04/2011 12:04:27 PM Good article, Sukrit. Yes no joke there are lots people on both the left and right wings o.....
» 29/04/2011 11:08:15 AM Look there's no doubt that there's a lot of sh!tholes in the world, that many peoples were.....
» 27/04/2011 7:47:39 PM LEGO It’s you who are advocating violent anarchy, as between states. And within states, .....
» 26/04/2011 1:02:00 PM LEGO My views only seem contradictory if you take the state as the starting point of what .....
» 25/04/2011 6:53:23 PM Smacks of white man's burden to me. Yes, anyone has a right to use force to stop anyone .....
» 24/04/2011 1:55:44 PM So does that mean the British descended nations have a general right to make war against o.....
» 23/04/2011 11:44:46 PM Saoirse Your question on non-renewables is based on so many fallacies that we grow tired .....
» 23/04/2011 8:12:21 PM The author argues that “economic rent” is publicly generated. But he doesn’t define this k.....
» 23/04/2011 2:25:57 PM Virtually all states also have long histories of aggression, including Spain, France, Engl.....
» 23/04/2011 10:42:53 AM Lexi Those who approve the principle of wealth redistributions based on political favourit.....
» 23/04/2011 10:10:25 AM Lego You appear to have your centuries mixed up but in any event thanks for confirming tha.....
» 22/04/2011 11:33:34 PM Collective solutions are unstable and unresilent for the same reasons that monocultures ar.....
» 22/04/2011 7:24:25 PM Because it is quicker, fairer and much cheaper than the dilatory, expensive and highly uns.....
» 22/04/2011 7:22:42 PM The difference between your difficulties and mine are that you have no objection *in princ.....
» 20/04/2011 10:33:49 PM … unfounded. A general right to *initiate aggression* would result in chaos, and *this is .....
» 20/04/2011 10:28:22 PM ...understood by body language, eyes, voice tone etc. Are they rape therefore? No. In la.....
» 20/04/2011 10:23:54 PM “The question is, where is the line drawn?” As I said, *in general* - i.e. between compet.....
» 19/04/2011 9:36:17 PM Pericles More evasion. Ho hum. I don’t know why you bother. Perhaps your sarcasm and disho.....
» 19/04/2011 4:44:14 PM Wm Trevor Thanks for that, yes I agree. I think the only way would consist of: "1......
» 19/04/2011 4:15:22 PM You guys are sawing sawdust. Pericles “it is not possible to define those limits [ie of .....
» 19/04/2011 12:50:44 PM Bugsy Thank you. So I will proceed on the basis that economic science is possible, and con.....
» 19/04/2011 7:37:02 AM My opponents are reduced to arguing that humans might be immortal, or that observations mi.....
» 18/04/2011 7:49:06 AM It is also a false dichotomy to argue that something is *not* science because it *is* phil.....
» 18/04/2011 7:46:36 AM “As for your No. 2s I see you mean A to be whatever you want it to be and B can be whateve.....
» 18/04/2011 7:45:36 AM If the observed data don’t agree with the theorem, we *always* conclude the observed data .....
» 18/04/2011 7:43:34 AM Guys, can you pare me your attributions of bad faith and let's concentrate on the substant.....
» 17/04/2011 10:48:20 PM Yet the arguments for taxation are exactly the same as those for slavery, because what is .....
» 17/04/2011 10:42:11 PM I don’t agree that we “entrust” to the state its claimed monopoly of initiating aggression.....
» 17/04/2011 10:34:11 PM 1. “when is a sexual act "non-consensual" so as to require intervention by &quo.....
» 17/04/2011 12:27:02 AM Bugsy I got (and amended) the definition from Pelican. Also see: http://dictionary.refere.....
» 16/04/2011 10:37:41 PM Still doesn't give any reason why any of it should be government-funded. So you can force .....
» 16/04/2011 10:36:39 PM The fact that we don't know where the next medical research breakthrough will come from, i.....
» 16/04/2011 9:53:37 PM Why should the *probabilistic* statements of biological science be considered more scienti.....
» 16/04/2011 9:51:19 PM So I don’t see how anyone can deny that they are economic laws. Why not? Give me one examp.....
» 16/04/2011 9:49:55 PM All You are assuming that 1. science must mean *empirical* science, ie testing of empiric.....
» 16/04/2011 8:19:46 PM The baby's aunt was blowing raspberries on his belly. Then she put her mouth fully over hi.....
» 16/04/2011 8:06:47 PM (cont.) But the officials don’t advise them of this option on the ground that they are abu.....
» 16/04/2011 8:03:24 PM The statutory age of consent didn’t exist until the nineteenth century. In the nineteenth .....
» 16/04/2011 7:57:17 PM NQD The only way that having-a-baby could be “treated so as to have equal status” with not.....
» 16/04/2011 12:34:58 AM “It is your neoliberal "policy" that's entrenched in "ideology"! Acco.....
» 16/04/2011 12:26:43 AM Squeers “Are you arguing for perpetual motion (... consumption?” No. Unlike the neoliber.....
» 15/04/2011 5:24:37 PM Peter; It's funny your characterisation of Marxism … power. Tristan Why is that funny? .....
» 15/04/2011 4:32:09 PM Not so fast. You answer my questions first. 1. how the sexes could be treated equally in r.....
» 15/04/2011 1:44:16 PM Ludwig Obviously what concerns you is that government funding of science is being used to .....
» 15/04/2011 12:51:02 PM Is discriminating against children okay in terms of denying them the vote and other politi.....
» 15/04/2011 12:10:55 PM mac “My statement that economics is 'not a science' …[is] based on my acquaintance with ec.....
» 15/04/2011 10:58:48 AM Pelican and spindoc what if I can point to universally valid propositions of human action?.....
» 14/04/2011 9:41:28 PM >4. That doesn't apply to every single private relationship and no I won't define which.....
» 14/04/2011 9:35:52 PM > The legislators are equal before the law, because in theory, everyone has the right t.....
» 14/04/2011 2:12:11 PM Looks like a string of mispresentation and abuse to me. Which part is the actual definit.....
» 14/04/2011 1:08:13 PM Is there such a thing as economic science? Many people say there is not and cannot be su.....
» 14/04/2011 1:05:14 PM Pelican Has it ever occurred to you that the ascendancy of corporatism is *because of* the.....
» 14/04/2011 12:52:28 PM mac I have seen many people on OLO use the term "neo-liberalism" but no-one will.....
» 14/04/2011 12:47:31 PM The carbon tax is like the mediaeval selling of indulgences. It doesn't stop you sinning, .....
» 14/04/2011 12:30:22 PM You are not in position to “debate” anyone while the principles of logical thought continu.....
» 14/04/2011 11:00:15 AM Chris It's not a "rant", I show that you haven't defined liberalism even though .....
» 14/04/2011 9:55:13 AM Liberalism is sometimes used to denote a belief in liberty and freedom from coercion, whic.....
» 14/04/2011 1:10:33 AM “The environment” is not a value in its own right, over and above human interests. You don.....
» 14/04/2011 1:00:52 AM Ludwig "I’m striving for a balance between humanity and the environment and resource.....
» 13/04/2011 9:22:56 PM People who smack their children should be beaten into submission, handcuffed and locked in.....
» 13/04/2011 8:55:04 PM > and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. But.....
» 13/04/2011 8:50:48 PM Eyejaw I point out that what you are arguing is illogical and self-contradictory, and your.....
» 13/04/2011 10:28:51 AM "The first step towards successful policies for lowering carbon emissions is to accep.....
» 13/04/2011 9:34:07 AM NQD I’ll answer your questions but first I would like to define our terms because as you k.....
» 12/04/2011 3:14:29 PM Squeers What is "neoliberalism", pray? I had thought it was a species of liber.....
» 12/04/2011 2:48:51 PM NQD Your definition a) is not a definition. I’m asking what equality is, not what it inclu.....
» 12/04/2011 12:19:47 PM Curmudgeon Thank you. "For example, is CSIRO meant to act as an over-arching resear.....
» 12/04/2011 11:02:58 AM But Kellie, the state can do no wrong, remember? I find it amusing that you favour governm.....
» 12/04/2011 10:55:47 AM Ludwig >So how could it be done with true independence from government, or from the ves.....
» 12/04/2011 9:40:48 AM Science may be objective but the funding of it, and the purposes for which it is used, can.....
» 12/04/2011 8:45:38 AM Interesting. The Chinese opposition to the independence of Taiwan is surely no different.....
» 12/04/2011 8:37:24 AM NQD Please define equality?.....
» 11/04/2011 4:21:08 PM Jewely >"We need them to do their job which is to care and protect all children an.....
» 11/04/2011 4:15:26 PM Pericles "She finds herself in a position, unique in Australian political history, of.....
» 11/04/2011 3:07:19 PM >Enter the vibrator. Maines writes that "massage to orgasm of female patients was .....
» 11/04/2011 3:02:41 PM >Well a law saying that anyone who is pregnant can ultimately decide whether or not to .....
» 11/04/2011 1:14:51 PM >“Similarly, there is no cause for the removal of maternity leave, but possibly an argu.....
» 11/04/2011 1:12:19 PM NQD I’m not conflating the words "equal" and "identical". I’m saying I.....
» 10/04/2011 9:54:39 PM popnperish "What I mean by equal is having equal rights under the law. Obviously ther.....
» 10/04/2011 9:20:17 PM Saltpetre You are three steps away from a logically competent argument, for the following .....
» 10/04/2011 12:59:59 PM popnperish You haven't established that any policies are justified yet, because you haven'.....
» 10/04/2011 12:05:28 PM Truee (No need to shout.) Half of that was well said. The other half was precisely back-t.....
» 10/04/2011 11:56:45 AM eyejaw If we need to use force - law - to treat people unequally, in order to bring about .....
» 10/04/2011 10:13:06 AM Everyone has a basic human right to be able to live from the public purse at everyone else.....
» 10/04/2011 10:07:15 AM Tristan Thanks for that irrelevant rant based on the assumption that we can create wealth .....
» 10/04/2011 9:30:24 AM Squeers You’re still blowing hot and cold on the central question of whether anyone can l.....
» 9/04/2011 6:58:18 PM But since objectivity is possible otherwise Squeers wouldn’t be trying to use reason to co.....
» 9/04/2011 6:54:20 PM Squeers “I can’t believe that you want things spelled out.” I can’t believe that you thin.....
» 9/04/2011 6:02:00 PM Bonmot More name-calling, ho hum. In years of this debate, I haven’t yet seen any real-w.....
» 9/04/2011 12:22:37 PM bonmot You appear to be under the false impression that your name-calling is relevant to t.....
» 8/04/2011 9:32:34 PM Don't forget that DoCS has by far the worst standard of parental responsibility in the com.....
» 8/04/2011 8:07:37 PM Tristan I was interested to see you criticise the injustice caused to the poor under so-ca.....
» 7/04/2011 5:51:54 PM This is to do no more than recognise the insight that, after one dies, the world continues.....
» 7/04/2011 5:39:33 PM Poirot Yes it is rather fascinating, and that’s a good question. The issue goes to the v.....
» 6/04/2011 9:28:38 PM Squeers Your personal attack on me is irrelevant. Certainly doesn’t look like your takin.....
» 6/04/2011 4:46:58 PM I don't think it's legitimate to simply assume that democracy is the best form of governme.....
» 6/04/2011 12:09:34 PM (cont.) Isn’t it true that the reason you keep evading answering my question whether we ca.....
» 6/04/2011 12:06:11 PM Squeers It’s not that I’m misrepresenting you, it’s that what you’re saying is self-contra.....
» 6/04/2011 11:02:09 AM popnperish It is not “nihilistic” to assert the right of people, regardless of gender, to .....
» 5/04/2011 12:37:22 PM Squeers The problem is that, according to your theory, there’s no such thing as knowable o.....
» 5/04/2011 12:11:57 PM Got that real-world evidence of catastrophic man-made global warming there yet fellahs? Do.....
» 5/04/2011 10:47:41 AM Eyejaw The term sexist has lost its sting since feminists in the western world have demons.....
» 4/04/2011 5:42:02 PM "Why do we put up with a tax regime designed to strip so much from our tax base, to s.....
» 4/04/2011 5:18:10 PM (cont) “Scientific production is non-aspirational (except when it is openly politically al.....
» 4/04/2011 5:09:18 PM Squeers Well I think it’s unfair to say I’m prejudiced against anything you say when I hav.....
» 4/04/2011 2:50:15 PM >'Just consult our own opinion again in a circle?' >>That actually works quite w.....
» 4/04/2011 11:53:14 AM Thanks Pelican Squeers “Our social lives do not admit of controlled laboratory solutions”.....
» 4/04/2011 10:02:55 AM The economic policy of the Nazis was to leave industry in nominally private ownership, but.....
» 4/04/2011 9:43:27 AM Interesting article. I don’t buy the argument, or rather assumption, that the government.....
» 2/04/2011 11:31:51 PM Yes, that's all true. It depends whether one is talking about a 'classical liberal' societ.....
» 2/04/2011 7:51:54 PM ... Louis XIV never pretended to know what kind of light people can have in their own home.....
» 2/04/2011 7:47:04 PM PaulL It’s a very interesting question: in short, how to transition to a voluntary society.....
» 1/04/2011 7:24:33 PM Squeers By your own account, you are deluded if you believe your own theory. Or perhaps, l.....
» 1/04/2011 3:25:07 PM TBC My point being that, when it comes to one group using coercion to force others to obey.....
» 1/04/2011 1:49:29 PM "The most interesting aspect of Kate Mannix's article, is that she can see the social.....
» 1/04/2011 1:43:20 PM TBC "...those who 'believe' in anything as fanciful as the Catholic church need to be.....
» 31/03/2011 10:46:01 PM Since science does not supply value judgements, and governmental funding of science requir.....
» 31/03/2011 9:36:06 PM Rich2 1. Your asking someone to prove AGW is not happening has the onus of proof back-to-f.....
» 31/03/2011 9:27:41 PM Well I don't think it's the place of government to run television stations, universities o.....
» 31/03/2011 7:21:03 PM bonmot 1. A simple humiliating admission of defeat would do, but looks like the best expe.....
» 30/03/2011 11:33:19 AM The problem we face here is this: 1. the warmists' intellectual method is to assume somet.....
» 30/03/2011 9:54:54 AM I've seen the term 'neo-liberal' used in OLO a lot, but what does it actually mean? Does i.....
» 30/03/2011 9:36:09 AM If this is the best a professor of public policy can come up with, her position should be .....
» 29/03/2011 8:45:15 PM Jedimaster Your high academic learning should have taught you not to argue by way of - ass.....
» 29/03/2011 3:01:30 PM Jedimaster As you have done nothing but assume what is in issue and appeal to vested inter.....
» 29/03/2011 1:05:16 PM Jedimaster "And of course power companies are reluctant to take on renewables." .....
» 29/03/2011 11:28:29 AM Pericles Marriage is by definition an act of faith, namely, undertaking to be bound by the.....
» 29/03/2011 10:15:49 AM spindoc that is a great letter. The whole thing reminds me of the ancient Roman general .....
» 29/03/2011 9:36:15 AM Interesting article. However the author has not given any valid reason why government shou.....
» 28/03/2011 2:50:43 PM By contrast, the actual productive class who pay involuntarily for all government action h.....
» 28/03/2011 2:49:24 PM Jedimaster It is not lowering OLO to criticize and lampoon as unreasonable the pretensions.....
» 28/03/2011 11:21:18 AM Look the whole thing is just too ridiculous for words. The entire argument in favour of .....
» 26/03/2011 9:36:34 AM The entire case for AGW - shorthand for "The population of the world faces catastroph.....
» 23/03/2011 9:51:57 PM Hmm. You disagree that the purpose of human action is to satisfy human wants. So what they.....
» 23/03/2011 8:28:22 PM "We know the probable consequence of worldwide climate change." Yes? Go ahead, .....
» 23/03/2011 7:46:04 PM Squeers Well I'm glad you guys have decided that supposed AGW is not a catastrophe after a.....
» 23/03/2011 7:37:07 PM Squeers You seem to be missing the point that the purpose of human action in general, and .....
» 23/03/2011 6:50:23 PM Look I'm not the one asserting the need for any kind of policy on AGW. Those who assert it.....
» 23/03/2011 4:58:19 PM Pelican That’s fine as far as it applies to mere difference of opinion, but not where the.....
» 23/03/2011 9:30:36 AM Squeers Obviously it means humans. What else would you use “we” to mean? Ducks? Please st.....
» 23/03/2011 9:22:35 AM There's no question that climate change is real, the question is whether catastrophic man-.....
» 21/03/2011 7:29:23 PM bonmot Wow, mind-reading and personal argument – how clever and persuasive of you. Perhaps.....
» 21/03/2011 9:27:24 AM Yes, at least we can expect he will be deep-learned in the philosophy of his existential c.....
» 21/03/2011 8:39:04 AM Interesting article. Parliaments are indeed a relic of information-processing technology.....
» 20/03/2011 7:25:36 PM Who's "we"?.....
» 20/03/2011 9:39:01 AM Squeers So if only we could kill of a few thousand million people and live at a subsistenc.....
» 18/03/2011 8:35:24 PM "The New South Wales election will be a futile struggle with neither side prepared to.....
» 18/03/2011 4:13:19 PM Why should those who want to use land to produce housing or food have to pay for it, while.....
» 18/03/2011 8:51:03 AM A prostitute isn't selling "her body", she's selling services. The client has no.....
» 17/03/2011 7:59:38 PM OUG Unless you can answer the five questions I've asked, all you are proving is that peopl.....
» 16/03/2011 8:57:09 PM because EXACTLY THE SAME IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEMS - of knowledge and incentive - would face the.....
» 16/03/2011 8:48:14 PM If the excutive does it by copying the profitable route of a private bus service, there wi.....
» 16/03/2011 8:46:53 PM I define ‘productive activity’ to be activity intended to produce goods and services to sa.....
» 14/03/2011 1:44:17 PM Poirot It breaks out on exposure to extraordinary ridiculosity......
» 14/03/2011 10:54:15 AM paul walter Oh yeah, and so the way for a society to get rich is through socialism? BWAHAH.....
» 14/03/2011 10:43:42 AM If, in order to achieve equality, women need a whole raft of laws, policies, and penalties.....
» 13/03/2011 8:19:08 PM a597 It was that bloody global warming again......
» 13/03/2011 7:56:24 PM …of the same services at the same cost, without the additional cost going to profit. The.....
» 13/03/2011 7:54:35 PM …government policy – that’s why people did it! It enabled the more financially sophisticat.....
» 13/03/2011 7:49:34 PM 1. I’m not running an “all resources public” argument. I’m arguing that *any* resources h.....
» 13/03/2011 3:10:58 AM Your entire argument would only make sense if: • reality did not limit human action • majo.....
» 13/03/2011 3:09:15 AM “The majority principle is a matter of cultural conduct, while 'truth' in terms of 'correc.....
» 13/03/2011 3:05:46 AM As you are defending common ownership of capital resources, it is not “absurd” to identify.....
» 11/03/2011 6:37:44 PM That’s like saying, because people are affected by the need to obtain consent to sex, ther.....
» 8/03/2011 3:45:06 PM So before patriarchy came along, women didn't compete for men? Uh-huh? And how do you th.....
» 8/03/2011 3:38:51 PM Chris If they were not your words, I owe *you* an apology......
» 8/03/2011 3:35:54 PM diver dan "The collapse was a fracturing of the fault line at the point where the exp.....
» 8/03/2011 1:45:32 PM 3- In a complete privatisation - where there is no remaining governmental intervention fo.....
» 8/03/2011 1:43:55 PM 1- “The justification of a [private road on private land] ] is generally percieved as a r.....
» 8/03/2011 1:38:28 PM Hazza 0- I didn’t ignore direct democracy providing incentive and accountability – I denie.....
» 6/03/2011 9:31:48 PM 1. No. Private property doesn’t mean you get to use other people’s property for free. We’r.....
» 6/03/2011 9:27:00 PM *How* is a bureaucracy to perform these functions? Since, absent the incentive to avoid lo.....
» 6/03/2011 9:19:01 PM f) rigging it so that richer people can force poorer people to pay for their groceries, or.....
» 6/03/2011 9:18:16 PM Hazza The issue is voluntary versus coerced relations, rather than private versus public. .....
» 5/03/2011 8:45:47 PM The whole global warming religious hysteria makes me think we've disappeared down a time w.....
» 5/03/2011 5:56:10 PM Government by contrast has all the disadvantages of the original problem, with none of the.....
» 5/03/2011 5:52:03 PM "Rubbish. The costs remain the same for whichever body undertakes it." You have.....
» 5/03/2011 3:15:41 PM You complain about big business getting favours from government at the expense of the popu.....
» 5/03/2011 3:13:53 PM People are perfectly capable of insuring themselves. The reason they don't, is because the.....
» 5/03/2011 3:06:29 PM PW Even if the price is less than the costs, so what? If I sell something for less than it.....
» 5/03/2011 2:30:32 PM thinker2 You're still not getting to square one. Physically attacking people, or threate.....
» 3/03/2011 9:05:12 PM So Australians should be forced to buy more expensive goods, so that they don't buy the sa.....
» 3/03/2011 7:54:06 PM You keep on conjuring the spectre of starving masses with their noses pressed against the .....
» 3/03/2011 7:47:45 PM Divergence I don’t think you’re addressing the issues. “Market failure: I was thinking o.....
» 2/03/2011 7:56:39 PM Orthodox theory is obviously wrong, because since the Fed was founded, the US dollar has l.....
» 2/03/2011 7:50:26 PM Hazza In those days government itself was privately owned, so this only takes us back to t.....
» 1/03/2011 5:20:41 PM BTW, you have taken no account whatsoever of government failures. I have taken account o.....
» 1/03/2011 5:15:51 PM ...where the factors of production are now, and where and how the masses *want* them to be.....
» 1/03/2011 5:13:27 PM Thinker2 has only cited examples concerning the environment which are owned and controlled.....
» 28/02/2011 11:05:05 AM Back to the Middle East, and the issue as between democracy and freedom, here's a good art.....
» 28/02/2011 9:57:12 AM For example, feudal society was very highly regulated – by the state. Competition from mor.....
» 28/02/2011 9:56:16 AM “I'm not so much hoping for more Gov't Peter, but better Govt.” Good luck with that, thi.....
» 26/02/2011 2:45:05 PM Thinker2 You reply has advanced the argument any further than where I left it. Governmen.....
» 26/02/2011 2:40:51 PM Hazza, Loudmouth, thinker2 None of you has joined issue yet. Hazza’s post is a veritabl.....
» 24/02/2011 6:10:47 PM Sorry, in my last post that should read: "It is a complete furphy to identify the pop.....
» 24/02/2011 5:56:41 PM >Peter I don't suppose you have been paying attention to the content matter discussed s.....
» 24/02/2011 11:50:14 AM Just as government inflation of the money supply causes financial bubbles, government infl.....
» 24/02/2011 8:30:42 AM Arjay of course never contributes to the despicable institution of capital by buying anyth.....
» 24/02/2011 8:21:26 AM The state is not an institution that is made for being nice, or caring, or social justice,.....
» 23/02/2011 11:45:12 PM "The capacity to mobilise power should not direct our society." Well that rules.....
» 23/02/2011 9:59:07 PM Pelican “Ideally … a system should seek the best balance of collective and individual goo.....
» 23/02/2011 9:22:03 PM Thinker 2 I am glad that you understand that on one level coercive socialism is not better.....
» 22/02/2011 3:23:20 PM thinker2 I didn't watch it, but the problem with your general criticism of capitalism is t.....
» 20/02/2011 8:29:54 PM Squeers Yes bravo for a well-aimed, and well-deserved, kick up Malcolm's backside. If a.....
» 20/02/2011 7:54:39 PM Well I’m glad we’re agreed on the desirability of a voluntary society. This means that any.....
» 20/02/2011 12:43:11 PM thinker2 What is the alternative to the private ownership of the means of production? All.....
» 20/02/2011 11:42:50 AM “In political theory…” It’s about a voluntary society. Politics is about control of the .....
» 20/02/2011 8:45:10 AM The question should not be “What do people want?” because if they want something that’s un.....
» 19/02/2011 8:33:45 PM Squeers As I have shown your remarks were not thoughtful, they were ignorant and hypocriti.....
» 19/02/2011 4:09:17 PM Squeers Unfortunately, appeal to absent authority and mind-reading are no advance on your .....
» 19/02/2011 8:16:04 AM ...This prepresupposes exactly the same of policy as religion presupposes of God. Tanver’s.....
» 19/02/2011 8:11:38 AM Squeers has disqualified himself from participating in the discussion by his earlier asser.....
» 18/02/2011 9:22:54 AM So racial discrimination is okay, as long as you're the ones doing it, right?.....
» 16/02/2011 10:57:59 PM thinker 2 You still haven't defined excess profit on which your entire argument depends. Y.....
» 15/02/2011 3:19:23 PM All the political issues rest on underlying issues of economics, which in turn rest on und.....
» 15/02/2011 12:17:43 PM The problem with B. is that the consumers of government have even less protection because:.....
» 15/02/2011 12:16:44 PM “I don't make any economic assumptions.” Yes you do. Any human action involving choice amo.....
» 15/02/2011 11:32:31 AM >“It should serve to remind us that the real struggle, in the Middle East as in the wid.....
» 15/02/2011 10:33:59 AM Do they need to have a policy on it? Why can't they just not have a policy? Abolish all la.....
» 15/02/2011 9:39:29 AM The question of corruption goes only to formal legality. For example, if you have a busi.....
» 14/02/2011 1:05:47 PM Similarly, you assume that there is an irreconcilable conflict of interest between partici.....
» 14/02/2011 1:05:23 PM Thinker2 Sorry; busy. No it’s not a rant. But it’s a double standard based on logical .....
» 14/02/2011 10:44:16 AM What a pity Philip doesn't have the power to 'smash this sorry scheme of things entire and.....
» 12/02/2011 10:56:48 AM "The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not .....
» 11/02/2011 8:30:03 AM This is just a re-run of the superstitious belief that adverse natural events are caused b.....
» 9/02/2011 7:39:54 PM rehctub How is it any different if you take up the salesman's time and buy from a real sto.....
» 9/02/2011 7:37:21 PM thinker 2 You haven't answered either question and are just ventilating irrational prejudi.....
» 9/02/2011 9:47:51 AM The problem isn’t that we’re getting nowhere. It’s that I am consistently logically dispro.....
» 9/02/2011 8:55:46 AM wobbles Well that's really argument by assuming what's in issue and name-calling. If the.....
» 8/02/2011 3:21:09 PM > “Debt is the price of money. >>No it’s not. Interest is the price of money. De.....
» 8/02/2011 10:14:14 AM More religious liturgy from the high priests of Pharaoh. Government is like a God; our ove.....
» 8/02/2011 9:28:38 AM Also, if the tokens functioned to buy future goods in the present, then WHAT POWER ON EART.....
» 8/02/2011 9:24:54 AM thinker2 Define excessive profit. What are you saying should be the connection, if any, .....
» 8/02/2011 9:20:41 AM “The reasoning does apply to any area of society ...” So in theory, there’s no reason why.....
» 7/02/2011 3:10:16 PM "Remember too, that the right-wing stink-tanks that Des associates with were all very.....
» 7/02/2011 11:19:53 AM Yes Graham, hang in there, don't let the bastards grind you down, keep up the good work, a.....
» 7/02/2011 11:12:53 AM 5. Yes, the question is, *who* is to do the valuation – the owners of the property, or so.....
» 7/02/2011 11:12:22 AM Thank you. I submit my disproof as follows. 1. “Income” means *net* income, after costs.....
» 7/02/2011 9:51:39 AM Be aware of the word public school in Australia. Here it means state religion indoctrinati.....
» 6/02/2011 9:09:42 PM “Peter,you cannot separate productivity ,money supply and debt.” Yes you can. They *can b.....
» 6/02/2011 6:43:55 PM You said you’d answer my questions but you keep evading them. For the scientific method .....
» 6/02/2011 4:47:43 PM Arjay I agree with a lot of your analysis about the corruption of money and banking. We .....
» 6/02/2011 9:07:59 AM Arjay You shown that government control of the money supply is corrupt, that different pol.....
» 5/02/2011 10:38:40 PM There's not enough R&D- relative to what? How do you know? "...we give the R&D fun.....
» 4/02/2011 2:13:57 PM Thus there are three major classes of error in the belief that government economic interve.....
» 4/02/2011 9:12:22 AM It's obvious what the meaning of life is (but I'm not going to tell you)......
» 3/02/2011 2:28:49 PM Poirot “What purpose and motivation can an individual have outside of a human social const.....
» 3/02/2011 8:54:02 AM "Globalisation or the spread of an idea or product throughout the world affected huma.....
» 3/02/2011 8:40:06 AM Please answer this question: how else could it be? Are people automatons? “Who’s to say .....
» 3/02/2011 7:38:30 AM Oh Bravo! I feel you’ve joined issue at last. “We could not conceive of human beings who.....
» 2/02/2011 4:31:14 PM "I have downloaded your book, and will read the first chapter when i get some spare t.....
» 2/02/2011 2:36:30 PM “The proposal is a free market that decides where and how money is invested. The amount is.....
» 2/02/2011 2:35:49 PM Fickle Pickle Well you asked for my questions and promised to answer them, I asked them, y.....
» 2/02/2011 2:15:56 PM There are three problems with your last rejoinder. Firstly, human economic relations don'.....
» 2/02/2011 8:15:56 AM Not the whole tome, just the first part. It's in plain language......
» 1/02/2011 11:29:04 AM Just because one is ignorant of the truths of economics doesn’t mean they cease to describ.....
» 1/02/2011 11:28:18 AM "What is the nature of such an unstable reality I wonder?" Well that's the ques.....
» 31/01/2011 1:58:26 PM Could you please answer my specific questions? Who is the “we” and “our” you refer to? .....
» 31/01/2011 10:37:26 AM bonmot LOL By the way, was not Shintaro (the original one) just the greatest samurai? Th.....
» 31/01/2011 9:03:55 AM 13. If any part of your reasoning depends on the concept of benefits to “us” or “society”,.....
» 31/01/2011 9:03:05 AM Okay, thanks. 1. There’s not enough R&D: - relative to what? 2. How do you know that the.....
» 29/01/2011 2:52:45 PM …of a greater future good to the certainty of a lesser present good. Profitable (not loss-.....
» 29/01/2011 2:41:20 PM So it’s not true that there is or can be no such thing as a purely free market. This als.....
» 29/01/2011 2:40:34 PM Squeers You are only confirming my first remarks. You think there is no structure to reali.....
» 29/01/2011 8:13:00 AM I remember when the Chinese were starving by the millions while great crowds were happily .....
» 28/01/2011 10:38:43 AM Got that proof yet that the market for money was unregulated before, during and after the .....
» 28/01/2011 8:40:29 AM It still doesn’t make sense. It’s conjuring. There’s not enough R&D. Relative *to what*?.....
» 27/01/2011 8:32:14 AM Nicholas, you’re talking about the people who brought us the pink batts fiasco, the BER an.....
» 26/01/2011 8:44:11 PM “Plato and Aristotle … couldn't see a way around the problem [of slavery], just as we in t.....
» 26/01/2011 4:21:04 AM You have not refuted my or Rothbard’s arguments, you have just replied to the effect that .....
» 26/01/2011 4:19:25 AM … and it can kill, rape or rob without these being crimes, and even be rights! Any evide.....
» 26/01/2011 4:18:00 AM “Instead you ask for proof on matters that most people accept as obvious and fundamental” .....
» 25/01/2011 4:09:56 PM I was looking forward to a discussion of the contending orthodox versus Austrian school vi.....
» 24/01/2011 2:42:31 PM Foyle You first assume without proof that the state *is* society, and when called on that .....
» 24/01/2011 1:07:25 PM Do you mean to say you are preparing to make a submission in the High Court? They don't &q.....
» 24/01/2011 11:33:33 AM … And Aristotle wrote that no good citizens 'should be permitted to exercise any low mecha.....
» 24/01/2011 11:31:50 AM Squeers “Aristotle was born of an aristocratic family .. and entered Plato's Academy as a .....
» 24/01/2011 9:08:08 AM "Governments have been conned in the greatest shell game of all time into allowing ba.....
» 24/01/2011 8:53:18 AM JJW The purpose of economic activity is not to “create jobs”. We could create jobs by digg.....
» 24/01/2011 8:30:12 AM Foyle “Should not society attempt to help those children reach their full potential and ov.....
» 23/01/2011 6:40:52 PM 4. …cannot possibly be successful even in its own terms 5. relies on a double standard – .....
» 23/01/2011 6:38:20 PM Foyle You have not shown that any of my points are in any degree self-contradictory - only.....
» 23/01/2011 8:22:19 AM “How and who is using violence/threats/force?” Anyone initiating aggression is using viol.....
» 22/01/2011 7:49:06 PM "Peter....I think everyone has a right to an opinion....I think:)" Indubitably......
» 22/01/2011 4:17:09 PM Assuming God created man in His own image, it wouldn't and doesn’t follow from that, that .....
» 22/01/2011 12:33:21 PM Byork “You really shouldn't laugh at people or call them 'fools' when you actually believ.....
» 22/01/2011 11:29:53 AM Al “The sons of Ham:” You forgot “Aneggs” ☺ “Peter..and others, can you accept tha.....
» 21/01/2011 3:26:36 PM byork It is meaningless to define A to include not-A. It is confused to use definitions th.....
» 21/01/2011 2:41:50 PM Arjay "Peter Hume the currency is only fake when a Govt or private banking system pro.....
» 21/01/2011 2:34:11 PM Byork The absent authority does *not* define capitalism or socialism as you claim, so it .....
» 21/01/2011 11:42:30 AM "So... all I'm saying is that this leads to the 'open slather' idea of racism and eug.....
» 21/01/2011 10:57:19 AM "What's up with the social system of capitalism that it regards people as a problem?!.....
» 21/01/2011 10:12:30 AM "... no matter how we feel about the practice of zoophilia, does it not follow logica.....
» 21/01/2011 9:35:52 AM "It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, San.....
» 21/01/2011 9:35:16 AM Poirot We have already seen that Squeers reasoning depends on an underlying circularity. .....
» 21/01/2011 8:51:10 AM Good and thought-provoking article. There was an interesting program on the TV other day.....
» 20/01/2011 9:38:57 PM Yes but the people wouldn't be any better off if it was the president, or the congress, wh.....
» 20/01/2011 12:14:18 PM Pelican Yes I agree. "Ultimately governments need to grow a spine and corporations.....
» 20/01/2011 9:53:39 AM Very interesting post. However it is highly dubious that the granting of an exclusive mo.....
» 20/01/2011 9:16:15 AM maaate is showing once again that after the warmists' appeal to absent authority is questi.....
» 19/01/2011 8:08:45 PM maaate Why not just say "heretics" and have done with it?.....
» 19/01/2011 9:23:23 AM We need to remember that "climate change" is shorthand for "catastrophic an.....
» 19/01/2011 8:49:17 AM How do you distinguish social capital from common-or-garden capital? Is it social capita.....
» 18/01/2011 1:43:33 PM As Hobsbawm says: "THE GREAT SLUMP HAD BEEN DUE TO THE FAILURE OF THE UNRESTRICTED FR.....
» 18/01/2011 12:04:44 PM "Also, you need to convince the vast majority why they are all wrong." No I don.....
» 18/01/2011 9:29:07 AM In other words, your belief is unfalsifiable. The very fact that government exists prove.....
» 17/01/2011 11:28:44 PM So in other words, from the fact that violent interventions exist, you conclude that they .....
» 17/01/2011 10:49:43 AM What evidence would satisfy you?.....
» 17/01/2011 9:53:32 AM Oh a galavanting poltroon: great - we need more of them......
» 17/01/2011 8:40:26 AM What would satisfy you that these interventions cannot achieve their intended purpose, of .....
» 16/01/2011 9:08:44 PM This following radical claim at least deserves unbiased consideration, not to be flatly ig.....
» 16/01/2011 8:48:57 PM Chris, may I suggest you try a new approach to the same issues. Ask how society could be m.....
» 15/01/2011 10:11:09 PM >>Hobsbawm and you believe that capitalism caused the great depression and mass unem.....
» 15/01/2011 5:27:05 PM Vanna The dominance of markets by big multinationals is more a result of government inter.....
» 15/01/2011 5:10:22 PM All you’ve done is assume - without proving it - that the Great Depression was caused by u.....
» 15/01/2011 3:56:48 PM Chris I agree that what is politically possible defines the pragmatic and to me that depe.....
» 14/01/2011 9:58:41 PM Squeers You're just assuming what's in issue - again! For example, define 'genuine econo.....
» 14/01/2011 9:11:45 PM Okay, thank you. Before I discuss the Austrian solution, we need to clear the ground as .....
» 14/01/2011 4:00:57 PM Both of your arguments consist only of a) personal argument, and b) assuming what is in is.....
» 14/01/2011 3:43:16 PM Cronus Three fundamental problems with that approach: Firstly you assume the statist orth.....
» 14/01/2011 2:23:16 PM Grim They were either owned by ‘the public’ meaning the state e.g. bison, or unowned with .....
» 13/01/2011 9:12:29 PM In theory, people could own private property and consume all they produce – no growth. The.....
» 13/01/2011 8:58:36 PM Squeers “I responded to "your" personal remarks. You addressed nothing of subs.....
» 13/01/2011 11:39:42 AM We are all agreed then that governments are often inept - but the statists hold a flame fo.....
» 13/01/2011 7:27:34 AM Grim Think: who owned all the species you cited? All you've proved is that public owner.....
» 12/01/2011 10:18:13 PM Vanna A one-off emergency function is one thing; but what these statists have in mind is a.....
» 12/01/2011 8:50:04 PM We can only imagine with horror a world in which the food supply is organised by a) the Un.....
» 12/01/2011 5:12:51 PM Squeers Do you notice how, if we take away your personal remarks and assuming what is in i.....
» 12/01/2011 9:31:35 AM Of course the rest of the people in the world aren't bacteria in a laboratory of which Gri.....
» 11/01/2011 3:38:52 PM "Current land use practices are unsustainable." How do you know? If we aren't.....
» 10/01/2011 6:10:05 PM - freedom to deposit on terms of 100% backing in money, or on any other fraction (e.g. 95%.....
» 10/01/2011 6:08:47 PM By definition, a *derivative* is the wrong place to look for the *origin* of something. Th.....
» 10/01/2011 6:07:32 PM Squeers I agree about the dissatisfactory state of government as is. “The market” merely.....
» 9/01/2011 12:48:26 PM "... although I do note the importance of govt." Well that's assuming what's in.....
» 9/01/2011 11:04:54 AM The defining characteristic of human action is the very high degree of social co-operation.....
» 9/01/2011 11:01:33 AM In theory, the objections to a stateless society are obvious. If the free market would be .....
» 9/01/2011 11:00:33 AM partTimeParent Yes, “When goods don’t cross borders, armies will.” Bastiat The greens .....
» 7/01/2011 9:40:01 PM My philosophy can be seen in action wherever there are consensual transactions. Nobody thi.....
» 7/01/2011 11:25:10 AM The irony is that many children who do not learn to respect other people and their propert.....
» 7/01/2011 11:01:29 AM The point is that these problems of privilege and disadvantage do not just arise spontaneo.....
» 7/01/2011 11:00:48 AM Diver Dan “My understanding of the current financial crisis (GFC) of the western democraci.....
» 6/01/2011 3:14:47 PM (cont.) No other fiat currency is in a position to replace the USD. The only thing that ca.....
» 6/01/2011 3:12:53 PM 1. The welfare states are financially unsustainable and are on a collision course with rea.....
» 5/01/2011 9:19:49 AM We are unique LOL yeah. I used to flog my children with a broken bottle but I always used .....
» 5/01/2011 9:06:56 AM If there is a silver lining to the clouds of the GFC, it is the growing widespread underst.....
» 4/01/2011 2:06:32 PM Imagine how much better the results would be if parents were free to choose the teachers......
» 4/01/2011 1:44:08 PM LOL The passion of Christ would have to be the ultimate in child abuse, wouldn't it?.....
» 4/01/2011 1:11:02 PM Money is a market phenomenon. It arises without any central organisation by people trying .....
» 4/01/2011 11:41:50 AM And I suppose the children who are the subjects of the horrendous abuse of smacking are to.....
» 3/01/2011 11:45:51 AM Yes it's completely disgusting isn't it? And there is so little debate or discussion about.....
» 2/01/2011 6:55:45 PM Government control of banking and finance is by definition not neoliberal, so stop blaming.....
» 1/01/2011 7:44:03 PM PaulL The problems caused by government control of the economy cannot be solved by more g.....
» 31/12/2010 1:09:40 PM The 1951 UN Convention on Refugees defines "refugee" in broad terms. The fact is.....
» 31/12/2010 9:13:53 AM Underneath all the author’s sophisticated jargon is the childlike wish to get something fo.....
» 24/12/2010 3:29:13 PM Ludwig "On the basis that business as usual is just so grossly unsustainable and is t.....
» 24/12/2010 11:31:06 AM The reason big business is big is because it is providing what many people buy. Why do the.....
» 24/12/2010 8:46:32 AM 1. If the presumed wisdom and goodness of governments hadn't spent billions of dollars dev.....
» 23/12/2010 10:13:29 PM PaulL should pay more; his house and all his property should be confiscated to pay for his.....
» 23/12/2010 8:15:48 AM In particular, the idea that government has a) the knowledge b) the disinterestedness, or.....
» 23/12/2010 8:09:32 AM 1.Scientists of the calibre of the IPCC lead authors would be funded for research and trav.....
» 21/12/2010 8:23:10 PM PeterA The question is not whether there is "climate change". *Obviously* ther.....
» 21/12/2010 10:08:00 AM So a whole empire of government-funded technicians with a vested interest in more governme.....
» 20/12/2010 2:39:42 PM Very interesting article on the courageous, intelligent and original Yola Lucire. Her work.....
» 18/12/2010 4:33:24 PM The particular conditions of the distribution and abundance of species are notoriously obs.....
» 18/12/2010 4:31:18 PM Ludwig I have asked in here numerous times who is the "we" referred to by advoca.....
» 17/12/2010 1:02:19 PM I think, or at least I hope, it's a general phenomenon. I confess to giving up sending Chr.....
» 16/12/2010 7:59:09 PM "the reason that so many human beings go to bed hungry every day or die because of ma.....
» 15/12/2010 5:54:32 PM Dave Not even the government or the church claim that marriage is constituted by an act of.....
» 14/12/2010 10:31:25 AM Yes, very silly, it's fully thirteen layers deep in bullsh/t. Why don't all the people w.....
» 13/12/2010 12:46:43 PM The author conveniently ignores the fact that the Australian Human Rights Commission gets .....
» 13/12/2010 12:41:03 PM Cancun - a triumph of the parasite class over the productive class......
» 9/12/2010 4:00:08 PM "Once again, how we manage our scarce water resources is being held hostage by our 19.....
» 9/12/2010 1:25:31 PM Raycom You have the onus of proof back-the-front......
» 9/12/2010 1:20:38 PM These governments take their populations into war based on lies, and then when someone tel.....
» 26/11/2010 1:14:53 PM … (using this definition of exploitation: “a persistent social relationship in which certa.....
» 26/11/2010 1:10:06 PM “Oh and lastly thanks for bothering to debate with me. The process of composing my replys .....
» 25/11/2010 11:17:42 AM And so on. You’re just going in circles. It doesn't meet the threshold criteria of logical.....
» 25/11/2010 11:14:06 AM “Please explain. What has falsifiability got to do with anything?” If a proposition is no.....
» 25/11/2010 10:26:58 AM All the posts seem to me beside the point. Marriage existed for centuries, or millenia, .....
» 25/11/2010 9:57:25 AM "It is time for reform, not the minor tinkering that constitutes reform in current po.....
» 24/11/2010 11:42:07 AM Please define exploit......
» 22/11/2010 12:51:02 PM Yes, interesting. So how would the whole tax system ideally work under Georgist principl.....
» 22/11/2010 11:37:46 AM Putting aside the symbolic purposes for a moment, what are the practical purposes of the m.....
» 22/11/2010 9:33:59 AM "Being a surplus in the production process, land rent is properly owed back equally t.....
» 22/11/2010 9:26:39 AM The problem is inherent in trying to replace natural parents with foster parents, whether .....
» 22/11/2010 8:59:36 AM Ken Please answer the question: how much difference to global temperatures will it make if.....
» 20/11/2010 5:37:48 PM Proxy LOL thanks yeah. It reminds me of Robert Kiyosaki "If you argue with an idiot,.....
» 19/11/2010 11:09:22 AM On International Men's Day we should celebrate the right of men to make women pregnant and.....
» 19/11/2010 10:52:09 AM Profit results only if the capitalist is able to combine the factors of production so that.....
» 19/11/2010 10:51:06 AM And if the end product is not sold until a year or more into the future, the worker doesn’.....
» 19/11/2010 10:49:47 AM That reminds me of an argument I once had with my brother. He said “Your argument is unfa.....
» 18/11/2010 8:34:58 PM mikk What you're saying is simply illogical: employment is exploitative because it's explo.....
» 18/11/2010 3:40:48 PM I've got a better idea. Why not a women's legislature passing laws that apply only to wome.....
» 16/11/2010 12:17:17 PM So a guy who does dangerous, dirty, hard work will get paid the same as one who does safe,.....
» 16/11/2010 10:54:03 AM mikk Sorry, appeal to absent authority doesn't do it for me. You need to prove your argume.....
» 16/11/2010 9:11:33 AM "This is about a safety net for the worst off, that dosent encourage/reward idleness,.....
» 15/11/2010 1:58:41 PM The Liberal Democratic Party proposes welfare, tax and minimum-wage reform in one package,.....
» 15/11/2010 1:28:24 PM Popperish, then why don't you put a price for everything in the world in your own list of .....
» 15/11/2010 1:22:01 PM I think all personal argumentation should be deleted, for two reasons. It is very common.....
» 13/11/2010 3:56:14 PM No, Candide, but I know it's a much greater number who come in by plane, usually with a va.....
» 12/11/2010 9:34:53 AM "This effectively created a special creature of law - a refugee who was not, in a sen.....
» 12/11/2010 8:58:54 AM This assumes the competence and disinterestedness of the World Bank or the UN to ‘better m.....
» 27/10/2010 3:18:11 PM "The federal governments one country one set of rules policy is understandable, but w.....
» 27/10/2010 3:13:24 PM "It would seem that now the public mood has been made clear that the NBN is wanted........
» 27/10/2010 1:51:02 PM HoHum Go right ahead and stop consuming. The term "cargo cult" doesn't mean go.....
» 27/10/2010 1:29:20 PM "The CSA arose out of a perception that a father must pay for his children." Th.....
» 27/10/2010 1:12:09 PM Interesting article. The fact is that the spending commitments of the welfare state are .....
» 27/10/2010 8:23:43 AM Brilliant......
» 23/10/2010 8:30:43 AM "Sounds like a good read, if you want to write about evolution, don't read Dawkins an.....
» 22/10/2010 7:58:19 PM Gilbert It’s back the front for several reasons. >A lot of behaviour such as finding.....
» 22/10/2010 7:25:43 PM "By the way Pete, if anyone becomes a parent, ANYONE, be they male or female, that pe.....
» 22/10/2010 3:41:21 PM Candide How could anyone have sex without objectifying another? GAJ Do you respect and c.....
» 22/10/2010 2:00:15 PM “How many theorists are advocating the idea that our tendency to evolve in communities, an.....
» 22/10/2010 9:21:39 AM Women don’t have babies as a matter of gender, they have them as a matter of sex. While .....
» 22/10/2010 9:04:43 AM "No-one will ever win the battle of the sexes while there is so much fraternising wit.....
» 22/10/2010 8:57:52 AM Gilbert, I can state Darwin's theory in a nutshell. Can you state what yours is in a nutsh.....
» 20/10/2010 3:22:29 PM And it doesn’t make the allegedly “exploited” workers better off. If it imposes costs *abo.....
» 20/10/2010 3:21:54 PM Remember since violence and threats are illegal under capitalism, we are talking about *vo.....
» 20/10/2010 3:21:31 PM Even if all your premises were conceded (theory of exploitation), and even ignoring all qu.....
» 20/10/2010 10:57:18 AM Paul What makes you think governments aren't principal among the snake oil salesmen? The e.....
» 20/10/2010 9:38:43 AM Thanks for keeping an open mind LOL. The state has aided and abetted capitalism in the s.....
» 20/10/2010 9:03:53 AM Gee Bugsy, watch out, the rot is setting in. First you’ll agree with me on this, and then .....
» 20/10/2010 9:00:35 AM > Have you got a reference for Marx asking to dedicate Capital to Darwin? No I haven’.....
» 19/10/2010 4:13:24 PM You still haven't shown how your view could be falsified, so your method continues to be t.....
» 19/10/2010 4:00:28 PM Gilbert Holmes alleges that Darwin made a significant error, but does not identify it or p.....
» 19/10/2010 9:05:48 AM All the economic issues turn on underlying issues of epistemology. *How do we know* that e.....
» 19/10/2010 8:35:46 AM Poirot I have asked how your belief could be falsified and you have not shown how it could.....
» 17/10/2010 5:33:17 PM Poirot Looks like our conscience is indulging its chronic bad habit of killing innocent me.....
» 16/10/2010 6:59:42 PM Nature imposes scarcity on mankind, but the miraculous State, by passing laws, can make pe.....
» 16/10/2010 6:57:47 PM King Hazza Good point. We should have that here. Then we wouldn’t be (forced to pay for &q.....
» 15/10/2010 11:18:51 AM > It seems that here we come to the crux of your argument - in desiring to dismiss gove.....
» 15/10/2010 9:49:39 AM Profit and loss are the means by which the masses exercise unconditional control over the .....
» 15/10/2010 9:49:07 AM A common response to the arguments showing the State’s corruption and criminality are to a.....
» 14/10/2010 9:33:04 PM No, it won't do. It is a complete error to see private corporations profiting, and identif.....
» 14/10/2010 9:26:29 PM Yes LOL. Didn’t recognize ourselves. What you say is true but that hardly vindicates the.....
» 14/10/2010 3:44:55 PM The original idea of representative government was of course that Parliament would be the .....
» 14/10/2010 3:33:54 PM Very interesting article. So then is there a neuropsychological unit identified with what.....
» 14/10/2010 2:25:15 PM "All we currently have is a government frightened of the electorate..." I thoug.....
» 14/10/2010 1:59:38 PM If all the water was where all the people wanted it to be, there would be no possibility o.....
» 14/10/2010 1:59:13 PM Bruce Let’s suppose that your wishes were granted, and that legislation authorized a pers.....
» 14/10/2010 8:32:06 AM Poirot Yes......
» 13/10/2010 4:03:50 PM (cont.) • government has a legitimate right to “manage” the economy, and to run massive co.....
» 13/10/2010 4:03:26 PM There’s no question that big business and big government are in it up to their necks, and .....
» 13/10/2010 1:48:32 PM The perfectly reasonable question arising from your post is whether you purposefully waste.....
» 12/10/2010 3:34:05 PM >> How would you prove it? > By observing what is happening in society. Prove .....
» 12/10/2010 3:30:49 PM Beelzebub, before going somewhere, do you first make sure to puncture all the tyres, so yo.....
» 12/10/2010 2:06:14 PM Al Actually your argument is ethically no different than the ethics of the Nuremberg defen.....
» 12/10/2010 1:44:52 PM There you go blaming capitalists for the actions of governments exercising their monopoly .....
» 12/10/2010 8:53:14 AM ALGOREisRICH LOL That's the first time anyone's called me a socialist! "They are n.....
» 12/10/2010 8:43:45 AM "Consider what a maximally efficient society would be like. It would have the smalles.....
» 12/10/2010 8:13:05 AM It's man's inhumanity to frog......
» 11/10/2010 9:27:15 PM Looking at the Four Corners report on Secret Iraq, it is hard not be impressed by the desp.....
» 11/10/2010 8:46:29 AM "Close quarters contact is like nightmares except you have to see it through to the e.....
» 10/10/2010 12:31:58 PM Being able to use scarce factors profitably is actually quite rare. Most people can’t do i.....
» 10/10/2010 12:29:42 PM Channeling Marx, the socialists’ mistake is that the value of a good is *in* the thing its.....
» 10/10/2010 12:26:34 PM The idea that the existence of profit self-evidently proves the misallocation of scarce re.....
» 8/10/2010 3:02:14 PM " If they are willing to offer us their lives to defend us and our interests ...".....
» 8/10/2010 12:41:17 PM (cont.) The labour theory of value is simply wrong. And that theory is the basis of the s.....
» 8/10/2010 10:58:58 AM Pelican Economics does occur naturally, because nature imposes certain limitations on huma.....
» 8/10/2010 10:57:31 AM David f > Socialism implies neither government ownership nor a command economy. Agree.....
» 8/10/2010 9:19:17 AM stop regulating apprenticeships out of existence, thus creating an artificial shortage of .....
» 8/10/2010 9:11:38 AM rehctub All your suggestions turn on more government. But there's lots we could do with .....
» 8/10/2010 8:54:52 AM Don Aitkin Exactly. The overweening arrogance and intellectual dereliction of these anti.....
» 7/10/2010 11:35:36 AM … is a collective need; until recently many thought airlines were a collective need; now L.....
» 7/10/2010 11:34:58 AM Pelican “We need an economic system that works for us not against us - economic systems ar.....
» 6/10/2010 1:53:30 PM Only the state can provide for universal needs like broadband and handouts to corporations.....
» 6/10/2010 12:59:32 PM So let’s get this straight. No-one is to have any claim on the fruits of his labour but th.....
» 6/10/2010 10:52:27 AM "Does this guy have a day job?" Yes. He's an academic at the Australian Nationa.....
» 6/10/2010 9:45:07 AM "Long live socialism from below." What would it actually look like, in your opi.....
» 6/10/2010 9:16:27 AM Interesting article. Parliament began in about 1450, but formal political parties didn't.....
» 5/10/2010 4:24:10 PM People who talk about different possible “economic systems” are merely displaying their ig.....
» 5/10/2010 10:45:59 AM Saw the program on the Queen the other day and remarked to my wife that she seemed to be a.....
» 2/10/2010 8:56:13 PM Oh so the Marxist communists know better than everyone else the way to a fairer and more p.....
» 1/10/2010 4:46:11 PM [Deleted. Refers to deleted comment above.] Wow - we are amazed at your perspicacity. d.....
» 1/10/2010 3:46:01 PM It's not just the abuse of animals that's the problem - what about the abuse of vegetables.....
» 1/10/2010 2:47:49 PM Appeal to collectives, classes, -isms, averages, aggregates, and abstract concepts like “c.....
» 1/10/2010 2:47:18 PM I give up debating Grok because a) his entire approach consists of presuming to know bett.....
» 1/10/2010 10:09:25 AM Clownfish. Yes. Positively hootful. Grok “Rest my case.” In case you haven’t noticed, yo.....
» 30/09/2010 3:27:01 PM Sarnian You forgot Obama, Rudd and Gillard - all war criminals who should be in prison doi.....
» 30/09/2010 2:18:41 PM Grok Is that the best you can do - assuming what is in issue, appeal to absent authority, .....
» 30/09/2010 11:23:48 AM Grim It is true that all capitalists aspire to be monopolists. What stops it happening is .....
» 30/09/2010 11:22:44 AM Clownfish “Actually, I think Aristotle was probably right when he argued that a happy medi.....
» 29/09/2010 8:37:50 PM We continue to hear this sentiment that “Socialism is good in theory but…” But socialism .....
» 29/09/2010 3:18:48 PM Yeah cars kill a lot of people, and butter causes heart attacks, so I suppose we should be.....
» 29/09/2010 12:47:48 PM A well-written article, and I think you go as far towards making sense as is possible for .....
» 29/09/2010 12:22:16 PM Yes, bring them home, hear hear. Shooting babies, children and teenagers - what an utter d.....
» 29/09/2010 12:12:19 PM Kelly, the latest facts about Australian soldiers being involved in killing children can o.....
» 29/09/2010 11:20:25 AM Marx considered himself first and foremost an economist, but in academe it was the economi.....
» 28/09/2010 3:49:16 PM His follower “Chuang Tzu reiterated and embellished Lao Tzu's devotion to laissez-faire an.....
» 28/09/2010 3:48:51 PM Gilbert, I thought it was a very good article. It made clear the underlying connection bet.....
» 28/09/2010 2:39:26 PM That's interesting TrashCanMan. What was it when Labor got in?.....
» 24/09/2010 3:40:39 PM Samian Governments are shutting down the production of fossil fuels in more ways than can .....
» 24/09/2010 1:57:21 PM thinkabit Well said, you are right. We are frequently told that population growth exceed.....
» 23/09/2010 11:42:32 AM How do you decide which issues should be decided by referendum, and which not?.....
» 22/09/2010 11:04:11 AM It is laughable that you think that *not* imposing a carbon tax was a mistake! What do you.....
» 22/09/2010 10:52:04 AM Obviously the people advocating a fair price aren’t able to define it. If the definition.....
» 22/09/2010 10:13:35 AM “However, the problem with collecting Stuff is that there is always more Stuff being made,.....
» 20/09/2010 4:46:45 PM People talk about the money that the government “injected” into the community without seem.....
» 30/08/2010 9:47:26 AM The reason it doesn’t make sense to you is because you’re using a double standard. You rec.....
» 29/08/2010 8:14:48 PM If it’s true that government has a general competence to manage the economy: a) Why didn’t.....
» 29/08/2010 1:45:59 PM Your analysis begins and ends with the prerogatives of government. There's no reason why t.....
» 28/08/2010 5:34:26 PM Keeping adding water increases wellbeing to a point, and then reduces it. And the creati.....
» 28/08/2010 1:49:04 PM It’s both uneconomic and unethical: it depends on ‘divine right of kings’ and denial of ec.....
» 28/08/2010 11:30:35 AM I maintain that Keynesianism is an amalgam of unfalsifiable beliefs that ultimately rest i.....
» 27/08/2010 10:02:48 PM Well we are agreed that the current state of regulation of money, credit and banking is un.....
» 27/08/2010 2:29:00 PM "All I can suggest is that we revive the harem system which was used to motivate rule.....
» 27/08/2010 1:17:44 PM (cont.) You also share the Keynesian assumption that government has nothing to do with th.....
» 27/08/2010 1:14:03 PM foyle “A stimulus package aimed at constructing school facilities or insulating homes doe.....
» 27/08/2010 10:42:55 AM Well said. Women wearing the burqa do not have to justify to everyone else that they hav.....
» 27/08/2010 9:28:39 AM “Keynes is making the case that we should add to the real infrastructure wealth of the com.....
» 26/08/2010 1:19:15 PM Foyle "Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the .....
» 26/08/2010 10:56:58 AM According to John Turner's theory, paying a million dollars to buy a demountable buildings.....
» 25/08/2010 12:54:53 PM GH Even if all you're saying were granted, there is no reason to think that government wou.....
» 25/08/2010 11:15:57 AM Balance implies a middle path between private decision-making about production on the one .....
» 24/08/2010 12:43:36 PM "For our next GG we need to ensure she/he have no family, friends or relations. It mi.....
» 24/08/2010 12:35:57 PM Ozandy "As for the feasibility of renewables...until fossil fuels are not taxpayer su.....
» 24/08/2010 10:05:45 AM GH Even if we take for granted all you assume, it still doesn't say how the alternative a.....
» 24/08/2010 9:38:03 AM Fickle Pickle That is just nonsense. If it's true, then why don't you and everyone else wh.....
» 23/08/2010 6:52:03 PM Pelican Subsidies and handouts do not come from some kind of calculation of whether they a.....
» 23/08/2010 6:11:25 PM The arguments for AGW policy action have been conclusively exploded so many times that I s.....
» 23/08/2010 2:23:48 PM "We do NOT have to finance renewable energy projects with savings or taxes. We can fi.....
» 23/08/2010 10:12:34 AM Very good article. This disproves what you often hear people reply about compulsory voti.....
» 23/08/2010 5:12:19 AM What examinator is calling facts is nothing but his own prejudices going round and round i.....
» 22/08/2010 7:22:29 PM Political parties are private organizations specifically intended to capture the public la.....
» 22/08/2010 9:35:06 AM Interesting watching each seat being called; so many with only one or so percentage points.....
» 21/08/2010 8:58:12 PM Your argument is intellectually and morally bankrupt and you know it. If there is no way.....
» 21/08/2010 2:12:31 PM But if there are four parties to an argument about achieving higher productivity: one advo.....
» 21/08/2010 2:06:50 PM Examinator You have not shown where true logic ends and faux logic begins in the argument.....
» 20/08/2010 9:54:02 PM Mikk Interesting link. In a nutshell, the guy is saying that economic calculation compre.....
» 20/08/2010 4:25:30 PM Pelican All government involves a claim to a legal monopoly of the use of force or threats.....
» 18/08/2010 10:15:31 PM For an example of a universally valid proposition in economics, you can only increase a fi.....
» 18/08/2010 10:12:07 PM examinator How do you square your concept of ‘absolute’ or ‘extreme’ views with the concep.....
» 18/08/2010 6:45:09 PM Tristan Economic and personal liberties are two sides of the same coin, so the fact that s.....
» 18/08/2010 10:07:21 AM "I think I will write on my ballot "bring back kev!" for an informal vote t.....
» 18/08/2010 10:02:01 AM The arguments of the interventionists only make sense if everything is just a matter of op.....
» 18/08/2010 9:24:32 AM There is little or no evidence that the state in fact represents the people. One of the .....
» 16/08/2010 10:26:51 AM Ricardo’s argument was in the context of contemporary political argument between protectio.....
» 14/08/2010 6:15:05 PM examinator "Implicit in my response is the logical assumption that in order to keep t.....
» 12/08/2010 2:20:50 PM "The simple fact is that the majority of large corporations will do whatever it takes.....
» 11/08/2010 9:42:32 PM Interesting discussion. I read somewhere that the rate of breakdown of de facto relations.....
» 10/08/2010 6:37:44 PM Before 1920, the debate over socialism was how best to approach it. No-one doubted that it.....
» 10/08/2010 4:29:43 PM The same cannot be said of using force, so the problem of what you call absolute knowledge.....
» 10/08/2010 4:29:11 PM > You have *proven* nothing least of all your original assertion. Yes I have. I have .....
» 10/08/2010 11:49:18 AM Examinator It is true that human motivations and action are enormously variable, and that .....
» 9/08/2010 10:45:47 AM "I am not being any more morally superior than those in your no-regulation camp.".....
» 9/08/2010 9:41:06 AM Pelican We have already factored in collectives - voluntary collectives. You have not esta.....
» 9/08/2010 9:33:07 AM mikk "[Capitalism] Knows the price of everything but the value of nothing." Wha.....
» 8/08/2010 9:45:13 PM Imagine an island with seven people on it producing a total of seven goods, with no contac.....
» 6/08/2010 12:51:56 PM I wonder how many centuries you would have to go back in history before finding a king who.....
» 4/08/2010 12:17:32 PM The problem on this point is, all of you are right!.....
» 4/08/2010 12:21:51 AM bushbred do you honestly think that paying a million dollars for buildings worth $100,000,.....
» 3/08/2010 11:42:43 PM “What, indeed, could science be without reason?” Mises, Epistemological Problems of Econom.....
» 3/08/2010 3:49:53 PM When government-funded scientists 'adjust' the raw data so as to increase warming trends b.....
» 3/08/2010 3:45:10 PM Carbon is one of the commonest elements in the universe and the characteristic of life. So.....
» 3/08/2010 3:13:44 PM LOL Smacks of magic pudding to me......
» 3/08/2010 12:07:13 PM "Your repeated claim is that governments shouldn't get involved at all..." I ha.....
» 2/08/2010 8:35:11 PM It never seems to occur to the self-appointed born-to-rule mob, who presume to know better.....
» 2/08/2010 4:38:49 PM Skeptics: Well I’m not surprised. If they do it at a loss, they’ll go broke. You’re someho.....
» 2/08/2010 4:37:42 PM Thank you for your kind remarks. Your method *again* relies entirely on assuming what yo.....
» 2/08/2010 8:39:50 AM More mumbo-jumbo and gizzard-lore from the modern superstitious. The only reason they ar.....
» 1/08/2010 2:19:59 AM The great concern of the environmental movement is that our current standard of living and.....
» 1/08/2010 1:20:48 AM Why not? Because there is factually nothing about a legal monopoly of coercion, and coerci.....
» 1/08/2010 1:17:36 AM Jedimaster “That is because it is impossible to prove anything that is still in the futu.....
» 30/07/2010 3:48:27 PM As to the epistemology, let us assume, very much in your favour, that everything you have .....
» 30/07/2010 3:32:54 PM The fact it’s hard to logically prove the benefit, and the fact that the transaction is no.....
» 30/07/2010 3:32:15 PM “Yet, you yourself prove [the three questions] to be invalid, by your reliance on them bei.....
» 30/07/2010 12:53:50 PM "Even if the $1 came from the wages of those in other emitting occupations (albeit sm.....
» 30/07/2010 11:25:20 AM Jedimaster I’m afraid at this stage we enter into a debate on the epistemology. (Aaaaaaaa.....
» 29/07/2010 10:04:17 PM Many otherwise sensible people unwittingly believe it is better for the environment for us.....
» 29/07/2010 9:52:45 PM I'll assume that you're arguing in good faith and as it seems that you genuinely can't und.....
» 29/07/2010 3:51:07 PM Carbon is one of the commonest elements. There is already a price for carbon in all our co.....
» 29/07/2010 3:46:45 PM Why just 150 people to decide? Why not 22 million? Everyone who thinks a carbon tax is jus.....
» 29/07/2010 3:40:48 PM Two articles from the paper today are relevant: 1.(NSW Government) Sydney Buses in the las.....
» 29/07/2010 3:33:12 PM Excuse me? What has happened here is that I have refuted your false assumption that &quo.....
» 29/07/2010 2:10:05 PM Aaron The fact that positive science does not of itself supply value judgments, does not ‘.....
» 28/07/2010 8:18:15 PM Rather, these limitations on human action and production possibilities follow directly fro.....
» 28/07/2010 8:13:12 PM Examinator Who is the ‘we’ you keep referring to? As for ‘argument that is predicated o.....
» 28/07/2010 5:11:56 PM They already pay income tax on profits, land tax, fuel tax, fringe benefits tax, capital g.....
» 28/07/2010 4:54:35 PM Excellent article, Kellie. I hope that one day you will turn the same critical inquiry t.....
» 28/07/2010 4:42:16 PM StG "It's a FACT that we could, and should, function better as a species." What.....
» 28/07/2010 3:31:18 PM Examinator That quote I quoted was from CO2 in the first post to this thread. The precau.....
» 28/07/2010 1:55:55 PM Jedimaster All I can say is, you are assuming what is in issue, and have not established a.....
» 28/07/2010 11:47:09 AM >'precautionary principle' is insane, i.e. "let's destroy our economy, just in cas.....
» 28/07/2010 11:20:18 AM The problem that the advocates of policy action do not realise they are facing is this. .....
» 28/07/2010 10:36:34 AM Jedimaster I have shown three reasons why the arguments for policy action on global warmin.....
» 27/07/2010 12:47:46 PM To argue that we cannot be 100% certain before action, is a) to assume that the warmists .....
» 27/07/2010 12:47:24 PM The issue is not whether the climate is changing, it is whether policy action on global wa.....
» 23/07/2010 2:26:50 PM Loxton and Jedimaster You have both assumed that tempoerature measurements settle all the.....
» 23/07/2010 12:46:40 PM TrashcanMan 'Stern and other dogmatic denialists posing as sceptics' Ho hum ad hom I'm n.....
» 23/07/2010 12:39:48 PM Do you notice how none of the warmists in here have actually addressed the issues? Trashc.....
» 23/07/2010 11:00:04 AM Free trade would be good so long as Pelican got to dictate the terms of it?.....
» 23/07/2010 10:22:53 AM The least of the warmists' irrationality is in the positive science. The far greater irr.....
» 21/07/2010 12:28:31 PM If the minimum wage doesn't cause unemployment, why not make it $100 an hour?.....
» 19/07/2010 2:29:44 PM The lesser of two evils is still evil......
» 19/07/2010 12:45:54 PM (‘Penultimate’ doesn’t mean ‘the mostest’; it means second last.) “The institution of mar.....
» 17/07/2010 6:59:15 PM [Deleted for abuse and poster suspended].....
» 17/07/2010 6:44:08 PM You have *total* control over whether you buy a service in the private sector, they are li.....
» 17/07/2010 6:27:56 PM You are lying. It is not irrational to think the private sector can produce things economi.....
» 17/07/2010 5:53:09 PM Qanda, the onus of proof is on those asserting that the globe is warming but let's not pre.....
» 17/07/2010 4:54:01 PM More superstitious liturgy. Accountability doesn’t apply at all to the government. Have .....
» 16/07/2010 4:02:49 PM Human beings are noxious pests who should all be machine-gunned - for a better society......
» 16/07/2010 3:35:51 PM ...which means God won't like us, right?.....
» 16/07/2010 3:17:18 PM David G displays more of the unfalsifiable belief. As to the past, government was unblamew.....
» 16/07/2010 1:03:51 PM "Remember these? they are the fools that bought us the GFC that was the cause of the .....
» 16/07/2010 11:27:18 AM “We both felt the parties we had belonged to had degenerated into organisations focused on.....
» 16/07/2010 10:58:27 AM If this was done by a private corporation, the directors responsible for it would be in pr.....
» 16/07/2010 10:43:42 AM Belly, assuming the thread were not to be distracted, what policy proposal were you wantin.....
» 16/07/2010 10:23:50 AM What a disaster. We need to understand however, that this order of waste is going on in .....
» 15/07/2010 3:12:10 PM Squeers That’s your idea of defending your propositions is it – more ad hominem drivel? I.....
» 14/07/2010 9:04:08 PM Poirot instead of citing academic authors channelling Marx, I challenge you to answer the .....
» 14/07/2010 7:51:04 PM It is bad enough being educated but completely ignorant of the refutations of your Marxist.....
» 14/07/2010 7:46:17 PM Notice that none of the critics of capitalism have yet established: 1. that capitalism is .....
» 14/07/2010 10:33:42 AM Squeers "To replace it with considered policy capable of addressing the enormous cha.....
» 14/07/2010 10:09:31 AM The critics of capitalism never rebut the reasonable inference that abolishing economic ca.....
» 14/07/2010 9:45:44 AM Squeers “...tendency of capital creation to always radiate outwards and utilise cheaper la.....
» 13/07/2010 5:32:41 PM Which are we closer to now: the libertarian ideal of a society based on “unfettered capita.....
» 13/07/2010 5:32:13 PM Severin “talk of "the alternative" - what exactly are you referring to?” I’m no.....
» 13/07/2010 12:52:15 PM (Okay well I get the message I should write an article or summat lark that, thank you.) (.....
» 13/07/2010 12:41:52 PM Squeers, farmers diluting milk is fraudulent and therefore illegal under capitalism. Such .....
» 13/07/2010 12:31:20 PM "If the opposition can table some valid argument that renders what others have been s.....
» 12/07/2010 12:55:41 PM TBC, Severin The fact of government handouts to businesses, and that businesses scramble f.....
» 12/07/2010 11:56:35 AM Squeers Is that your main argument, or are you keeping your good ones in reserve?.....
» 11/07/2010 9:19:24 PM (I once met a subsistence farmer/hunter in the Solomon Islands. The whole village only had.....
» 11/07/2010 9:12:52 PM Most spifflicatingly eloquent. "The problem with capitalism is the overabundance an.....
» 11/07/2010 9:07:16 PM Most spifflicatingly eloquent. "The problem with capitalism is the overabundance an.....
» 11/07/2010 7:55:28 PM For some reason the author and many greens don't seem to understand that it's not more sus.....
» 11/07/2010 6:34:22 PM However once the alternative system is reduced to trying to mimic the action of the market.....
» 11/07/2010 6:31:54 PM 2. The argument from economic calculation shows by logical reasoning that any alternative.....
» 11/07/2010 6:30:22 PM Squeers So far you’ve said a) you have admitted to not having an alternative; then said b).....
» 10/07/2010 5:35:59 AM b) If you do not or cannot propose any alternative to capitalism, then your opinion that i.....
» 10/07/2010 5:33:46 AM > I don't know what a "Marxist" is, I mean apart from the bogey-man you're so.....
» 9/07/2010 4:51:05 PM That's the first time I've heard China and India described as 'utterly devoid of humanity'.....
» 9/07/2010 3:17:24 PM Wow, a real live Marxist. I thought you were an extinct species. Marx was certainly a ch.....
» 8/07/2010 7:58:41 PM You conclude that capitalism involves endless growth on a finite base, from your premise t.....
» 8/07/2010 2:40:19 PM "Now do you have any comments or counter-arguments to make about what I or anyone els.....
» 8/07/2010 12:52:14 PM 1. If people's own voluntary behaviour is what gives rise to their need for other people's.....
» 7/07/2010 2:32:56 PM Charles Darwin once calculated that a pair of common house flies, at their ordinary rate o.....
» 7/07/2010 10:26:33 AM "Peter the entitlement comes from all of us being members of the human race and Austr.....
» 6/07/2010 3:24:03 PM "The right to health is the equal entitlement of all persons but, in Australia, some .....
» 1/06/2010 1:08:52 PM (Cont.) * reasserting people's and community control over production; The people, in their.....
» 1/06/2010 1:07:15 PM Underneath the feel-good trendy catch-phrases, this is just the same old socialist creed o.....
» 1/06/2010 2:11:10 AM Wow, a whole lot of mind-reading, personal argument, straw men, misrepresentation and assu.....
» 1/06/2010 1:46:58 AM CJ Your argument amounts to nothing but name-calling. The idea that it's bad for something.....
» 31/05/2010 1:47:10 PM Australian men are cast in the role of third-class citizens, mules and asses whose job is .....
» 31/05/2010 1:44:48 PM I understand that you think it’s a red herring, but the point is, you haven’t shown why. Y.....
» 31/05/2010 1:04:11 PM AlGOREisRICH Well we're agreed there. Australia withdrawing from the UN Refugees Conven.....
» 30/05/2010 2:21:36 PM Antiseptic You still have not shown how the argument would not equally apply to the fact .....
» 30/05/2010 1:53:00 PM Formersnag Sorry, my internet connection has been difficult or impossible and I stopped fo.....
» 29/05/2010 2:33:31 PM "There has to be a better way..." There is. All compulsion on *anyone* to pay s.....
» 29/05/2010 2:27:18 PM "There has to be a better way..." There is. All compulsion on *anyone* to pay s.....
» 29/05/2010 2:02:09 PM And yes, a homosexual at risk of persecution in Australia could, in principle at least, su.....
» 29/05/2010 1:55:59 PM Proxy Homosexuals aren't 'demanding' the right to practise homosexuality nor to 'come out'.....
» 15/05/2010 8:27:57 PM Pericles Unless you are going to argue that full socialism is viable, then it is common g.....
» 14/05/2010 11:22:39 PM So in other words yes, a climate scientist can do a study measuring air temperatures and t.....
» 14/05/2010 8:21:17 PM Ho-hum. Pericles trying to by run the argument into personal remarks and assuming what is .....
» 14/05/2010 3:08:33 PM ...and poverty – as well as the abuses of totalitarian power. Which is exactly what happen.....
» 14/05/2010 3:06:53 PM Paul, Geoff You don’t seem to be understanding the issue. Let’s say our purpose is to sa.....
» 14/05/2010 12:24:09 PM Just ban everything......
» 14/05/2010 12:16:38 PM The consensuality of these acts provides a complete answer to any moral issue. It is not t.....
» 14/05/2010 12:14:57 PM If there are two groups of people and one group has babies, and the other group doesn’t, h.....
» 13/05/2010 10:34:30 PM Everyone opposed to age discrimination in this thread has assumed that mature people repre.....
» 13/05/2010 10:27:25 PM *All* human action consists of discrimination, of preferring A to B, of picking and choosi.....
» 13/05/2010 10:23:03 PM Tony Please admit that science does not supply value judgments, and therefore that a) cli.....
» 13/05/2010 7:20:15 PM Geoff, nairbe, Paul What do you say is the *economic* difference between the governmental .....
» 13/05/2010 4:01:46 PM Geoff You talk as if balancing the budget were some kind of unworthy consideration. Howe.....
» 13/05/2010 10:22:17 AM All If we are to move beyond the left/right dichotomy, we must have a better conceptual to.....
» 12/05/2010 10:08:03 AM Yes, the original vision of Labor is dead. But it’s not dead because its politicians ever .....
» 11/05/2010 9:11:25 PM Good idea, qanda. What have you done to plan for it? The government's idea of planning .....
» 11/05/2010 9:01:36 PM Tony So in other words, you are not willing to pay anything voluntarily to stop global war.....
» 11/05/2010 8:44:24 PM All this talk about grocery stores. Why it reminds me when I was a young feller, we used t.....
» 11/05/2010 4:02:52 AM Rehtub is right. Actually there are two major forces tending to this outcome. The firs.....
» 11/05/2010 3:29:12 AM Interesting to read about the reality TV show on virgins auctioning off their virginity. T.....
» 10/05/2010 4:59:38 PM Tony, Loxton Wow, assuming what is in issue, appeal to absent authority, and personal argu.....
» 10/05/2010 2:29:08 PM What makes anyone think that government is any better at providing health care than they a.....
» 10/05/2010 2:16:45 PM Tony Stop your snivelling childish tantrum. Assuming what is in issue is a logical falla.....
» 10/05/2010 12:38:29 PM miacat How do you calculate the difference between the fair price, and the market price, i.....
» 10/05/2010 11:47:53 AM Ogden Nash on babies... "A little talcum Is always walcum."?.....
» 10/05/2010 11:44:55 AM If there were no single spelling standard, it would mean the writing of the English-speaki.....
» 5/05/2010 12:12:03 PM The Taoists maintain that “monogamy is mutually injurious”; and *near* monogamy is the hum.....
» 5/05/2010 12:11:06 PM No-one is saying women should be solely responsible for looking after children. I am sayin.....
» 5/05/2010 12:10:37 PM Pelican It *is* an interesting re-write of history, because the history was writ wrong. .....
» 4/05/2010 5:16:02 PM > One moment please- I just have to go and fetch a bucket..... Do I detect a hint of h.....
» 4/05/2010 4:43:59 PM Well which ones do you agree with, if any?.....
» 4/05/2010 12:50:06 PM It was during the eons when our ancestors did *not* understand it, that the general patter.....
» 4/05/2010 12:46:50 PM Foxy LOL Yabby LOL, thanks for that. I'm doing this for you too, brother. Pelican It’s .....
» 4/05/2010 10:06:35 AM 5. the woman has the choice whether or not to consent, and whether or not to abort, which .....
» 4/05/2010 10:05:48 AM Foxy No-one’s talking about forcing anyone into sex they don’t consent to. Suzie and Pel.....
» 3/05/2010 4:01:56 PM (cont.) If she stipulates for paternal contributions, then she is morally entitled to it;.....
» 3/05/2010 4:00:55 PM Pelican Your argument is, in essence, that biological causation automatically justifies mo.....
» 3/05/2010 10:29:21 AM More to the point, why do women as a group tend to find distasteful the idea that men like.....
» 3/05/2010 10:28:20 AM The fallacies on which Suzieonline’s argument rests being blown away, she has nothing to a.....
» 2/05/2010 9:57:10 PM (cont.) It is a non-sequitur to reason that if success at reproducing were the driving for.....
» 2/05/2010 9:46:36 PM Pynchme and suzie Don’t be absurd. I won’t disgust you with the details, but a) the guy.....
» 1/05/2010 9:30:29 PM I know lots of men whose idea of a good time is to permanently have promiscuous sex with m.....
» 1/05/2010 9:14:35 PM Proxy The idea of having sex with animals completely disgusts me, as it does most people. .....
» 1/05/2010 7:49:15 PM What gives rise to the consumption and profits you despise is the actions of the masses of.....
» 1/05/2010 7:42:41 PM mikk Unfortunately for you, in the democratic system, whether the majority want something .....
» 30/04/2010 9:17:48 PM qanda You've got the onus of proof back to front. The entire warmist belief system depe.....
» 30/04/2010 8:57:10 PM Wow, ad hominem argument and appeal to absent authority from a global warmist - how amazin.....
» 30/04/2010 3:44:49 PM "At least 30 years is required to validate this climate trend - separating the signal.....
» 30/04/2010 2:40:56 PM "Apparently the precautionary principle doesn't apply in global heating denier circle.....
» 30/04/2010 2:29:23 PM Obviously there can be no objective comparison without a lowest common denominator. The .....
» 30/04/2010 1:52:32 PM In general, other things being equal, a woman has more to gain by a monogamous strategy th.....
» 30/04/2010 1:49:20 PM "Does love have a biological basis?" As opposed to what? The problem with the.....
» 30/04/2010 12:04:48 PM "One of the first full econometric analyses of the EU ETS found it did significantly .....
» 30/04/2010 11:01:34 AM “It is small wonder then that local and international environmental groups have initiated .....
» 30/04/2010 9:52:17 AM The sky is falling, the sky is falling. Everyone should be forced to wear sack-cloth and a.....
» 30/04/2010 9:47:23 AM Perhaps Kevin Rudd has adopted the Taoist maxim for government :'masterful inactivity. &.....
» 29/04/2010 4:53:18 PM "Nike workers in Thailand wrote to Woods, expressing their “utmost respect for your s.....
» 29/04/2010 4:03:32 PM The whole point of fighting for our freedom from fascists was so we *don’t* have fascist g.....
» 29/04/2010 4:03:02 PM The problem I have with Anzac Day is that it doesn’t distinguish between good wars and bad.....
» 28/04/2010 3:54:32 PM Nice try Aka but unfortunately it's those *in favour of* racially discriminatory treatment.....
» 28/04/2010 10:36:24 AM Spare a thought for the *soldiers* killed and wounded? At least they volunteered to go, an.....
» 28/04/2010 10:13:22 AM “Involving the Indigenous community is vital to ensure Aboriginal children can remain in t.....
» 27/04/2010 3:42:17 PM Good call, you are right. Much of the regulations do not add anything to safety. They me.....
» 27/04/2010 1:53:15 PM mikk Is that bitter and passionate diatribe the best you can do? How about turning your mi.....
» 27/04/2010 10:37:55 AM What is 'substantive equality'? Are we all going to have equal height and weight, with equ.....
» 26/04/2010 8:09:49 PM Fourthly, many psychologists have a very bad habit of positing theories of the human mind .....
» 26/04/2010 7:59:49 PM Squeer I don’t see why it’s heretical to say that humans are by nature not perfectly monog.....
» 26/04/2010 11:11:58 AM Pynchme Rape is already illegal. The considerations you raise are all valid, however they .....
» 25/04/2010 12:37:22 PM The rule should be that all exchanges and transactions must be voluntary. There should be .....
» 25/04/2010 12:33:43 PM CJ The original condition must have been ignorance of paternity, which we shared with othe.....
» 24/04/2010 9:01:41 PM Reminds me of the one about the happy couple going to hospital to have the baby. “Wonderfu.....
» 24/04/2010 8:53:50 PM Pat Just because what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, doesn’t mean each wife .....
» 24/04/2010 5:08:41 PM JamesH > "[Abolishing government intervention in health care services] would see t.....
» 24/04/2010 3:50:10 PM Bill25 Yes I think there's something to that. Polygamy is unpopular in an egalitarian age,.....
» 24/04/2010 1:16:51 AM The man and woman form the smallest division of labour, a little private mutual-benefit as.....
» 24/04/2010 1:11:29 AM Pelican >But what about love in all this? Good question. The natural history of lo.....
» 23/04/2010 12:45:32 PM People are confused by smoke and mirrors if they think that creating a big mega-bureaucrac.....
» 23/04/2010 12:11:47 PM Oh good, the central banks only created $1 trillion so as to 'provide liquidity' for gover.....
» 23/04/2010 10:23:37 AM In return she undertook to look after him and provide sexual services on demand - hence th.....
» 23/04/2010 10:16:23 AM Those who say that marriage exploits women are failing to consider the position of women i.....
» 21/04/2010 5:36:58 PM "My question is - is monogamy natural? Why or why not?" Good question. Answer.....
» 20/04/2010 3:55:44 PM According to Pericles upside-down and back-the-front logic, when the American government m.....
» 19/04/2010 3:19:27 PM "[W]e are seeing a true political revolution. No sitting House member in American his.....
» 19/04/2010 3:16:17 PM Good thinking. Since over 150 million people have died in the last 100 years from people a.....
» 12/04/2010 2:46:34 PM As I understand it, the recent electricity price rises in NSW are to pay to update dated i.....
» 9/04/2010 2:27:21 PM Cornflower "Since then the value has merely tracked inflation as all real estate does.....
» 9/04/2010 2:20:32 PM Yes and what is more, who will dare to claim that Barry O'Farrell is as pretty as Kristina.....
» 8/04/2010 9:39:13 AM Very interesting article. In a nutshell, Labor is far superior in the organisation of para.....
» 7/04/2010 4:43:36 PM And the reverse in the case of a loss: the entrepreneur has devoted scarce factors of prod.....
» 7/04/2010 4:41:08 PM Interesting article. I will take up the challenge of answering your questions. Firstly ‘t.....
» 7/04/2010 4:04:59 PM John Tons You do realise, don't you, that growing one's own food, making one's own house, .....
» 7/04/2010 12:43:14 PM Jasper Lower than what?.....
» 7/04/2010 12:41:40 PM Interesting article. Could you please refer us to Tolstoy's accounts that you mention. .....
» 7/04/2010 10:33:13 AM Grim Do you deny that the price of milk is regulated by the NSW government? Do you deny t.....
» 7/04/2010 9:58:42 AM Protagoras How come people couldn't sue the polluters for their torts and crimes in Austra.....
» 6/04/2010 10:36:58 AM >So how can this problem of trust be overcome? How about some personal accountability.....
» 6/04/2010 10:21:54 AM Ein Folk, Ein Ecosystem, Ein Fuhrer. If national governments are not up to the challenge .....
» 5/04/2010 10:31:23 PM The USA government currently takes about 50 percent of the GDP of that country. Similarly,.....
» 5/04/2010 10:25:41 PM Rapscallion You are only demonstrating that misrepresentation satisfies your intellectual .....
» 5/04/2010 5:47:02 PM But if the parties met as equals, they could obtain no advantage from an exchange, and wou.....
» 5/04/2010 5:42:54 PM Cameron What would be an example of a relevant issue that does not boil down to the fact o.....
» 4/04/2010 11:37:32 AM And now the welfare statists use essentially the same arguments as the pro-slavers: that t.....
» 4/04/2010 11:27:21 AM Grim So you, and everyone else in Australia, would be materially better off, or now worse .....
» 4/04/2010 4:00:05 AM > Should a rational measure of standard of living include keeping up with, and beating .....
» 4/04/2010 3:56:46 AM > The simple rationale for a growth economy is that a vast portion of humanity lives an.....
» 1/04/2010 10:48:08 AM All the author’s concerns boil down to no more than the fact that resources are scarce. .....
» 30/03/2010 12:40:06 PM rtuart You haven't given any reason why the balance between different competing values or .....
» 29/03/2010 3:30:44 PM rstuart How do you propose to get the balance right? And what is the balance between?.....
» 26/03/2010 12:17:36 PM Oh sorry, right you are......
» 26/03/2010 11:03:26 AM Interesting article. (Singular of labiae is labia.).....
» 24/03/2010 8:59:09 AM Kellie Since science does not supply value judgments, and since policy requires them, ther.....
» 23/03/2010 3:32:47 PM David Surely the whole point about race being an irrelevant consideration is that it's irr.....
» 23/03/2010 2:16:28 PM Leigh "and it's now OK for it's Democrat leader, who can't close Gitmo, get out of Ir.....
» 22/03/2010 9:10:45 AM It's no use blaming it on Bush any more. He's not the commander-in-chief of the forces tha.....
» 19/03/2010 2:38:56 PM Geoff Davies is right; the discussion will flounder without agreeing to definitions of ter.....
» 19/03/2010 9:59:12 AM Far too much of everybody else, and just enough of you eh Tim?.....
» 19/03/2010 9:33:42 AM Pericles By money substitutes I mean any token standing for money but not backed by money .....
» 18/03/2010 4:00:49 PM "If it's not decided at the collective level then it must be decided at the individua.....
» 18/03/2010 3:50:24 PM "The Gospels and Tacitus and Josephus are all hearsay. There’s a reason hearsay is re.....
» 18/03/2010 3:41:18 PM You can drive a car without a licence, you're just not allowed to. But you can't practise .....
» 18/03/2010 3:21:02 PM So do you think we could dispense with interest altogether then?.....
» 18/03/2010 1:59:59 PM > I personally believe we will only escape when we can establish objective measures fre.....
» 18/03/2010 1:47:13 PM Fickle If we can get rid of the cost of money to build new community infrastructure, why n.....
» 16/03/2010 3:54:10 PM My point was that, although we are having a collective impact, the relevant decision-makin.....
» 16/03/2010 2:32:58 PM Thinkabit "If you prefer to form your world view from children's books then perhaps t.....
» 16/03/2010 2:00:58 PM Okay, now considering that there are six billion people, and each one is making multiple r.....
» 16/03/2010 1:48:04 PM More quotes: “Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible proposi.....
» 16/03/2010 10:52:02 AM Runner That reminds me of someone who suggested to the biologist J.B.S. Haldane that he be.....
» 16/03/2010 10:37:02 AM Pericle >Why do you ask? To see whether you are in favour of licences to print money s.....
» 16/03/2010 10:32:09 AM Geoffc When I studied ecology, they taught us that for an animal or plant to 'use' or to '.....
» 16/03/2010 9:27:07 AM Pericles So are you in favour of fractional reserve banking, or against it?.....
» 15/03/2010 3:12:47 PM Grey The 'super-majority' are no more agreed on the existence of God than the atheists are.....
» 15/03/2010 3:01:30 PM The author does not give any reason why a republic would be better than the status quo. .....
» 15/03/2010 2:27:49 PM The fact that Obama *doesn't* stop following Bush's line doesn't mean he *can't*. Take Ira.....
» 15/03/2010 1:16:32 PM Grey "Dawkins has faith that no-one can have warranted belief in God...so he is claim.....
» 15/03/2010 12:53:58 PM People say it’s better to be divorced than living together unhappily. That may be true, bu.....
» 15/03/2010 12:29:43 PM What would be the difference between using a resource and exploiting it?.....
» 15/03/2010 12:26:44 PM Pericles I thought you were in favour of licences to print money? Changed your mind? For.....
» 15/03/2010 10:29:02 AM I don’t understand what you mean by a minority who know what’s good for humanity. Who woul.....
» 15/03/2010 9:05:56 AM "impossible to conclusively prove there is no God, just as atheists assert that no on.....
» 14/03/2010 2:22:38 AM geoffc The fact that people have a collective impact is not itself the issue. The issue in.....
» 13/03/2010 9:40:01 AM Yabby In other words, if you print money or money substitutes, but leave it in the cupboa.....
» 12/03/2010 1:47:48 PM "My 13 year old daughter knows just who the sluts are at her school, and she was mort.....
» 12/03/2010 9:45:31 AM geoffc "The species" is not a decision-making entity......
» 11/03/2010 9:41:39 PM Yabby In other words, if you print money or money substitutes, but leave it in the cupboa.....
» 11/03/2010 8:45:40 PM Unless you can show how stamping paper creates real wealth, then you *are* too stupid to u.....
» 11/03/2010 7:41:22 PM Sorry that should be: "...or affirms that we *can* make something out of nothing and .....
» 11/03/2010 6:34:56 PM Qanda Wouldn’t it be great if it was just a matter of opinion whether we could make someth.....
» 11/03/2010 3:29:43 PM Ozandy They can't even instal pink batts without killing people, burning down houses, and .....
» 11/03/2010 3:26:09 PM Yes, I also worry about the rights of plants. I remember seeing a documentary once in whic.....
» 11/03/2010 2:22:58 PM "No-one will ever win the battle of the sexes while there is so much fraternising wit.....
» 11/03/2010 2:00:57 PM They remind me of the tribal Aborigines who believed that by rubbing a shell they could ma.....
» 11/03/2010 1:59:57 PM Yabby and Pericles Well if what you are both saying is true,then why not just keep printin.....
» 10/03/2010 8:22:49 PM Pericles: You, not I, have continued to reckon the value of gold *by way of* fiat money pr.....
» 10/03/2010 3:28:29 PM 'they declare their own crimes to be illegal; ' (legal I meant).....
» 10/03/2010 2:57:23 PM Pericles, you need to compare the change of value of gold in real terms, not paper terms, .....
» 10/03/2010 2:48:03 PM Yabby and Pericles Unless someone can first show that increasing the money supply creates .....
» 10/03/2010 10:54:51 AM The author's collectivist approach involves fallacy for a number of reasons. For example:.....
» 9/03/2010 4:55:06 PM (This spreads both inflation and confusion, causing the population to think of worthless p.....
» 9/03/2010 4:51:22 PM I maintain that that line of reasoning is wrong. It results not in providing huge economic.....
» 9/03/2010 10:40:26 AM > In what sense do you equate increasing the money supply with taxation? Both involve.....
» 9/03/2010 10:34:59 AM Yabby What you say goes only to the question of store of value. The effect of increasing.....
» 8/03/2010 8:58:40 PM The primary function of money is as a medium of exchange. All other monetary functions are.....
» 8/03/2010 8:44:09 PM Back to your dirty tricks and evasions Pericles? You answered Arjay with irrelevant fallac.....
» 8/03/2010 2:11:52 PM Yes that's largely true. But I think money is still the only legal tender for payment of.....
» 8/03/2010 10:40:25 AM >Peter Hume come you do don't you? know that interest rates of around 3% are the profit.....
» 7/03/2010 11:06:14 PM Rapscallion If we take away your mind-reading, misrepresentation, evasion, and assuming wh.....
» 7/03/2010 10:04:35 PM Arjay "Do we go back to gold and silver as being the basis of our currencies?" .....
» 7/03/2010 5:25:26 PM Yabby, Belly You seem to think governments can inflate indefinitely?.....
» 7/03/2010 12:32:12 PM Interest rates are also market phenomena. They represent people’s valuation of present ver.....
» 7/03/2010 12:10:29 PM Arjay "The creation of money should be in the control of sovereign Govts,after all .....
» 7/03/2010 11:29:38 AM Spencer’s evidence was executive instruments, i.e. orders, signed by PM Howard. But the Hi.....
» 7/03/2010 11:27:24 AM "It is surprising that more people don't utilise the Consitution in legal cases again.....
» 7/03/2010 12:04:20 AM Gypsy, I'll tell you something I've learnt about the Constitution. All written constitut.....
» 6/03/2010 11:36:49 PM Arjay I don't think there are any politicians who understand it. They are pretty much all .....
» 6/03/2010 11:28:07 PM Leigh "We do not ‘have to’ import another 20 million people to a country which is mos.....
» 6/03/2010 8:00:02 PM briar Oh okay......
» 5/03/2010 3:55:45 PM rpg "bushbasher,of course we have a choice, the choice not to make stupid decisions.&.....
» 5/03/2010 3:52:50 PM Qanda I am not clear what you are saying, and not sure whether you are arguing as warmist .....
» 5/03/2010 11:26:41 AM Bonnie Perhaps they should eat less?.....
» 5/03/2010 11:01:13 AM You are right Shazbaz. When I consider that people acting on socialist political opinion h.....
» 5/03/2010 8:57:33 AM “While “politics” refers to the totality of interrelationships in a particular area of lif.....
» 4/03/2010 8:14:50 PM Just because people harm themselves, does not make it a national problem. What is lost i.....
» 4/03/2010 8:02:12 PM Rapscallion 1. The fact is, you want to stop people from making certain communications be.....
» 3/03/2010 8:10:32 PM That’s just in theory. In practice the politics will degenerate into the most protean and .....
» 3/03/2010 8:06:47 PM A good question, what evidence would it take to convince one that human activity is causin.....
» 3/03/2010 1:26:28 PM The issue is not what it is, but what it should be. Your comment makes no more sense than .....
» 3/03/2010 3:57:56 AM And *how* would we decide what is the appropriate – moral - level of consumption that is t.....
» 3/03/2010 3:47:47 AM Honestly, it’s like talking to a pack of sniveling children. The basic premise underlyin.....
» 2/03/2010 1:50:49 PM Houllebecq I think politically it would be a can of worms any way. The main thing is that .....
» 2/03/2010 11:56:45 AM Satisfied yourself with that spiteful ventilation of spleen have you? The social Darwini.....
» 2/03/2010 11:28:42 AM The question is, what is the relevant state of maturity? - which *no-one* is able to speci.....
» 2/03/2010 11:26:24 AM Suzieonline "Peter Hume, this thread is about marriage and commitment. How did you ma.....
» 1/03/2010 12:06:43 PM W.A.U. No-one is defending paedophilia. But paedophilia doesn't mean under-age sex. It mea.....
» 1/03/2010 11:48:41 AM >One of Sarah's points is factual and clear to any parent who loves and cares for their.....
» 1/03/2010 11:39:52 AM >You labelled myself and others "middle aged matrons". That is 'personal argu.....
» 28/02/2010 10:17:30 PM A very common pattern throughout the world in history and anthropology is men going on rai.....
» 28/02/2010 9:33:51 PM (cont.) as they please, free of interference from government imposing a ‘one-size-fits-al.....
» 28/02/2010 9:25:56 PM Phanto, yes the laws on relationships are a mess, and Cornflower yes legalising gay marria.....
» 28/02/2010 9:25:31 PM Hypocritical, because you don’t practise what you preach. You criticize others for consumi.....
» 28/02/2010 8:16:10 PM W.A.U. Parents, their offspring and their offsprings’ sexual partners have conflicting int.....
» 27/02/2010 10:03:40 PM It goes without saying that everyone else wouldn’t know what they want or need; no need to.....
» 27/02/2010 9:59:58 PM When Sarah Burnside consumes things, that’s fine, but when other people consume things, it.....
» 27/02/2010 6:46:37 PM Cornflower is right. It's a bad idea. Those in favour of it don't propose to spend their o.....
» 26/02/2010 3:38:38 PM I've got a great idea. Why don't Simon Whipp and all the members of Actors Equity put up *.....
» 26/02/2010 11:18:58 AM vanna That's right. The government spends billions on child protection bureaucracies while.....
» 26/02/2010 11:05:35 AM Oh yeah, and "Pauline Cat" (that was a married name, and so, self-inflicted)......
» 26/02/2010 11:04:34 AM These have I known (or known of): 'Dwayne Pipe' 'Mayhem' 'Ned Kelly'.....
» 26/02/2010 10:47:04 AM I completely agree with you that people's private consensual sexual relationships are none.....
» 25/02/2010 10:14:53 AM Aka Your argument is back-the-front, and going in a circle. We don’t start from the positi.....
» 24/02/2010 8:53:37 PM Why should OLO be made more welcoming to women?.....
» 24/02/2010 8:45:23 PM "It is just rubbish that if a girl begins menstruation or a boy gets hair under his a.....
» 24/02/2010 2:01:05 PM If the age of consent were 12, you might have an argument. Spurious passionate hateful e.....
» 23/02/2010 11:11:07 PM StG I think there are a number of issues intertwined. Belief in the afterlife is probabl.....
» 23/02/2010 7:26:49 PM You should start a separate thread about feminism: perhaps one with a clear issue? By ta.....
» 23/02/2010 6:56:20 PM There are a number of problems with discussing human sexuality on the basis that someone w.....
» 22/02/2010 2:58:55 PM All your arguments resolve into: a) assuming what is in issue; b) personal argument; and a.....
» 22/02/2010 1:52:15 PM Ludwig What policies would you like to see?.....
» 19/02/2010 8:34:17 AM Are you defining as a "child" anyone who is under 18? 16? If so, is your conce.....
» 18/02/2010 2:47:29 PM examinator They are questions, not argument. Your misrepresentation is a manipulation te.....
» 18/02/2010 11:23:55 AM Capitalism - as opposed to what? A society in which private ownership of the tools and mea.....
» 17/02/2010 2:49:08 PM Yes, good on you Nina, what an insult from the social-engineer-in-chief. It is absolutely .....
» 16/02/2010 10:54:17 AM Contrary to popular belief, the word 'democracy' is not mentioned anywhere in the U.S. Dec.....
» 16/02/2010 2:43:38 AM If we had done that, we would have starved to death by the millions. The reason we know th.....
» 16/02/2010 2:39:54 AM Even if we assume AGW is real, it still doesn’t follow that political action is warranted .....
» 15/02/2010 11:32:20 AM Raycom has it in a nutshell. If the purpose is to create "jobs" why not abolis.....
» 15/02/2010 10:05:44 AM Very funny article: total confusion in the feminist camp over whether to regard sex as sex.....
» 15/02/2010 9:48:31 AM The government's job is to remove all risk whatsoever. Since getting out of bed involves r.....
» 13/02/2010 1:31:36 PM Even assuming AGW, the AGW camp have not even begun to explain or justify what reason ther.....
» 13/02/2010 1:15:58 PM Rstuart People want to eat bread or drive cars. They don’t want “permits”. The only reason.....
» 12/02/2010 2:29:57 PM The problem with Jews and Christians who believe in evolution is that the theory is incons.....
» 12/02/2010 9:19:27 AM Someone who would not otherwise have existed might think it better to have been brought in.....
» 10/02/2010 8:11:04 AM Examinator Good question but best for a separate thread I would think. But for here, obvi.....
» 9/02/2010 4:25:35 PM You seem to be under the impression that trying to throw up a smokescreen of irrelevance a.....
» 9/02/2010 3:23:51 PM Belly "...our funds are safe but not if in the hands of people who are not accountabl.....
» 9/02/2010 2:12:55 PM Rstuart Centralised price-fixing, trading tax receipts and capital consumption are the opp.....
» 8/02/2010 5:05:00 PM "In the current financial situation, why aren't governments doing more to keep these .....
» 8/02/2010 3:41:23 PM rstuart Yes they are both absurd and disgusting. However it's not correct to call Labor'.....
» 8/02/2010 8:56:47 AM Nobody's suggesting the old or poor should be left to rot - an absurd hysteria. Belly is.....
» 5/02/2010 4:59:01 PM "BTW Show me any major Corporation who doesn't behave like a sociopath?" Includi.....
» 5/02/2010 11:19:39 AM "There’s a natural source for government revenue, fellas! Try publicly-generated land.....
» 5/02/2010 10:20:26 AM Firstly we need to understand that the belief in policy action because of man-made global .....
» 4/02/2010 1:16:16 PM It's not a double standard, because the sexes are not the same nor equal, least of all in .....
» 3/02/2010 2:55:35 PM The author's conclusion depends on the idea that China's producing goods to satisfy human .....
» 3/02/2010 2:03:09 PM "Casual sex is a shallow and meaningless experience, but as far as shallow and meanin.....
» 1/02/2010 10:12:34 AM If you, who have spent your professional life assessing capital ventures, don’t know how t.....
» 1/02/2010 10:11:26 AM All government can do to promote entrepreneurship is protect private property rights, and .....
» 29/01/2010 2:35:56 PM examinator You haven't given any reason for policy action, any reason to think that the ad.....
» 29/01/2010 10:42:28 AM runner Can you honestly say that the following method is scientific: see complex phenomeno.....
» 29/01/2010 10:12:14 AM I don't know why the atheists declined to debate the creationists. Perhaps it would be int.....
» 29/01/2010 9:07:34 AM Interesting article. Your six points seem to me a bit eclectic, and don't sufficiently dis.....
» 29/01/2010 8:15:28 AM If government funding it necessary to make it economical, isn't that just another way of s.....
» 27/01/2010 1:49:09 PM Examinator Who's "we"?.....
» 20/01/2010 2:08:13 PM Everyone supports spending other people's money, don't they? Here's a great idea for the a.....
» 31/12/2009 2:33:29 PM Jedimaster "in one group are about 100,000 scientists trying to exercise their craft .....
» 30/12/2009 4:05:09 PM The Gumment: “King Hazza, notwithstanding thy royal styles and titles, we are going to tak.....
» 24/12/2009 12:45:12 PM Perhaps the most damning thing about the Copenhagen flop is that it didn't flop because of.....
» 23/12/2009 10:26:32 AM Lowering interest rates in effect tells the borrowers of money that the lender is prepared.....
» 23/12/2009 10:25:08 AM The ancient authors including in the Bible and Aristotle, looked askance on debt, and espe.....
» 23/12/2009 9:57:25 AM Maralinga is hardly an advertisement for government management of the environment, is it? .....
» 18/12/2009 8:39:50 AM The climate is changing, quick, throw another virgin into the volcano! The globe is cooli.....
» 11/12/2009 6:01:41 PM It is common ground that the globe has been cooling since 1998. That’s why they changed th.....
» 11/12/2009 3:24:54 PM Ludwig Just as a matter of curiosity, what would you see as being the ideal result of your.....
» 11/12/2009 2:20:52 PM We have only to look at the U.S. and the Australian Constitutions, and compare the limited.....
» 11/12/2009 2:20:15 PM WTF Certainly sounds simpler and easier than what we’ve got. Individual I was responding.....
» 10/12/2009 2:12:46 PM "A Dr friend has never had a holiday, He has seminars." Of course he does. In e.....
» 10/12/2009 11:47:23 AM Government should tax the rich and send everyone in the community a cheque for a million d.....
» 10/12/2009 11:44:08 AM Jayb I am all in favour of simplification but wouldn't the scheme you suggest have the fol.....
» 10/12/2009 10:08:08 AM If the underlying theory is illogical then the assessment of evidence will be wrong. The i.....
» 10/12/2009 10:06:37 AM Pericles Do you have to be so belligerent and insulting? I also could be insulting to you,.....
» 9/12/2009 12:28:55 PM There are two issues. Clearly the current system, of voting via 'representatives', is not.....
» 9/12/2009 11:49:48 AM "...people who cling to the notion that any change is bad." Gee that's a bit ri.....
» 9/12/2009 9:46:28 AM “My argument, in a single sentence, is that communities everywhere are prepared to forego .....
» 9/12/2009 9:43:40 AM Pericles What you are referring to by ‘the community’ is *the electorate*. But there are t.....
» 8/12/2009 2:42:22 PM mkk Ho hum, labour theory of value, perhaps if you keep repeating fallacies they will beco.....
» 8/12/2009 12:45:03 PM Oscar Pelican is right in this: It wouldn't matter who you put in. The problem is not in.....
» 8/12/2009 11:23:11 AM …doing it by way of confiscations and government bureaucracy will produce less waste, vest.....
» 8/12/2009 11:20:35 AM 1. My unclarity. By not enforcing, I meant the court, seeing the parties contracted to co.....
» 7/12/2009 3:48:57 PM Pericles You are missing the point, which is, that the current ‘representative’ democracy .....
» 7/12/2009 3:31:46 PM There is not the slightest reason or evidence to think that sustainability is more achieva.....
» 7/12/2009 2:20:47 PM The author has not established how tax is or could be just in the first place. “If taxat.....
» 7/12/2009 1:41:36 PM Pelican I think everyone is frustrated by their views not being represented as much as the.....
» 7/12/2009 11:35:55 AM Thomas “We’re talking about a country that was INVADED by the English.” I know we are but.....
» 6/12/2009 8:31:25 PM What’s so repugnant about saying “there was and is no sovereign to enter into a treaty wit.....
» 6/12/2009 8:22:51 PM ...general is that the courts will not enforce contracts agreeing for such dispute resolut.....
» 6/12/2009 8:19:56 PM I think the idea that the poor, hungry and sick would just die on the streets in the absen.....
» 6/12/2009 10:29:08 AM A treaty is an agreement between two sovereigns or sovereign powers. The big problem with .....
» 6/12/2009 10:11:43 AM This article fails the first test of any proposal to make tax more fair and consistent wit.....
» 6/12/2009 8:46:07 AM Yes the High Court has tied itself in knots over the past 100 years trying to figure out w.....
» 5/12/2009 9:00:30 PM Ludwig Section 92 of the Australian Constitution says '... trade, commerce and intercourse.....
» 5/12/2009 8:50:54 PM Examinator Yes there would need to be some public provision to enable everyone to access t.....
» 5/12/2009 8:21:32 PM ...doctor is better than a nurse, but does that justify preventing you from consulting an .....
» 5/12/2009 8:20:24 PM Pericles The structure of your argument is “The government does it because it’s good, and .....
» 5/12/2009 12:43:40 PM I agree with Ludwig. As the entire site is devoted to opinionated people, it doesn't bot.....
» 5/12/2009 1:22:14 AM Pericles You obviously have no idea what it was like to try to find and up-date the law n.....
» 4/12/2009 8:50:13 PM (cont.) the US health market is more heavily regulated than other countries’. Secondly, .....
» 4/12/2009 8:45:56 PM Rstuart I think he's distinguishing between ‘routine’ i.e. ordinary costs – like a GP visi.....
» 4/12/2009 8:26:02 PM Pericles “Men are the steakholders. Women are in charge of the salad.” LOL. Yes, anyone.....
» 3/12/2009 8:42:04 PM I think the interesting thing that religion shows, is that mankind are capable of believin.....
» 3/12/2009 7:42:15 PM Pericles Assuming your good faith, your argument is so circular that I can’t see how you c.....
» 3/12/2009 1:44:53 PM Pericles "With better management in the public arena, there is no reason why a balanc.....
» 3/12/2009 1:04:31 PM (cont.) ...or they would collapse; and so would the whole economy, leaving government not.....
» 3/12/2009 1:01:41 PM It is not the opponents, but the proponents of taxation who appeal to the ‘law of the jung.....
» 3/12/2009 12:53:48 PM "The plan to withhold Centrelink payments in the NT is an expensive piece of social e.....
» 2/12/2009 12:44:00 PM need for taxation to fund them, and if they don’t, then the government is not being repres.....
» 2/12/2009 12:42:41 PM 1. The author’s article is about making tax more fair and equitable, but she fails to esta.....
» 1/12/2009 1:48:45 PM Since the whole point of a republic is to express and manifest sovereignty as coming from .....
» 1/12/2009 10:57:35 AM Lindsay Tanner, like a typical politicians, seems confused, or doesn't care, whether Austr.....
» 1/12/2009 9:59:18 AM Grim I'm glad to see you make this comment, and I agree. It's far too easy, isn't it, to c.....
» 30/11/2009 9:07:06 PM And a coercion-based monopoly would be better at providing services because…? Because the .....
» 30/11/2009 8:56:41 PM Pericles “Anyone been to Sydney Airport recently? [etc] …” Are you really not understand.....
» 30/11/2009 7:17:40 PM McHena "f we want our civilisation to carry on for the foreseable future we are going.....
» 30/11/2009 1:16:38 PM 'They know about the science..." Oh, so they know the globe is not warming, do they?.....
» 27/11/2009 9:12:58 AM Shadow Minister "The only restriction is that what he/she does, does not negatively i.....
» 27/11/2009 8:52:19 AM I once knew a woman who told me she was raped when she was seventeen by her boyfriend. &.....
» 24/11/2009 8:47:28 PM Vanna - sorry this post should precede that last one: I don't think there's any doubt tha.....
» 24/11/2009 8:44:52 PM Suppose masculinist propagandists were to be appointed to ‘compensate’ for the effects of .....
» 24/11/2009 2:44:26 PM Arjay I totally agree with you that we need a libertarian movement here. Australians have .....
» 23/11/2009 7:37:41 PM Houellebecq "Well, I don't know about you, but I have an 'interest' in looking after .....
» 23/11/2009 7:19:34 PM Ludwig The restrainer on curtailing numbers for the on-shore refugee program is in the 195.....
» 23/11/2009 9:52:01 AM (cont.) voting once every three years and under compulsion; no law against politicians lyi.....
» 23/11/2009 9:49:54 AM All the arguments for intervention display a double standard. Grim wants to police banki.....
» 20/11/2009 8:50:52 PM "No-one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there's so much fraternising w.....
» 20/11/2009 7:19:48 PM David I don't see how you can say JP is drawing a long bow to accuse the authors of being .....
» 20/11/2009 1:24:02 PM "Lenders of money have been held in odium, at all times and among all peoples" M.....
» 20/11/2009 1:14:13 PM It seems unclear whether the author is criticising competition, or the lack of it; regulat.....
» 19/11/2009 7:05:00 PM "For the record: I think the Venezuelan people should go far further than Chavez is l.....
» 19/11/2009 5:38:36 PM "It is government responsibility to manage the environment and assist suffering impac.....
» 19/11/2009 3:44:37 PM Ken McKay warns against treating the symptoms instead of the disease and then proceeds to .....
» 19/11/2009 1:04:21 PM We are destroying the planet, there isn't going to be anything left for our grandchildren,.....
» 19/11/2009 4:35:13 AM JF Aus Declining fish stocks are causing coups? What, are they jumping up onto land and ho.....
» 18/11/2009 8:30:24 AM The author's article is based in the idea that "land grabs" are a bad thing, but.....
» 17/11/2009 7:42:26 PM Alistair If the majority vote for a crime, does that make it okay? Is a right whatever the.....
» 16/11/2009 1:32:57 PM The globe isn't warming, fool, it's cooling. All the models touted by the UN got it wron.....
» 15/11/2009 7:07:23 PM Cathy Where does the Constitution give power to the Australian government to make laws on .....
» 15/11/2009 5:59:41 PM mikk What criterion are you using to decide whether something is more efficient or sociall.....
» 15/11/2009 5:37:34 PM However the reason ‘rights’ come into the discussion is because some people who are in fav.....
» 15/11/2009 5:34:04 PM Yes suzieonline, you are right. There is no point endlessly rehashing the standard argumen.....
» 14/11/2009 10:29:23 AM Thus for every bureaucracy, compliance with form and process is necessarily the primary va.....
» 14/11/2009 10:22:21 AM "Would it be viable for governments to be run as a business, rather than run by burea.....
» 14/11/2009 8:33:06 AM Is there official discrimination between Jews and non-Jews in Israel? I didn't know. What .....
» 13/11/2009 9:51:48 AM mikk You are making the mistake of assuming, just because government provides a particula.....
» 12/11/2009 11:41:30 AM "But if governments could summon up the courage required to abandon a strategy that h.....
» 12/11/2009 9:00:32 AM PartTime Parent "When children live in households without BOTH NATURAL parents, the r.....
» 12/11/2009 8:51:08 AM I think we need more light and less heat in here. Perhaps we should define our terms? Th.....
» 12/11/2009 8:23:44 AM I find it hard to believe that anyone can spout such utter nonsense. To start with, the .....
» 12/11/2009 8:14:40 AM Young people's employment prospects are hardest hit by government interventions that regar.....
» 9/11/2009 7:23:43 AM ‘…. "Buy the forests" … means that people have to buy their rights’ That assume.....
» 9/11/2009 7:20:37 AM Hazza Yes good points and these are very real issues. If rights mean nothing more than f.....
» 7/11/2009 10:29:06 PM Hazza I got cut off by the timer. It's you who are pretending you said something differe.....
» 7/11/2009 7:49:14 PM blair Why should they be the questions? Why not: - do you want to be able to vote, or no.....
» 7/11/2009 7:35:44 PM Hazza First we need to dispose of the theory that rights are whatever the state or the po.....
» 6/11/2009 8:43:48 PM Doc Holliday ...[Y]ou are quite correct: "a [legal] right is nothing more and nothing.....
» 6/11/2009 5:48:01 PM Amanda Congratulations on a well-written article. I'm sorry you are just going to have to .....
» 6/11/2009 8:13:12 AM The author gives no reason why a republic would be better in practice. The argument is tha.....
» 6/11/2009 7:56:43 AM The author has not given any reason for a policy response. The original problem is suppo.....
» 4/11/2009 8:17:40 PM Quite apart from their accountability to shareholders, private businesses are also far mor.....
» 4/11/2009 2:08:41 PM david f The fact that other people exist, and that we have to deal with them in order to a.....
» 4/11/2009 1:35:59 PM Interesting article and comments. It is not at all clear that the better approach to ado.....
» 2/11/2009 9:56:15 PM Kevin Rudd attributes to governments a capacity for knowledge and implementation that has .....
» 2/11/2009 7:03:00 PM Just because the *intent* of governmental interventions is to do good, it is not valid to .....
» 2/11/2009 7:00:28 PM The sign of an irrational belief is that it is unfalsifiable. I understand Marxist and Key.....
» 31/10/2009 8:45:13 PM Yes Peter, perhaps you could tell us how exactly governments are going to achieve these wo.....
» 31/10/2009 8:29:40 PM Tristan It is you who are considering economics out of context of its social consequences,.....
» 30/10/2009 3:28:01 PM People are so thoughtless. I cringe when I think of the gut bacteria that get exploited so.....
» 30/10/2009 1:49:46 PM What occupations in Australia do not require compulsory licensing, qualifications, registr.....
» 30/10/2009 1:42:58 PM ‘[Keynes] advocated the benefits of money circulating within the system, but nowhere sugge.....
» 29/10/2009 8:14:42 AM The interventionists having bashed voluntary contracts of employment into a shape they thi.....
» 29/10/2009 8:09:51 AM Pericles The interventionists never seem to reflect that there are more interventionists u.....
» 26/10/2009 9:20:45 AM Mikk Obviously indulging yourself in a fit of bitter invective has not helped you understa.....
» 26/10/2009 9:15:09 AM Well it's the world turned upside down, isn't it? It wasn't that long ago when the Chinese.....
» 25/10/2009 8:21:52 PM All “The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist als.....
» 25/10/2009 7:18:41 PM The arguments against privatisation are essentially of this form: 1. socialism has never w.....
» 23/10/2009 11:55:09 AM Tristan That is to re-state the original rationale for the stimulus policies. It appears y.....
» 23/10/2009 11:19:55 AM The distinction between asylum-seekers and economic refugees is a false dichotomy. Austr.....
» 23/10/2009 9:15:22 AM There is no reason for the left to support the war in Afghanistan, but all the morons atta.....
» 22/10/2009 4:33:12 PM The problem with the author's rejection of the devaluation of people with disabilities, is.....
» 22/10/2009 11:24:16 AM John Excellent article. I couldn't see how anyone could object to it, and then along came.....
» 22/10/2009 11:02:03 AM “What are we to make of the fact that the facts are so far out of whack with the theory th.....
» 22/10/2009 10:59:36 AM Arjay You need to understand that in Fozz’s theory, government is not revenue-constrained,.....
» 20/10/2009 10:16:49 PM Tristan "I accept that investment in infrastructure - in this case fibre-optic broadb.....
» 20/10/2009 9:51:54 PM Stezza The definition used in Australian law comes from the 1951 UN Convention on Refugee.....
» 20/10/2009 6:46:37 PM (cont.) What is your evidence that government represents the people more or better than th.....
» 20/10/2009 6:42:02 PM Grim “The only way to achieve a sustainable economy is for money to be reduced to a means.....
» 20/10/2009 5:52:01 PM Tristan Won't the government get the resources that it is to inject into the economy, by t.....
» 19/10/2009 12:59:11 PM Grim's grand theory: - the explanation of economic phenomena is that they are determined b.....
» 18/10/2009 8:54:43 AM "Bringing humanity into a sustainable existence is intimately related to world peace......
» 18/10/2009 8:41:07 AM Go Antiseptic. Suzie, paedophilia refers to a psychiatric condition in which a guy cannot .....
» 18/10/2009 8:26:42 AM Foxy, the fact remains that Obama is the biggest mass murderer in the world today. The f.....
» 17/10/2009 2:54:52 AM Mikk If it were really true that the value of capital comes from the value of all the labo.....
» 17/10/2009 2:51:54 AM The point is, the ethics of money production are central to the moral issues the author di.....
» 16/10/2009 4:14:01 PM "Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add t.....
» 15/10/2009 12:29:14 PM Ho hum... partisan politics, a fool's game for the masses http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs.....
» 15/10/2009 11:37:27 AM Too right. The same strangulation of voluntary interaction and productive activity is ha.....
» 15/10/2009 11:18:33 AM The traditional Aborigines, the Old Anglo-Saxons, the New Guinea Highlanders, and the Nuba.....
» 15/10/2009 11:08:47 AM Marx’s entire theory was that workers’ wages under capitalism would decline to subsistence.....
» 15/10/2009 11:07:31 AM The movement to sound money need not involve any more economic dislocation than is involve.....
» 12/10/2009 9:07:49 PM Government would have to pay for all its expenditures either by tax, or by borrowing. No m.....
» 12/10/2009 8:59:06 PM No-one is saying that people should not be able to lend or borrow money, nor that we shoul.....
» 11/10/2009 11:59:50 AM How would it work? People who want to marry should and need to be able to make binding set.....
» 11/10/2009 11:55:42 AM “Look, I don't really mind what people get up to in their private lives in their bedroom a.....
» 11/10/2009 10:04:24 AM mikk Well said: every word true. Now if you can just turn that same insight, that governm.....
» 11/10/2009 9:53:46 AM But certainly the government, the banksters, and the economists cannot be accused of assis.....
» 11/10/2009 9:44:55 AM Paul@Bathurst The most fundamental moral error is to confuse war with peace; rape with lov.....
» 9/10/2009 3:13:44 PM Yes, excellent article and excellent comments. However I don’t actually agree with them. .....
» 9/10/2009 10:18:27 AM "There is always resentment and rejection, and the perception that the husband has a .....
» 9/10/2009 9:26:10 AM Inflation takes from the productive and gives to the privileged. It causes money to lose i.....
» 9/10/2009 9:22:02 AM The author makes no connection between the Fed, fractional reserve banking, fiat money, an.....
» 8/10/2009 2:05:19 PM "If governments were really concerned with our health..." Well now you've dispr.....
» 8/10/2009 1:03:39 PM "I think it is about time we had a Commission of Inquiry into this..." Why only.....
» 7/10/2009 5:09:25 PM Mike You should have learnt the disproofs of your arguments in Economics 101. For starte.....
» 7/10/2009 4:41:57 PM Colin “ the resulting children need to be adequately fostered; from birth to the end of th.....
» 7/10/2009 2:57:22 PM Rape is already illegal, and marriage is by law defined as a voluntary union; and nobody i.....
» 2/10/2009 4:54:03 PM I find it amazing those someone who is thinking about this subject so much can have such a.....
» 2/10/2009 4:21:33 PM “But” the environmentalists might say, “We’re not talking about sustainability *indefinite.....
» 2/10/2009 4:20:20 PM Yabby What you say is true, and yes it is nonsense to talk of ‘biodiversity’ in dollar ter.....
» 1/10/2009 2:54:49 PM "Why is Peter Hume against the government imposing taxes, but (apparently) in favour .....
» 30/09/2009 2:05:27 PM Pelican 'Your faith in the market and faith that choice exists (in real terms) is admirabl.....
» 30/09/2009 10:02:02 AM Stop the world, I wanna get off! Obviously if you live in a city, you're not going to hav.....
» 30/09/2009 9:23:15 AM "You want to stabilise the financial sector? Bring back certainty to contract law.&qu.....
» 29/09/2009 8:44:55 PM "We must get back to the people through their elected representatives being in contro.....
» 28/09/2009 8:39:33 PM Pynchme "There is plenty of unpaid, and therefore untaxed, labour that makes it possi.....
» 28/09/2009 4:33:52 PM "...it might be our final chance to get it right." Yes you heard it folks, we'r.....
» 28/09/2009 4:19:39 PM “Present negotiating texts include radically different and mutually exclusive visions for .....
» 28/09/2009 3:14:13 PM The problem with the author’s, and with Malthus’s, God’s-eye view, is that this is not the.....
» 28/09/2009 3:12:55 PM The author’s article rests on differences between the market price and the asserted: a) ‘r.....
» 26/09/2009 11:48:29 PM "As much as you'd like them to be, physics and chemistry aren't political." I a.....
» 26/09/2009 10:03:38 PM Strip away the personal argumentation; the arbitrary time-frames; the mistaken idea that s.....
» 25/09/2009 11:01:36 AM The author shows the climatological incoherence underlying the carbon alarmism. In short, .....
» 25/09/2009 10:16:54 AM The problem with global warming is that we will all boil to death unless governments do so.....
» 24/09/2009 5:03:59 PM But Raycom, the fact that green policies may cause human disutility, suffering or death is.....
» 24/09/2009 3:43:07 PM mkk Fascist actually means those who are *in favour of* greater centralised government con.....
» 24/09/2009 2:39:19 PM Clearly human beings are a plague, governments represent super-human wisdom, people have n.....
» 23/09/2009 12:20:08 PM Pericles has hit the nail on the head. Since the entire justification for government in t.....
» 22/09/2009 9:36:04 PM However this does not in the least impair the usefulness of economic calculation. No calcu.....
» 22/09/2009 9:33:05 PM “The argument that 'renewables are subsidised and hence would otherwise operate at a loss'.....
» 22/09/2009 4:12:02 PM Chris expects an ongoing rise in the living standard, but doesn’t seem to understand that .....
» 21/09/2009 2:13:00 PM Sorry, when I say the author doesn't define green jobs, I mean, the author does not say *h.....
» 21/09/2009 2:10:50 PM The author does not define green jobs. He also does not distinguish between green jobs tha.....
» 18/09/2009 9:17:49 PM The silliness and vanity of the belief that we're all going to boil to death from global w.....
» 15/09/2009 9:44:13 PM Even if sex workers have asked the Scarlet Alliance to agitate for the policing of their s.....
» 15/09/2009 9:41:03 PM SJF Your arguments consist of misrepresentation, personality, mind-reading, projection, ev.....
» 15/09/2009 9:12:06 AM Good article. Yes the new Kindle technology is pretty mind-blowing. However I believe news.....
» 14/09/2009 4:08:32 PM An apalling serve of garbled crapola. Only Judaism and Islam qualify as monotheistic. Ch.....
» 14/09/2009 2:23:17 PM Diver Dan If we start with the facts, before getting into “depravity versus morality”, th.....
» 13/09/2009 10:28:01 PM This article is based on a religious superstition, namely, that the Reserve Bank is able t.....
» 13/09/2009 10:04:50 PM Pelican, why don't you simply live at a much lower standard of living? To start with, you .....
» 13/09/2009 9:07:08 PM "I'd say that these undocumented exchanges were a system of anecdotes invented for th.....
» 12/09/2009 10:08:30 PM The author doesn't say how he defines prostitution, and in particular how he distinguishes.....
» 7/09/2009 3:53:41 PM So now it's the job of the U.S. government to build infrastructure in Afghanistan to stop .....
» 7/09/2009 3:06:28 PM Tulipmania was a result of monetary policy, essentially the same as caused the GFC. In sho.....
» 7/09/2009 3:03:17 PM Grim “The CAUSE of the GFC was a bunch of ratbags manipulating a financial system in the a.....
» 5/09/2009 4:29:47 AM Grim If the state steps in to stop failing businesses from going broke, by taking money f.....
» 4/09/2009 4:36:43 PM SJF And presumably if a group of friends meet at a cafe for a chat, and one makes the othe.....
» 4/09/2009 4:03:30 PM Wow. Wotta list. Why wait til they're out of office to prosecute the bastards for high c.....
» 4/09/2009 1:12:25 PM Pericles’ post explicitly shows the unshakeable but false belief of the inflationists that.....
» 4/09/2009 11:55:22 AM A fascinating article. “Nonetheless, as scientists we must also promote more realistical.....
» 3/09/2009 9:03:50 PM Thank you. I could not have wanted a better demonstration that the arguments for governm.....
» 2/09/2009 8:32:33 PM The monetarists did not believe in the market determining the price of money. They thought.....
» 2/09/2009 4:51:49 PM "For every hundred hacking at the branches, there is only one striking the root.".....
» 1/09/2009 3:52:34 PM Seeker “How about making housekeepers more affordable?” Easy. Just abolish the single mot.....
» 31/08/2009 3:26:53 PM If we subtract from SJF's post her personal arguments, and her expectation that the outcom.....
» 31/08/2009 9:48:32 AM Your article depends on the concept 'hidden' unemployment, but you don't say what you mean.....
» 19/07/2009 10:57:34 AM This article assumes that there is an eternal fund of wealth belonging to someone else tha.....
» 19/07/2009 10:37:25 AM With the land example, remember that governments made it a condition of landholding for ma.....
» 19/07/2009 10:34:47 AM RobP That assumes that there is an inherent conflict between the interests of individuals .....
» 13/06/2009 6:55:48 PM then the environmentalists need to say *why not?*. But instead, they just ignore this ethi.....
» 13/06/2009 6:48:40 PM Coorangreeny So far as environmentalists are taking *voluntary* action, I have no problem .....
» 4/06/2009 11:13:16 PM Of course women being considered marriageable, starting their sex life at or around pubert.....
» 4/06/2009 11:07:28 PM “It was never a cultural trait to wilfully violate the innocence of our children or brutal.....
» 3/06/2009 9:23:50 PM The hoped-for grand international coalition of governments agreed on a necessary global wa.....
» 3/06/2009 4:25:45 PM Colinsett Who’s “we”? You presume to speak on behalf of everyone in the world do you, in.....
» 3/06/2009 2:31:08 PM It might help to to quote Ludwig von Mises, of the Austrian school of economics. JFAus “.....
» 31/05/2009 8:34:21 PM Floatinglilli That is true, but is not an argument in favour of government threatening to .....
» 31/05/2009 12:17:07 AM Fozz It is you who have completely failed to understand the modern monetary system. As p.....
» 13/03/2009 11:11:18 AM mac "do you think that, in aggregate, the costs of all the ill-conceived regulation s.....
» 13/03/2009 11:05:20 AM Ludwig "You mentioned one of the major obstacles in your last paragraph: the politica.....
» 13/03/2009 10:39:18 AM Governmental intervention is much more likely to exacerbate the original problem that the .....
» 13/03/2009 10:37:00 AM There are a number of problems with the author’s argument. The first is that, by refuting.....
» 13/03/2009 9:46:51 AM This is all very good as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough. There is no point.....
» 10/03/2009 12:37:16 PM Wow......
» 6/03/2009 2:39:49 PM Yes Rob very interesting, and examples could be multiplied by the thousand, perhaps hundre.....
» 3/03/2009 10:41:10 AM Philip Tang: http://mises.org/story/3355.....
» 27/02/2009 1:31:08 PM This is caused because government policies of money and banking protect banks from going b.....
» 27/02/2009 1:29:23 PM Grim The problem is not that Marx is a dirty word, it is that his theories are wrong. I.....
» 20/02/2009 1:01:25 PM One thing on which all parties are agreed is that trying to solve indigenous problems by p.....
» 18/02/2009 3:23:33 PM The bulkman Could you please render your objection in plain English? I can't understand w.....
» 18/02/2009 2:37:28 PM EQ "Darwin in his book tries to disprove his theory with various arguments and then c.....
» 3/02/2009 9:41:08 PM This is just a repeat of the rationale underlying the sub-prime bubble. It is more Keynesi.....
» 3/02/2009 9:32:28 PM Privileging fractional reserve banks from bankruptcy where they would otherwise be unable .....
» 3/02/2009 3:54:09 PM Yes bitey. Logically speaking, you might think that as we get older, we have less to lose,.....
» 3/02/2009 1:19:55 PM There should be no government bailouts and no government taking equity in private firms. .....
» 2/02/2009 4:06:40 PM Interesting post. Common experience tells us that human beings will believe just about an.....
» 2/02/2009 3:22:57 PM Even if it were a justification to steal from one who has more, to give to one who has les.....
» 2/02/2009 3:22:03 PM This looks suspiciously like a proposal to make something from nothing, to create real wea.....
» 2/02/2009 2:10:02 PM Good article. Yes it laughable to represent the Howard government as standing for small .....
» 27/01/2009 11:34:01 AM But that is exactly what the state destroys by taxation and inflation! The problem is fia.....
» 27/01/2009 11:32:55 AM Ken If we start with the wrong theory, we’ll end with the wrong conclusion. “If it was .....
» 25/01/2009 8:53:29 PM Ludwig The posts by Ericc and Pelican are perfect examples. They assume what is in issue, .....
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