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» 6/04/2017 9:42:46 PM 3. “Why should I prove them [possible objections to ‘man acts’] when I never claimed them.....
» 6/04/2017 9:42:07 PM 1. “When ABHF is derived from thinking about earlier assumptions, that instance of ABHF is.....
» 6/04/2017 9:14:21 PM Aidan You're STILL contradicting yourself at every turn. You're just going round and roun.....
» 6/04/2017 10:26:41 AM Gary, I think you deserve a medal for having the patience to read through such a load of i.....
» 4/04/2017 6:29:49 PM (cont.) Requires no proof. It doesn’t say it cannot be proved or cannot be rational. Co.....
» 4/04/2017 6:26:35 PM Yuyutsu 1. Isn’t that a contradiction? Here: “This example, "All birds have feathe.....
» 3/04/2017 1:35:58 PM Yuyutsu 1. “All birds have feathers” is rational in the sense that it posits a relation b.....
» 3/04/2017 2:32:01 AM Yuyutsu According to that doctrine, any proposition, no matter how dubious or downright u.....
» 2/04/2017 11:02:42 AM Honestly, Aidan, it's like drawing teeth. I asked whether *you consider* assault to be v.....
» 2/04/2017 10:43:09 AM AJ Interesting. I thought universities originated as places specifically to study the cr.....
» 1/04/2017 8:48:21 PM Do you think your equivocation and slimy evasiveness isn't obvious? You say that the gove.....
» 31/03/2017 10:37:04 PM If it were true that axioms cannot be rational, then there would be no necessary truth to .....
» 31/03/2017 10:36:06 PM Yuyutsu “As for "convincing", can over a billion people be convinced, yet you d.....
» 31/03/2017 1:37:28 AM Aidan So you have been contradicting yourself on this point since day one, and in all the.....
» 30/03/2017 6:31:19 PM Aidan So what's the answer to the question? Is assault violence or not violence?.....
» 30/03/2017 9:17:07 AM Aidan Thank you for that. "The government classify assault as violent. So do I. But.....
» 29/03/2017 10:01:15 PM ""Whether you regard assault as non-violent is irrelevant. The fact is, the gove.....
» 29/03/2017 9:53:19 PM And the same with not man, but “nature” acts. Which has more explaining power: that Fred g.....
» 29/03/2017 9:52:36 PM Yuyutsu I am interested in the proposition “man acts” because a) I don’t see why an axio.....
» 29/03/2017 2:29:45 PM Yuyutsu I still can’t see why it’s a problem to say that it’s incorrect to argue that one .....
» 29/03/2017 12:48:40 PM Notice how this article on proposed changes to the constitution: 1. doesn't say what gover.....
» 28/03/2017 8:04:40 PM I mean here we are, after all these discussions, and you’re still dancing round and round .....
» 28/03/2017 5:35:02 PM Aidan Whether you regard assault as non-violent is irrelevant. The fact is, the governme.....
» 28/03/2017 4:29:01 PM “OK, so if I argue and deny that I argue then I am incorrect” If you argue and deny that .....
» 28/03/2017 12:13:59 PM runner No I am not blinded to the anti-humanity of the socialists and equalitarians, as a.....
» 28/03/2017 11:41:47 AM Killarney “I reject domination” You reject political feminism, do you? You reject equal p.....
» 28/03/2017 11:09:06 AM “There is now a large literature highlighting the inadequacy of GDP growth as a useful mea.....
» 26/03/2017 7:13:15 PM Yuyutsu “Now I, without any pretence of rationality…” Isn’t this reasoning: “I want to r.....
» 26/03/2017 4:21:33 PM (cont.) So it’s not enough to dispense with the theistic middle-man. We have to positively.....
» 26/03/2017 4:17:41 PM Yuyutsu, Graham "Good luck with trying to find any ethics in nature: so far, no trace.....
» 26/03/2017 3:26:51 PM [Deleted for abuse].....
» 26/03/2017 3:19:18 PM mikk, diver dan So if someone somewhere else commits a murder of an innocent person, you .....
» 26/03/2017 9:17:49 AM “Firstly, there is no contradiction in wanting the government's ability to use violence re.....
» 25/03/2017 9:46:28 PM If you want to argue that inflation does and it does not increase the purchasing power of .....
» 25/03/2017 9:37:53 PM You’re contradicting yourself by saying you don’t support the use of aggressive violence, .....
» 25/03/2017 5:49:42 AM You're contradicting yourself, and begging the question.....
» 24/03/2017 9:02:29 PM LOL Well certainly the ad for Mrs McGregor's margarine should be illegal, remember that'n.....
» 24/03/2017 6:09:04 PM Hi Joe Loudmouth Yes, very interesting post. I used to think, I reject the Christian vi.....
» 24/03/2017 6:08:52 PM Aidan You're contradicting yourself......
» 24/03/2017 5:53:22 PM Yuyutsu "Perhaps because there ARE no ethics in the natural?" Perhaps there ar.....
» 24/03/2017 8:47:13 AM Ye-es. Sometimes I wonder whether we couldn't go direct to ethics without going via super.....
» 24/03/2017 8:04:05 AM Aidan The straw man is all your own, and as usual you are equivocating on all points: 1.....
» 23/03/2017 2:01:09 PM Dear Yuyutsu It's common ground that aggression against one's person or property is harm......
» 23/03/2017 1:49:29 PM Killarney Post proof of your having provided housing to people at below market rate at yo.....
» 23/03/2017 1:42:08 PM Aidan Ho hum. No reason or evidence for your ad hominem assertions, situation normal. I.....
» 22/03/2017 10:01:17 AM People also rightly figure that a dollar now is worth more than a dollar in the future, le.....
» 21/03/2017 6:45:37 PM Yuyutsu You haven't established that there's anything immoral or criminal or non-consensu.....
» 21/03/2017 8:10:36 AM Samuel, your obvious bias invalidates your argument. What about the ABC's concentration .....
» 20/03/2017 7:31:46 PM Rachael Your hypocrisy is nauseating......
» 9/03/2017 7:17:00 AM Wow, really? Defending mikk? If I was you, Tony, I'd find somebody who is less of an arse.....
» 8/03/2017 7:47:32 PM mikk you are the most ignorant and deceitful person here if we go by your post history. Ne.....
» 8/03/2017 5:14:45 PM What nobody can ever explain, is why everyone should have an equal "right" to vo.....
» 7/03/2017 10:03:59 AM LOL.....
» 23/02/2017 11:10:47 AM Ho hum, more economic illiteracy from the infantile squalling retards of the left. Why n.....
» 21/02/2017 5:04:52 PM Alan B That reminds me of Phyllis Diller's advice "Never go to bed angry. Stay up an.....
» 21/02/2017 11:50:23 AM I think both the Marriage Act and the Family Law Act should be repealed. The law of cont.....
» 20/02/2017 7:42:08 PM EmperorJulian Ho hum, ignorant marxoid drivel. If your assumptions are right, why not v.....
» 20/02/2017 10:32:34 AM diver dan, Aidan Until you have understood and taken account of what government interventi.....
» 17/02/2017 1:35:44 PM ant I have shown why your beliefs are illogical, you have not answered my points, you los.....
» 8/02/2017 11:07:04 AM What amuses me about this gizzard-lore is that they presume to read off the tax rate from .....
» 8/02/2017 4:03:04 AM Malthusians keep regarding their record of being wrong as further evidence that they must .....
» 8/02/2017 3:44:12 AM Unfalsifiable beliefs = not science. Appeal to authority = not science. Bodging up resu.....
» 6/02/2017 7:17:51 PM You are not climatologists, and this disqualifies you from any opinion on climate policy, .....
» 5/02/2017 8:22:38 AM Have you ever argued with a Christian fundamentalist about evolution? They: 1. assume all.....
» 3/02/2017 5:23:06 PM (cont.) … then you have no more ground to say abortion is a right than a wrong. And viol.....
» 3/02/2017 5:19:03 PM phanto "I don't have a definitive answer for those questions but one thing I do know.....
» 3/02/2017 4:03:15 PM Honestly, it's like talking to a creation scientist, a jihadi, or an undergraduate Marxist.....
» 2/02/2017 10:45:41 AM Max I've already explained to you, and you *haven't understood*. Okay? Now get out of .....
» 2/02/2017 10:37:58 AM You see, children, with *real* science, you try to falsify your hypothesis. What you're do.....
» 2/02/2017 10:16:09 AM Anthony Albanese talking down to people about honesty - pffffffffftt! What a joke......
» 2/02/2017 10:15:09 AM Now kindly join issue in a complete way and either answer all my questions, or all of thes.....
» 2/02/2017 10:14:14 AM phanto I am challenging anyone to defend *any* tenet of feminism; and I will undertake to.....
» 1/02/2017 1:13:45 PM ant, Max The very fact that you two have to be dragged kicking and screaming to admit you.....
» 1/02/2017 1:04:50 PM Killarney You were saying? The significance of the women's march was ... what? Hillary s.....
» 1/02/2017 9:22:25 AM How times have changed. In November 2015 Therese May called for Trump to be banned from .....
» 31/01/2017 9:21:32 AM ant Answer my prior questions first; then I'll answer yours......
» 31/01/2017 6:45:52 AM The IPCC is not a *scientific* body charged with determining *whether* we face catastrophi.....
» 30/01/2017 8:30:29 PM So your argument is only this: - "I know because other people told me so" - &quo.....
» 30/01/2017 7:33:23 PM Max You're *ASSUMING* that the theory in issue, is logical in the first place. But tha.....
» 30/01/2017 7:09:04 PM Tony Lavis Ha ha suck eggs. Phanto “You did not answer my question.” You did not answe.....
» 30/01/2017 2:33:17 PM Kendall, if you look at the definition of terrorism you will see that the State is a terro.....
» 30/01/2017 2:16:12 PM Interesting article. What I can't understand is why the sabre-rattling with China? Why c.....
» 27/01/2017 11:15:34 PM Phanto If the purpose of abortion is not to kill a human being, what's the point? Killa.....
» 27/01/2017 11:12:43 PM Max Green squirms and wriggles, all the while ignoring the Stern Report, the Garnaut Repor.....
» 27/01/2017 8:59:34 PM Tony Oh, so it's voluntary, is it? None of the policies and laws that Killarney advocates,.....
» 27/01/2017 8:46:04 PM Honestly, you warmists are like a self-humiliating satire of religious fanatics. You hav.....
» 27/01/2017 8:23:31 PM Killarney Your political ideology consists of threatening people with prison and rape to .....
» 26/01/2017 7:13:17 PM Max Thank you for proving my point. You have nothing but circular credulity, and malevole.....
» 26/01/2017 4:26:06 PM phanto "Can't I be in favour of funding for abortion but against abortion?" No.....
» 26/01/2017 2:51:59 PM phanto So you didn't know that sex causes babies? Are you pro-choice on the funding of a.....
» 26/01/2017 12:47:21 PM Killarney Stop evading. I: 'What specifically about my post "spewed sexist bigotry.....
» 26/01/2017 12:34:11 PM Max Don't think your evasion combined with personal abuse, went unnoticed. That's your id.....
» 25/01/2017 10:36:26 PM Max If a group of 16th century Puritans, having a discussion about the Holy Spirit, convi.....
» 25/01/2017 10:15:43 PM Killarney That's just a vacuous back-bite. What specifically about my post "spewed.....
» 25/01/2017 11:37:57 AM Killarney You don't speak for all women, who do you think you are? The women who marched.....
» 23/01/2017 5:58:35 PM Good and interesting article. The left needs to *understand* the economic calculation arg.....
» 23/01/2017 5:32:11 PM Max. When you are able to understand, and correctly represent, the issues, then you will .....
» 23/01/2017 2:31:12 AM [Deleted for abuse].....
» 22/01/2017 9:59:19 PM Peter, you see this is the repeating pattern. We get a warmist starting a new thread wit.....
» 21/01/2017 10:04:04 PM Peter, Billyd Do you understand that a proposition that is irrational is not and cannot b.....
» 21/01/2017 12:22:18 AM Peter Schrader Do you understand that: 1. a proposition that is irrational is not and can.....
» 20/01/2017 10:33:38 AM mikk I have repeatedly AND COMPLETELY disproved the global warming hysterics' case, or ra.....
» 18/01/2017 6:01:16 PM Ho hum, more of the jumble of logical fallacies and circular superstitious reverence of th.....
» 18/01/2017 1:31:16 PM Ho hum. Having lost, and lost, and lost, and lost the argument over and over and over and.....
» 18/01/2017 1:25:18 PM Fake virtue-signalling from the lemon-sucking hypocrites - talking in English......
» 17/01/2017 2:04:16 PM Jo and Angelika Also, could you please help? I am having an argument with a friend of min.....
» 17/01/2017 1:12:50 PM Ho hum, more bigotted sexist hypocritical hate-speech from the feminists. I challenge any.....
» 13/01/2017 4:34:59 PM Daffy Ho hum, more lies and anti-human hate propaganda from the socialists still dreaming.....
» 13/01/2017 1:15:41 PM Stuart That's not a re-think you fool, that's just the same old sh!t sandwich, not even r.....
» 3/01/2017 9:26:06 AM There's no arguing with socialists because they refuse to learn - have learnt nothing from.....
» 3/01/2017 8:54:17 AM False premise. Also Tim, you can't expect that people should be forced, on pain of priso.....
» 2/01/2017 6:44:49 PM Ho hum. Unfalsifiable = drivel. If a rational system of ethics is not possible, then the.....
» 2/01/2017 6:35:56 PM Max No answer I see: just as I thought. Which means you're a fake, and a hypocrite. Re.....
» 31/12/2016 10:04:17 AM This is a good example of the confusion and self-contradiction of the conservatives which .....
» 29/12/2016 12:48:27 PM Suzanne, when you do something at a loss, it means you're using *more* resources to achiev.....
» 29/12/2016 12:15:18 PM Ho hum, more economic illiteracy from the leftards. Max: economic calculation argument: “.....
» 12/12/2016 11:08:25 AM Why do leftards just assume that other people can't see through their double-talk, shallow.....
» 12/12/2016 10:56:22 AM John Ryan Suck it up, Buttercup.....
» 6/12/2016 12:33:55 PM Notice the stock-standard tactic of the "diversity advocate" to personally abuse.....
» 23/11/2016 8:27:21 AM Albie That reminds me of a guy I knew who was an Uyghur interpreter, like from some place .....
» 21/11/2016 11:00:36 AM Sarah Does anyone voluntarily pay for your services with their own money? Or is your 'so.....
» 18/11/2016 2:48:07 PM Compulsory child support needs to be included in the definition of domestic violence. You .....
» 28/10/2016 10:17:38 PM Aidan ttbn isn't saying, but in any event, tax is by law a compulsory exaction. If you do.....
» 27/10/2016 11:33:36 PM Honestly, the clowns pretending to the knowledge and capacity to fine-tune the balancing o.....
» 27/10/2016 11:15:34 PM Cherful But you're in favour of violence remember? Your entire political ideology is bas.....
» 27/10/2016 11:07:57 PM Luciferase Would you be willing to fund your preferred solution yourself, along with anyo.....
» 27/10/2016 10:58:55 PM Max Green The substance of the point you raised was ad hominem. It is debated - or rather.....
» 27/10/2016 7:17:31 PM It is by no means obvious which voluntary transactions you are saying should be criminalis.....
» 27/10/2016 11:53:10 AM Ttbn So by what principle do you decide whether a particular transaction is to be permitt.....
» 27/10/2016 11:02:05 AM Ttbn Meaning what? There should be no trade or movement of goods across international bor.....
» 23/10/2016 3:03:10 AM Is that the best you can do?.....
» 22/10/2016 3:19:28 PM Craig Different kinds of government interventiin don't make different kinds of capitalism.....
» 16/10/2016 1:27:43 PM CM The article distinguishes the different "kinds of capitalism" it alleges by .....
» 15/10/2016 2:32:49 PM (cont.) The goods and services that the market provides, don't get to you by religion. Th.....
» 15/10/2016 2:23:36 PM Craig Minns “Oh and nobody has tried to make a case here against capitalism or socialism .....
» 15/10/2016 8:52:39 AM AC "I've got this nagging question about whether a mix of socialism and capitalism w.....
» 14/10/2016 5:20:13 PM Craig Minns Prove it......
» 14/10/2016 10:06:46 AM You also contradict yourself so far as WSM enterprises would increase the welfare of the w.....
» 14/10/2016 10:02:11 AM Sam "One can easily imagine adopting that methodology and directing it to a social pu.....
» 11/10/2016 1:08:21 PM Nice try Tombee but you're only trying to reverse the onus of proof. In any event, there's.....
» 11/10/2016 11:50:35 AM Alan B. Have you ever heard of tax deductions? thinkabit "By-the-way: I'm still wai.....
» 11/10/2016 11:46:59 AM Pathetic piece of agitprop. Graeme, science doesn't supply value judgments, whereas poli.....
» 11/10/2016 11:26:10 AM (cont.) The great contradiction underlying all of it is that the author bemoans "cap.....
» 11/10/2016 11:23:58 AM Ho hum the same old dreary drivel from the communists, who never learn anything. 1. You.....
» 10/10/2016 1:06:27 PM I think everyone should just have a barcode tattooed on their forehead. This would make it.....
» 9/10/2016 9:32:13 PM Armchair critic No-one is eating the flesh of anyone, so talk of predation is ridiculous .....
» 9/10/2016 9:44:29 AM o sung wu "The term paedophile describes an adult male person seeking sexual interco.....
» 8/10/2016 5:45:37 PM Alan B. "All the ladies denigrating oversexed males should be exposed to the same lev.....
» 8/10/2016 4:55:22 PM o sung wu Thanks for that. But what is "Paedophilia"? Because it's now being .....
» 7/10/2016 11:19:00 AM Leo I agree with most of what you say, however for many centuries, the couple could not m.....
» 7/10/2016 10:37:19 AM I was reading an article just yesterday about a guy in Britain whose son, who was aged 16 .....
» 6/10/2016 9:15:22 AM "the marriage equality debate is not about whether the government should be involved .....
» 5/10/2016 3:05:23 PM Old man, you confuse society with the State. Marriage and its reproductive benefits aris.....
» 5/10/2016 11:19:25 AM Cobber "My answer to the actual question being asked is. If we are saying that Homos.....
» 5/10/2016 10:49:49 AM What a facile load of double-talk and self-contradiction. One fact suffices to dispose o.....
» 5/10/2016 4:13:47 AM All A typical definition of terrorism is this one from Google: “the unofficial or unauth.....
» 4/10/2016 7:31:00 PM Simon Louie So which do you think is more of an authority of international law, the Inter.....
» 4/10/2016 5:18:23 PM EJ Stop squirming. Either prove the social contract, or admit that it doesn’t exist. Yo.....
» 4/10/2016 3:29:24 PM Any political party that offers to reverse the injustice of the family law system will win.....
» 4/10/2016 2:57:26 PM Jon J The big difference between the reformation of Christianity 400 years ago, and any su.....
» 4/10/2016 2:34:01 PM Rudolf Hoss? The famous cowboy?.....
» 4/10/2016 2:24:10 PM EmperorJulian Whether the State can be justified is a different issue. The present point .....
» 4/10/2016 11:26:03 AM Simon Louie What makes a vote for secession "illegal"?.....
» 3/10/2016 8:44:13 PM EmperorJulian "JKJ suggests a society in which there are predators and prey, with pr.....
» 3/10/2016 4:29:15 PM The modern version, is state-sponsored intellectuals preaching that the State is all-knowi.....
» 3/10/2016 4:26:26 PM "And people do more or less enter into an invisible social contract just by living in.....
» 3/10/2016 12:55:17 PM Bill, your entire argument collapses at this point, before you even get to square one: “Th.....
» 3/10/2016 12:29:59 PM James. Good. Perhaps you should re-consider your uncritical devotion to the State, and it.....
» 2/10/2016 4:23:06 PM "Trump would devastate American society with his cuts to the bone ; his massive corpo.....
» 1/10/2016 9:16:41 AM You see, Peter, with *real* ethics, you undertake moral responsibility for your own action.....
» 30/09/2016 7:51:53 PM Also Peter, could you please hurry up because 1. We are talking about real people here und.....
» 30/09/2016 7:45:35 PM It’s okay Peter, I found it, you can stop looking. “DEED AND DECLARATION OF TRUST “I, th.....
» 30/09/2016 10:13:29 AM "An overriding ethical guideline is that we are allowed to do anything we want to pro.....
» 13/09/2016 12:38:41 PM … of the relevant competing human values; which you haven’t a) identified, or b) proved. .....
» 13/09/2016 12:34:09 PM Aidan 1. Unclear. Do you mean you agree that that line of reasoning is illogical? 2. Wh.....
» 12/09/2016 6:14:10 PM (cont). the same standard you apply to markets, not just assume that government is perfect.....
» 12/09/2016 6:06:20 PM Aidan “But the basis is simple enough: when the government employs people directly, obvio.....
» 12/09/2016 9:14:39 AM (cont.) It's because the very nature of economics is that we have to reconcile what is gai.....
» 12/09/2016 9:09:31 AM TOR Ho hum ad hom. Unfortunately the question whether government should increase its bo.....
» 11/09/2016 6:06:00 PM TO'R Stop squirming and evading and answer the question......
» 11/09/2016 5:57:03 PM Thomas O'Reilly What you're calling "infantile" is merely me holding up the mir.....
» 11/09/2016 3:04:15 PM ant There is no such scientific term as "denier", you fool. According to your s.....
» 11/09/2016 3:02:07 PM (cont.) Furthermore you have simply ASSUMED that everyone else must be following the same .....
» 11/09/2016 2:59:24 PM TO'R The economic goods produced by the market are not getting to you by religious myth. .....
» 10/09/2016 10:59:15 PM Baygon What is the fair price?.....
» 10/09/2016 10:54:17 PM Killarney has nothing but sarcastic ad hominem, as usual......
» 10/09/2016 10:43:10 PM @Thomas O'Reilly, the intellectual giant BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! strikes again. Your d.....
» 10/09/2016 1:07:54 PM "You have wrongly accused me of assuming that the difference between a barter economy.....
» 10/09/2016 12:39:35 PM "If the theory doesn't match the facts, what you "know in theory" you actua.....
» 10/09/2016 12:36:00 PM All I have to do to prove, to your own standard, that you are, to quote you, "100% wr.....
» 9/09/2016 9:53:38 AM (cont.) I'm not going to explain to you the economic calculation problem any more than I'.....
» 9/09/2016 9:46:49 AM Aidan You have said "Right now the economy needs stimulus so the government should b.....
» 9/09/2016 8:51:42 AM Adolf Hitler: hero or villain? Only a statist could such a question......
» 8/09/2016 9:41:05 AM Aidan "If you want me to derive those rates from theoretical principles, forget it; .....
» 7/09/2016 9:19:02 PM Aidan Inflation rates, of themselves, are not a criterion. They can vary from 0% to thous.....
» 7/09/2016 2:50:12 PM If you have ever debated a fundamentalist Christian on their claims about God, you will no.....
» 7/09/2016 2:41:35 PM Aidan Can’t you see that saying “interest rates” does not provide any objective criterion.....
» 7/09/2016 11:53:36 AM And what about intolerant statist bigotry? What are we doing about that? Why should people.....
» 6/09/2016 3:06:31 PM Aidan > What exactly is it you want me to prove? I just told you. A. Show us that yo.....
» 6/09/2016 10:20:59 AM Aidan When you have understood, and can correctly represent, the economic calculation pro.....
» 5/09/2016 10:04:39 AM Well said, David. You are the only sensible voice in the Parliament. Perhaps if you keep e.....
» 3/09/2016 1:55:22 AM Aidan Wrong. You are only displaying your confused failure to understand what you're talk.....
» 2/09/2016 11:27:07 AM Alan B "pedophilia, criminals who in my view should be taken out and shot?" Mea.....
» 2/09/2016 11:19:38 AM Unlike the term left wing - which invariably refers to an ideology of advancing the powers.....
» 1/09/2016 9:52:14 AM Stuart The act of marriage is the exchange of vows, not the signing of the register. Yo.....
» 31/08/2016 10:18:48 AM Bruce Your blind irrational worship of the State, your superstitious belief that it is som.....
» 4/08/2016 4:20:30 PM A "reasonable excuse" for not answering the census is that you were away on cens.....
» 4/08/2016 4:12:30 PM Bryan, the same applies to the valuing of commodities. This invalidates your theory. Plus.....
» 4/08/2016 5:46:14 AM You're only repeating your double-talk......
» 3/08/2016 12:41:17 PM If a census is necessary to provide a service, then why don't all other service providers,.....
» 1/08/2016 6:26:56 PM Aidan So money has whatever value the government assigns to it; but it doesn't, it depends.....
» 1/08/2016 12:55:34 AM To the extent people value gold for its monetary characteristics, such as a medium of exch.....
» 31/07/2016 5:00:51 PM Isn't the reason why it would be stupid of the government to assign a value of 5 cents to .....
» 31/07/2016 1:05:55 PM You're contradicting yourself again. On the one hand you deny that there's a disconnect b.....
» 30/07/2016 5:13:39 PM Aidan You're contradicting yourself. On the one hand you're saying - correct me if I'm wr.....
» 29/07/2016 11:55:59 PM We've just established that your theory of money contradicts your theory of value. Perha.....
» 29/07/2016 5:08:02 PM What if promiscuous sex is my religion, Peter?.....
» 29/07/2016 4:25:27 PM Yes I do agree. It's stupid to say "just because it costs more to make doesn't mean .....
» 29/07/2016 1:23:31 PM So according to the theory you rely on, if the authority chose, instead of a piece of nick.....
» 29/07/2016 8:46:24 AM Fiat money, by definition, takes its (monetary) value (as opposed to commodity value) from.....
» 29/07/2016 8:34:52 AM Who's "we"? This facile piece of intellectual flummery invalidate's the author'.....
» 28/07/2016 1:49:41 PM David L. Congratulations on again becoming the only non-fascist in Parliament: a breath of.....
» 26/07/2016 2:18:05 PM Take away the author's mind-reading, and there's nothing left.....
» 19/07/2016 8:53:57 PM Susieonline, Cobber, you worship the state. In case you haven't notice, You consider it a .....
» 19/07/2016 8:21:30 AM The problem with that argument, or rather assumption, is that it proves too much. “relig.....
» 18/07/2016 9:41:42 AM “It is never easy, of course, to read the collective 'electoral mind'.” That’s because it.....
» 1/07/2016 9:58:47 AM Nauseating parasitism......
» 26/06/2016 10:38:03 AM Poirot Okay, just what I expected. Assumptions that everyone gets richer from government h.....
» 26/06/2016 9:14:22 AM Every time the socialists think they’re going to help the poor by promoting unlimited gove.....
» 25/06/2016 7:58:59 PM "The reality is that Brexit has nothing to do with my views. Obviously, if you're go.....
» 25/06/2016 5:40:28 PM Steeleredux So you openly admit that there is nothing to the bremain case than squalling .....
» 25/06/2016 10:14:06 AM Poirot But you're against free trade and profit is evil, remember? You're only making an e.....
» 16/06/2016 10:39:18 AM How about those who agree with you pay for it, James, and those who don't, don't? That'd .....
» 23/05/2016 12:30:51 PM Aidan As long as "cheap finance" is available, anything can outcompete anything.....
» 23/05/2016 12:24:25 PM What a great emblem. However it does present some conceptual and practical difficulties .....
» 30/03/2016 7:37:42 PM Doug Pollard Why two? Yuyutsu Yes. The Crimes Act, NSW, and corresponding legislation i.....
» 30/03/2016 12:52:17 PM The article and all responses only beg the question what government is doing registering p.....
» 19/03/2016 9:52:23 PM Malcolm, do you employ any aged workers, older than yourself for example?.....
» 19/03/2016 9:35:13 PM Susieonline How are you supportive of male victims of domestic violence?.....
» 18/03/2016 2:24:41 PM "Imagine the accurate reflection of what domestic violence really looks like if you e.....
» 18/03/2016 2:06:23 PM You appear to have no concept of wealth creation other than pursuant to some kind of gover.....
» 14/03/2016 1:38:58 AM Killarney, Rhostry Your assumption that you were charged by God to tell common mortals wh.....
» 13/03/2016 9:34:40 PM Brian, I think the flaws in your argument are twofold. Firstly your belief that wealth is.....
» 10/03/2016 3:51:33 PM That's why it's important for people to be free, as much as possible, to make a living and.....
» 10/03/2016 3:47:50 PM Interesting article. "What is our plan for funding a life where half of that life is.....
» 10/03/2016 1:07:01 AM Rosie, when you have a theory that doesn’t explain the facts, it means the theory’s wrong......
» 27/12/2015 2:32:34 PM The science proves you wrong. You are just a denialist. Sophistry would be a step up from .....
» 27/12/2015 11:05:10 AM ant The science disproves you. You are just a denier. All you have is sophistry. Scienc.....
» 27/12/2015 10:39:21 AM Bravo Aidan. Well said. I have bagged you out enough so it is only fair I praise you when .....
» 25/12/2015 11:31:51 PM ant Show how you calculated the distribution and abundance of species under the status qu.....
» 25/12/2015 11:26:22 PM ant What does it matter to you whether other people share your beliefs about the climate?.....
» 25/12/2015 11:23:36 PM ant That's a bit rich, from someone who entire theory is that anyone who challenges your .....
» 25/12/2015 11:13:23 PM Killarney Other people are not your property......
» 24/12/2015 10:40:10 AM "Muslims all around Australia deserve a fair go and should only be judged according t.....
» 24/12/2015 10:34:49 AM The scale of this corrupt fraud is quite breath-taking and it puts the mediaeval church's .....
» 23/12/2015 10:37:42 PM ant So what?.....
» 23/12/2015 10:36:15 PM ant The data do not support your theory......
» 23/12/2015 10:34:33 PM Learn some intellectual honesty, I meant. Evading questions that prove you wrong either wa.....
» 23/12/2015 10:30:45 PM ant Your endless incantation of religious liturgy is quite tedious. All your appeals to.....
» 22/12/2015 8:56:37 PM No-one has established any reason why male and female “should” be the same, valued the sam.....
» 22/12/2015 8:53:43 PM Rhian 8. Why is it irrelevant to ask Sarah or Killarney to provide proof of what they have.....
» 22/12/2015 8:52:40 PM Rhian, Sarah, Killarney You understand, don't you, that if you face questions which you c.....
» 20/12/2015 11:11:05 AM All The warmists' intellectual methodology is indistinguishable from that of fundamentali.....
» 20/12/2015 11:00:41 AM ant You want governments to control every carbon oxidation and reduction reaction in the .....
» 19/12/2015 11:30:08 PM "And it really should go without saying that it's a fallacy to fraudulently misrepres.....
» 19/12/2015 11:23:45 PM Aidan Okay so we have just established to your own standard that what you're saying is fa.....
» 19/12/2015 10:52:55 PM Warmists: "I just switch off my critical faculty, swallow anything that big governmen.....
» 19/12/2015 10:52:23 PM MrOpinion I reject your mind-reading, and your last post contains nothing else. You would.....
» 19/12/2015 10:18:16 PM ant You know perfectly well are not interested in discussion, you are only interested jus.....
» 18/12/2015 9:49:40 PM That's why feminists have never given a sh!t about the unequally high rate of male deaths .....
» 18/12/2015 9:24:20 PM Wolly Killarney has not been able to defend the idea that there is or has ever been a &qu.....
» 18/12/2015 9:02:46 PM MrOpinion I feel sad for people like you: openly arguing that blind faith in authority tr.....
» 18/12/2015 6:04:07 PM Rhostry, Daffy All you need to know about Naomi Klein is that she refers to a statutory m.....
» 17/12/2015 10:32:49 PM MrSimplicity Do you understand that, if you pursue economic ends - such as economising on.....
» 17/12/2015 9:34:35 PM Killarney Stop pretending that you have evidence of your protestations and activism to eq.....
» 17/12/2015 9:07:02 PM Max So what?.....
» 17/12/2015 9:03:05 PM Mr Opinion Do you understand that scientific proof cannot take the form of reliance on il.....
» 17/12/2015 6:22:17 PM (cont.) 2. You keep wanting to persuade others - by argumentation – to believe what you b.....
» 17/12/2015 6:17:37 PM Aidan “Why do you think the authority of scientists is absent?” It’s absent because the .....
» 17/12/2015 1:53:27 PM Alon Your argument applies equally to all occupations of all lands by all states......
» 17/12/2015 1:47:59 PM MrSimplicity "First, please actually quote from my article where exactly I referred t.....
» 17/12/2015 8:50:30 AM The non-economically illiterate can only laugh at the confused jumble of self-contradictio.....
» 16/12/2015 8:58:48 PM "The Appeal to Authority is a recognised fallacy, but what’s an appeal to an absent a.....
» 16/12/2015 3:54:57 PM "How does one provide 'proof' of that sort of thing? Could you provide 'proof' that y.....
» 16/12/2015 3:35:34 PM You answer my prior question of you first. You do understand, don't you, that science ca.....
» 16/12/2015 12:28:42 PM Mr Opinion Science is an intellectual methodology, not an employment category. Science .....
» 16/12/2015 12:17:44 PM Geoff Well if it's not about the profit, it's about the loss, which is less productive, no.....
» 16/12/2015 10:36:42 AM Noel, this article assumes that you know what to do in order to fine-tune the climate, whi.....
» 15/12/2015 8:27:34 PM ant I told you to stop squirming and evading. Answer the question. Do you, or do you .....
» 15/12/2015 8:23:46 PM Killarney Provide proof of what protests or activism you have engaged in to equalise the .....
» 15/12/2015 8:13:15 PM Agronomist You have confused state with society and this factual error completely invalid.....
» 15/12/2015 8:09:23 PM Cobber So according to you, government subsidisation of energy was the worst mistake in t.....
» 15/12/2015 6:09:33 PM Robert Why do you require other people to force you to stop using fossil fuels and consum.....
» 14/12/2015 6:48:26 PM phanto I think the point is, you don't need to define a marriage. Historically the chur.....
» 14/12/2015 6:11:49 PM Lousia At common law, the definition of marriage was and is the union of one man and one .....
» 14/12/2015 10:26:30 AM Cobber Provide proof of how much you have invested in renewables......
» 9/12/2015 12:07:00 AM The observation that you have again assumed what is in issue when you have completely and .....
» 8/12/2015 11:50:53 PM Daffy Duck But according to you, rights are whatever the government says they are, rememb.....
» 8/12/2015 5:23:23 PM tony wait for a cloudless day. Look at the sky. If it is blue, shake your head in defian.....
» 8/12/2015 5:07:23 PM ant Stop squirming and wriggling and incanting your liturgy and answer the question direc.....
» 8/12/2015 5:01:04 PM Killarney We don't live in a society in which men rule in their capacity as fathers, so l.....
» 6/12/2015 12:00:48 PM Notice how, when challenged, the warmist tony's ultimate argument is pseudo-psychologising.....
» 6/12/2015 11:51:32 AM Appeal to absent authority and begging the question are not science, and that's all you've.....
» 5/12/2015 11:55:22 PM Ho hum, more sexist bigotry and hate speech from the feminists, situation normal. Killarn.....
» 4/12/2015 2:17:14 PM You did admit it and the economic illiteracy is all yours unless you can show how you took.....
» 4/12/2015 12:47:18 PM She could always try being a bit more loving and giving......
» 4/12/2015 11:59:53 AM Aidan, you've already admitted you know what you're saying is not true, remember? You do.....
» 3/12/2015 12:38:33 PM Oh yes and the lack of orange and elephants in churches is a thing I have often deplored. .....
» 3/12/2015 12:26:38 PM The difference is that our corruption is legal. Australian politicians and 'public servant.....
» 3/12/2015 12:05:08 PM Susie, dishonest as usual I see. If you weren't aware that it's morally wrong to force an.....
» 3/12/2015 11:54:43 AM And I suppose that means my codpiece has got to go?.....
» 3/12/2015 11:50:23 AM A breathless fret-fest. The author's pretensions to tell everyone else in the world what .....
» 3/12/2015 2:51:21 AM Susie, are you pretending you don't understand that answering is not voluntary, or genuine.....
» 2/12/2015 1:18:04 PM Bureaucrats in charge of innovation, ho ho har har hee hee, that's a good one. They will e.....
» 24/11/2015 7:05:20 PM ant So your argument is, "I believe something, so you should believe it too, and as .....
» 24/11/2015 7:02:19 PM God yarp yarp yarp yarble yarble yarble......
» 24/11/2015 7:00:18 PM Aidan So you enter the discussion having already assumed that there is an appropriate or .....
» 24/11/2015 6:51:26 PM ant You do understand, don't you, that a scientific proof cannot take the form of relying.....
» 23/11/2015 1:07:15 PM ant What does it matter to you whether other people share your religious opinions?.....
» 23/11/2015 1:05:41 PM "It's better for a theory to be incomplete than completely wrong." You haven't .....
» 23/11/2015 12:42:06 PM It is not a straw man to say that you argue that the existence of states demonstrates the .....
» 23/11/2015 12:27:57 PM Aidan So in other words, you don't know whether or not a tax is beneficial or detrimental.....
» 21/11/2015 9:49:01 PM Peter Notice also that this a) demonstrates a rational ethic that is internally consiste.....
» 21/11/2015 9:44:55 PM That's it. That's all the human rights there are, all the human rights there can be, and a.....
» 21/11/2015 9:37:14 PM Contrary to popular misconception, invariably spread by the State, ethics aren't just &quo.....
» 21/11/2015 9:31:01 PM Peter, the need for ethics arises out of the fact of the scarcity of resources. If there.....
» 21/11/2015 9:21:51 PM mikk "Sadly my money is on war! We humans just cant help ourselves" Speak for .....
» 21/11/2015 9:16:35 PM mikk You're ignoring your own religion, the State. "No law on adultery or sex outsi.....
» 21/11/2015 4:15:01 PM At no stage do they offer any reason for their belief that a "democratic" proces.....
» 21/11/2015 4:09:21 PM All What we have just established here is that there is no such thing as an appropriate or.....
» 21/11/2015 3:44:58 PM mikk You obviously haven't understood the whole debate. It is not enough to point to a .....
» 20/11/2015 6:13:56 PM Steel You appear to be under the impression that government is a corrupt protection racke.....
» 20/11/2015 6:08:54 PM Cherful More hateful sexist bigotry from the feminists, ho hum. Perhaps you should practi.....
» 20/11/2015 5:58:59 PM MrSimplicity Do you ever doubt whether you know better than everyone else what their thou.....
» 20/11/2015 5:57:20 PM You forgot Greenpeace Daffy. Why is that?.....
» 20/11/2015 5:55:45 PM Notice how the responses of the warming alarmists consist of NOTHING BUT: a) personal abus.....
» 19/11/2015 1:18:10 PM "Given these kinds of multiples, a 35% reduction in materials demand (i.e., only 25% .....
» 19/11/2015 12:21:53 AM R0bert Yes, exactly. I think it was Bjorn Borg who, when asked about the difference betwe.....
» 18/11/2015 2:56:26 PM Hi Natasha Welcome to OLO and by all means keep stealing Planta's identity and posting ph.....
» 18/11/2015 2:27:10 PM Great article, John. However I am always disappointed that you don't apply your own anal.....
» 18/11/2015 2:08:10 PM "Attempts to establish jurisprudence on individual rights is fundamentally misguided......
» 18/11/2015 1:35:06 PM One of the most irritating things about feminism is that it spreads the kind of learnt stu.....
» 17/11/2015 2:59:36 PM Aidan "Secondly as you were whinging about the lack of definitions in the article wh.....
» 17/11/2015 2:57:24 PM Aidan "Secondly as you were whinging about the lack of definitions in the article wh.....
» 17/11/2015 2:53:57 PM Aidan Look the question is perfectly simple. How do you know, at any given point, whether.....
» 17/11/2015 2:50:10 PM Jonathon "In other words this type of society needs to be replaced (not reformed) wi.....
» 15/11/2015 5:06:28 PM If after that, you choose to keep believing and saying what you know is untrue, I think th.....
» 15/11/2015 5:05:47 PM After all, all values are ultimately subjective. For example, even objective values over w.....
» 15/11/2015 5:04:17 PM The author's article necessarily assumes the concept of the appropriate or fair rate of ta.....
» 13/11/2015 11:31:18 PM Pericles Your paternalistic sexist bigotry would have been less offensive if at the same t.....
» 13/11/2015 11:30:47 PM All of a sudden they think nature-given sex-specific socially-constructed non-consensual g.....
» 13/11/2015 11:27:33 PM “But” comes the standard rejoinder “People should still be valued equally as human beings,.....
» 13/11/2015 11:22:58 PM One of the interesting things about feminism is that they were ever able to get anyone to .....
» 13/11/2015 6:25:52 PM Well, looks like human freedom is not such a scourge and a plague after all, and the State.....
» 13/11/2015 6:20:14 PM Aidan > "Why not? Isn't money wealth?" >>No. 'Nuff said. You're makin.....
» 13/11/2015 3:02:05 PM Notice how the statists keep discussing the issues as if the policy conclusion is to be de.....
» 13/11/2015 2:10:47 PM Foleo “Jardine, please define 'define'.” How about “state or set forth the meaning”, “spec.....
» 13/11/2015 1:50:41 PM Aidan "the GST is not a wealth tax" Why not? Isn't money wealth? "How mu.....
» 13/11/2015 1:01:02 PM Hmm. A bad case of certificate-itis. The cure is for universities not to issue degrees f.....
» 12/11/2015 10:18:53 PM Outrider All tax is a wealth tax, obviously. Are you saying that wealth is a bad thing .....
» 12/11/2015 5:59:11 PM - has a right to imprison or threaten to imprison people - i.e. everyone - to get the mone.....
» 12/11/2015 5:51:39 PM The author neglects the most dominant - and violent - religion of all: the State. As Mis.....
» 12/11/2015 5:10:13 PM Mark 1. What is your definition of the State? 2. What is your reason for saying that univ.....
» 12/11/2015 4:49:19 PM By the way, John, Pinochet was a national socialist like you. He's on your side. Remember?.....
» 12/11/2015 4:42:17 PM " Land Tax is the only revenue mechanism to generate positive benefits for the econom.....
» 11/11/2015 9:53:56 PM ima My argument is not ad hominem. You are the one arguing, or rather assuming, that inv.....
» 11/11/2015 9:44:08 PM Notice how the statist a) does not define neoliberalism? b) does not define the State? c).....
» 10/11/2015 4:05:50 PM It is disgraceful that an entire industry of professional intellectuals should have so fun.....
» 10/11/2015 4:03:37 PM It should be obvious that the problem is the politicisation of science. Even Matthew Rid.....
» 10/11/2015 3:03:18 PM Mark Can you see that, in a discussion of a political economy, if a professional intellec.....
» 10/11/2015 2:54:57 PM diver dan Okay, so we are agreed that you are arguing IN FAVOUR OF 1. authoritarianism 2......
» 10/11/2015 2:47:22 PM imacentristmoderate "Your projecting" Notice how the statist, when challenged,.....
» 7/11/2015 8:41:09 PM diver dan You are completely confused abuot what you're talking about. You are IN FAVOU.....
» 7/11/2015 8:15:58 PM Daffy Duck "Although it is very much about the situation in the USA it does have rel.....
» 7/11/2015 8:09:41 PM Mark, you have completely failed to give any reason why any individual or group should hav.....
» 7/11/2015 8:02:57 PM A government funded university is not "autonomous" or "free of external con.....
» 7/11/2015 7:44:39 PM The author completely fails to make his case, and in the process demonstrates that he has .....
» 8/10/2015 3:02:05 PM Yes, very interesting article, thanks......
» 5/10/2015 10:32:34 AM 2. Can you see that the very fact I have to take you back to first principles of morality .....
» 5/10/2015 10:28:55 AM "For goodness sake, JKJ, the question at issue is the cost, or otherwise, of allowing.....
» 3/10/2015 10:57:44 AM Sorry, but it’s just confused, or facile, nonsense. e) Even if people are wrong, that do.....
» 3/10/2015 10:56:07 AM a) As things stand now, even if the pay differences between men and women doing the same j.....
» 3/10/2015 10:53:49 AM "Proxies for all, I say!" Indeed. Sack the politicians I say, because we can al.....
» 2/10/2015 9:30:15 AM Susieonline You're contradicting yourself. Tell you what. You go away and actually *think.....
» 1/10/2015 10:59:36 PM Jaime, how long have you had this feeling of entitlement to order people around as if they.....
» 1/10/2015 4:06:21 PM Equal pay for workers who have *unequal* costs or risks of costs is not equal pay from an .....
» 1/10/2015 4:00:47 PM Well you can't argue that a proxy vote is a benefit and not a benefit at the same time; or.....
» 29/09/2015 9:43:48 PM If this were not so, a) you must be arguing that employers deliberately choose to make a .....
» 29/09/2015 9:29:48 PM Rhian "It is no more a “concession” to allow women to breast feed than it is to place.....
» 29/09/2015 8:50:20 PM Susieonline "Jardine, I believe polygamy and bigamy are illegal in Australia, while .....
» 29/09/2015 12:10:25 PM Notice the ABC does not in their recognition of 58 genders seem to recognise the legitimac.....
» 28/09/2015 1:45:26 AM Then when confronted with the self-contradictions and falsities of what you’re saying, you.....
» 28/09/2015 1:43:20 AM the costs, or risks of costs, of employing members of group B are higher, then it’s NOT TR.....
» 28/09/2015 1:37:42 AM Rhian To the extent that it is allowed to women because of breast-feeding, of course it's.....
» 25/09/2015 8:42:00 PM Rhian As I said, so far as they are voluntary, I am fine with them. Government is not fu.....
» 25/09/2015 12:13:23 PM Loudmouth The other option is for Australia to withdraw from the 1951 UN Refugees Convent.....
» 25/09/2015 10:55:16 AM Petra Isn’t it true that: 1. You have no intention of voluntarily funding from your own p.....
» 25/09/2015 9:35:30 AM Hi Evelyn, interesting article......
» 25/09/2015 9:16:21 AM "social impact sector" That's the first I've ever heard of the social impact se.....
» 24/09/2015 7:58:07 PM Rhian Oh you thought it was voluntary, did you? If it is, then certainly I have no object.....
» 24/09/2015 5:51:32 PM Then there'll be no need to threaten people with imprisonment to force them to pay will th.....
» 24/09/2015 10:06:15 AM Rhian/Linden The author is arguing that women are not equal to men, so you need to take t.....
» 23/09/2015 12:33:17 PM David, you should pull your head in. Start by acknowledging your double standards and sexi.....
» 23/09/2015 12:30:40 PM "Why does stopping the boats have to involve keeping people in such horrific conditio.....
» 23/09/2015 9:09:29 AM Ho hum, more pious sneering and fake moral superiority from the left wing. It was better.....
» 22/09/2015 11:36:35 AM It is not enough to disprove the evolutionary explanation of altruism (not really altruism.....
» 22/09/2015 11:32:30 AM Hi Simon I thought that was a really interesting article, and your reasoning is valid. Bu.....
» 22/09/2015 10:25:15 AM Ho hum, more claims of female privilege from the feminists. The self-contradiction is ob.....
» 17/09/2015 11:38:52 PM Thank you Mike for that display of mendacious dishonesty and snivelling evasion. There's.....
» 16/09/2015 4:10:07 PM What causes obesity is people eating too much, you fool......
» 14/09/2015 3:26:32 PM "But nothing will resist the advances being made by human ingenuity." Then ther.....
» 14/09/2015 10:32:36 AM Well just as well we've got you to fine-tune the hydrological cycle of the globe, and the .....
» 13/09/2015 8:38:34 PM "A few moments of thought shows that it is better to stick with fossil fuels ...".....
» 13/09/2015 9:26:28 AM "For that to happen we would need the government to put substantial funds into the re.....
» 13/09/2015 9:14:08 AM Constance "Do you wonder why it was deleted. ?" Do I wonder why what was delete.....
» 13/09/2015 8:28:29 AM Mike Pope You see what's happened, is that we've just demonstrated that you don't care th.....
» 12/09/2015 10:29:15 AM Mike Do you, or do you not understand that science: 1. does not supply value judgments? 2.....
» 12/09/2015 2:39:35 AM Mike Don’t you realise what a complete clown you’re making of yourself, and everyone who.....
» 11/09/2015 10:40:03 PM warmair You do understand, don't you, that science doesn't supply value judgments, and can.....
» 11/09/2015 5:11:13 PM Constance Good luck with that. Yah I think I had a royal cousin in some many degrees there.....
» 11/09/2015 4:53:18 PM Mike Pope Stop trying to squirm out of it, and just answer the questions directly on poin.....
» 11/09/2015 11:12:26 AM Don't worry Viv, Mike Pope is going to get up in the morning and milk the cows to produce .....
» 11/09/2015 11:06:13 AM Loudmouth, nothing of what you say provides any justification of climate policy. To do tha.....
» 11/09/2015 8:12:40 AM "The sky is falling! We're all going to die! How do I know? Someone told me so.".....
» 10/09/2015 10:26:45 AM The consent of the parties answers all questions of morality, and this completely disposes.....
» 2/09/2015 12:27:52 PM Bruno, until you have a) understood, and b) refuted the economic calculation argument, y.....
» 18/07/2015 1:14:56 PM So you agree that you're in favour of exploitation and violence, at the same time as you d.....
» 18/07/2015 11:40:01 AM Aidan That's just more of the standard statist fantasy that real wealth - houses, trucks, .....
» 18/07/2015 11:25:40 AM Tristan So far you have not made any attempt to engage with the issues under discussion. .....
» 18/07/2015 8:28:47 AM EmperorJulian In case you haven't noticed, you can't defend socialism without immediately.....
» 18/07/2015 8:18:05 AM "I am openly critical of socialist authoritarianism." No you're not, you're ope.....
» 16/07/2015 12:05:39 PM "Here's them in our country Greece gets more with begging than we can do with working.....
» 15/07/2015 6:26:38 PM Tristan You yourself have just admitted that you can't see or understand any difference b.....
» 15/07/2015 4:00:34 AM Bugsy Your belief that personal abuse determines whether the globe is warming is not scien.....
» 15/07/2015 3:57:29 AM So you can't tell the difference between rape and making love, robbery and gift-giving, ge.....
» 14/07/2015 10:28:11 AM Well-written and interesting article. Now let us have another one. "It is time to .....
» 14/07/2015 10:24:12 AM You are contradicting yourself to the extent you advocate and support capitalism while bel.....
» 14/07/2015 10:17:01 AM "We aim to promote greater equality of power..." How can you say you aim to pro.....
» 12/07/2015 11:44:40 PM Tristan To the extent you support private enterprise you support the exploitation of the .....
» 12/07/2015 11:38:12 PM Tristan Why don't you care that what you are saying is full of self-contradictions? How c.....
» 12/07/2015 11:27:47 PM Foxy I'm not slurring you. I'm just pointing out the fact that your claimed concern for r.....
» 11/07/2015 3:04:20 AM Passy, you have no interest in the truth, all you want to do is give the ruling class more.....
» 11/07/2015 2:58:40 AM Tristan I am engaging with the arguments. It's you who's not. You don't understand the .....
» 11/07/2015 2:40:26 AM Aidan What kind of idiot asserts a net benefit by ignoring the costs? But the costs are .....
» 11/07/2015 2:19:52 AM (cont.) Public discussion if full of this kind of irrelevant diversion, all giving the St.....
» 11/07/2015 2:15:43 AM Rhian "If you were consistent, you would surely direct as much ire at the people who.....
» 10/07/2015 2:54:32 PM Rhian "not everyone who advocates a different approach to asylum seekers is grandstan.....
» 10/07/2015 9:35:30 AM Yarble-yarp. Tristan, unless and until you understand the economic calculation argument,.....
» 9/07/2015 8:01:41 PM Rhian "Yep, that’s my point." Your point being what exactly?.....
» 9/07/2015 5:38:51 PM Rhian If it costs $100 per refugee under your proposal, and, say $4,000 now, that means, .....
» 9/07/2015 1:25:28 PM bjbelly What Yuyutsu said. Australia has the capacity to accept all the refugees it wan.....
» 9/07/2015 10:55:58 AM Rhian "A truly libertarian position would surely be one of completely open borders t.....
» 9/07/2015 10:27:13 AM The whole point of the so-called marriage equality movement is to reject the conventional .....
» 8/07/2015 4:13:16 PM Rhian "Why is coercing taxpayers to support community settlement of refugees a bad t.....
» 8/07/2015 1:45:47 PM Foxy "I'm not interested." You're not interested in refugees. You're just inte.....
» 8/07/2015 12:42:52 PM Rhian "I’d happily sign up for a share of that." Go on then. Let's see you do .....
» 8/07/2015 11:57:33 AM I think the issue is freedom of association rather than freedom of religion. The regressi.....
» 7/07/2015 6:02:06 PM Foxy "Why can't we have a rational debate on the issue of asylum-seekers. Why does it.....
» 7/07/2015 12:25:39 PM Loudmouth "(1): If we can't favour person A over person B, then whoever can show tha.....
» 7/07/2015 11:56:11 AM “DEED AND DECLARATION OF TRUST I, the undersigned, hereby solemnly and sincerely declare .....
» 7/07/2015 11:55:24 AM "And if that’s true of corporations, then what of nations? Indeed. Justine the si.....
» 7/07/2015 11:13:51 AM Roger, if the sorting of the rubbish is not voluntary, but under State compulsion, all you.....
» 3/07/2015 10:53:18 AM "arguing that the practice conforms to the teaching and example of Muhammad and his c.....
» 2/07/2015 11:18:24 AM How appropriate that that the country that gave us democracy should be in this state. Demo.....
» 2/07/2015 10:24:09 AM "Neither Greece nor its European partners show any sign of emerging from a state of s.....
» 1/07/2015 2:28:57 PM Straw man. Nobody's saying children shouldn't be educated. You're confusing state educatio.....
» 1/07/2015 11:46:51 AM All Notice how no-one can defend state interventions in education other than by denying .....
» 1/07/2015 11:30:58 AM "We do not assume, as many human rights practitioners and scholars do, that more huma.....
» 1/07/2015 9:38:15 AM "As Charles I was to assert in 1660..." BTW you mean Charles II. The first lost.....
» 1/07/2015 9:10:10 AM Notice how 1. most discussions of government talk about the State, but never question the .....
» 1/07/2015 8:44:57 AM So are funding and attendance compulsory, or not?.....
» 29/06/2015 9:33:35 PM 4. "If you want a dissertation on the relationship between force and rights, go ahea.....
» 29/06/2015 9:28:02 PM Aidan I reject your attempt to divert the discussion into personal contingencies. You'r.....
» 29/06/2015 8:46:31 PM Aidan, you do understand, don't you, that in order for your food to arrive on your table, .....
» 28/06/2015 8:49:20 PM Isobel, I'm trying to defend you in an argument with an acquaintance who's arguing that yo.....
» 28/06/2015 8:42:29 PM Notice that all of the supporters of the ABC are completely unable to give any non-circula.....
» 28/06/2015 8:33:07 PM Aidan You're contradicting yourself. Firstly you yourself don't critically think about s.....
» 27/06/2015 11:24:44 PM Aidan So if all the States of the world got together and unanimously declared that obtaini.....
» 27/06/2015 11:19:43 PM You're contradicting yourself. If you admit compulsory funding, compulsory attendance an.....
» 26/06/2015 8:45:54 PM Aidan What are the answers to my questions? The policy you support is to provide educati.....
» 26/06/2015 8:36:21 PM Never mind old chap, your opinion that the Brisbane Times is the highest constitutional au.....
» 26/06/2015 3:31:24 PM Okay, so the policy you support is to provide education for everyone in the world? Or all .....
» 26/06/2015 2:02:15 PM Aidan, you can't even bring yourself to admit that the compulsory funding, compulsory curr.....
» 26/06/2015 11:50:10 AM I don't know where anyone got the idea that government propaganda channels are essential t.....
» 26/06/2015 11:41:55 AM We can confidently assert that they are natural rights if one either a) agrees with them,.....
» 26/06/2015 11:35:45 AM Interesting article, Don. Yes, and yet, the discussion flounders from the outset on the de.....
» 26/06/2015 10:51:23 AM The ABC should be abolished. It is nauseating propaganda. Broadcast media is not a legitim.....
» 25/06/2015 9:55:17 PM Aidan You're contradicting yourself......
» 25/06/2015 9:54:54 AM State schooling should be abolished. It is precisely the talented and disadvantaged who su.....
» 24/06/2015 5:26:33 PM But Kellie, you think rights are whatever the government says they are, remember?.....
» 24/06/2015 5:24:24 PM You do understand, don't you, that what determines the constitutionality of a proposed law.....
» 24/06/2015 11:40:28 AM (cont.) “I declare I am appalled by, and condemn the moral depravity of current policy on.....
» 24/06/2015 11:36:23 AM I identify the moral and intellectual fakery of Isobel’s article as lying in the fact that.....
» 23/06/2015 9:14:51 PM Craig Since you don’t understand what you’re talking about, I’ll explain it to you one m.....
» 23/06/2015 8:35:09 PM Q. Why did the farmer call his pet parrot "Onan"? A. Because he spilled his see.....
» 20/06/2015 7:28:57 PM All Notice how Craig Minns ignores the fact that he's just been disproved on every point h.....
» 20/06/2015 6:09:17 PM CM "The Parliament can make whatever laws it likes, but it is in the execution of tho.....
» 19/06/2015 9:15:55 PM I also find it bemusing, to say the least, to have a Muslim talk down to Australians about.....
» 19/06/2015 9:05:20 PM Craig Minns Au contraire, it is you who don't understand Parliamentary sovereignty. Wha.....
» 19/06/2015 12:37:20 PM Craig Minns Your argument was lost in the 17th century, so it's a bit late. The doctrine .....
» 19/06/2015 9:55:54 AM Interesting article. It's amazing that journalism has survived as long as it has when yo.....
» 19/06/2015 9:38:28 AM Kuranda, the clause of the Magna Carta that you cited invalidates your argument. Didn't yo.....
» 17/06/2015 9:48:37 PM Typical self-contradictory leftwing academic. Young Australians of Muslim parents, subjec.....
» 17/06/2015 9:30:44 PM The author's account of the origins of the law of nationality is not correct. Both the m.....
» 16/06/2015 9:51:24 AM "Yes, I'll pay them as they arise." Good. They're arising now. You can start by.....
» 15/06/2015 11:48:50 PM You're right: being on the Left is about saying you don't care about costs, when you're no.....
» 15/06/2015 10:31:02 PM How about your place?.....
» 15/06/2015 7:12:40 PM Loudmouth finding he can't defend his ideas, instantly descends into personal abuse, ho hu.....
» 13/06/2015 9:08:56 PM Yes, Loudmouth, it probably would work. I was reading today about Robert Clive's victory a.....
» 12/06/2015 7:57:22 PM "that anybody born in Australia is thereby an Australian citizen. I'm not sure that'.....
» 12/06/2015 12:49:51 PM Nerds like introspecting about why they are still virgins......
» 12/06/2015 12:43:44 PM The Myanmar government and people figure they need an influx of Muslims like they need a h.....
» 7/06/2015 11:32:49 AM By the way, these 9 million people going on overseas holidays and playing on the internet,.....
» 7/06/2015 11:15:39 AM You forgot the mid-brain. This is the part responsible for bleating wanting to run with th.....
» 1/06/2015 9:56:23 AM Good article, and hear hear. "when we confessed to being in a de facto relationship.....
» 14/04/2015 1:25:34 PM I think the minimum wage should be $100,000. Anything less than that is not fair......
» 14/04/2015 1:22:07 PM Yes, it already exists. Sheep farmers can achieve the same effect by storing their wool .....
» 14/04/2015 1:15:04 PM All you have to know about teaching in this country is that McDonalds have to provide free.....
» 30/03/2015 1:24:51 PM Wendy, the distinguishing feature of grown-ups - unlike children and public servants so-ca.....
» 2/03/2015 3:50:55 PM "What will it take for you to recognise that the public sector is capable of producti.....
» 2/03/2015 9:06:03 AM Amanda, in case you haven't noticed, information is now available as never before. The ide.....
» 26/02/2015 3:37:58 PM Craig, you can try dribbling your prostate somewhere else, obviously that argument satisfi.....
» 25/02/2015 8:04:59 PM It is not my reasoning, but Junaid’s reasoning that is specious: 1. Of all Muslims, there .....
» 25/02/2015 6:39:49 PM Craig "the problem that is being described in the article is not to do with Islam, bu.....
» 25/02/2015 3:11:54 PM Craig Why do you say it's specious reasoning, to reason that Muslims must either consider .....
» 25/02/2015 11:18:11 AM How can you say Hicks was not a terrorist, or the Taliban were not terrorist, because they.....
» 25/02/2015 10:25:09 AM The question is not whether ISIS would fail the most basic test of Islam according to Max .....
» 24/02/2015 9:18:46 AM ybgirp I said there were no major world wars. You misrepresented me as saying there wer.....
» 23/02/2015 8:19:50 PM ybgirp Yes indeedy. I hope you're not a statist are you? "And you say there has bee.....
» 23/02/2015 11:03:13 AM Interesting article. Presumably the ICJ would send its sheriff to enforce its judgment. .....
» 23/02/2015 8:29:39 AM Barry, until you understand and come to terms with the economic calculation argument, it j.....
» 17/02/2015 9:11:40 AM (cont.) JKJ: “So why didn’t you answer my question?” Warmists: “Embarrassment at being .....
» 17/02/2015 9:07:14 AM Ho hum, more vacuous ad hominem and circularity - and nothing else - from the warmists. .....
» 15/02/2015 4:07:39 PM Joe That wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt, because then they would still have .....
» 15/02/2015 3:30:08 PM "JKJ your original premise is wrong in suggesting that climate change is a "supe.....
» 15/02/2015 1:30:42 PM ant Unless you can show that a climate policy is justified, there is nothing for me to sl.....
» 15/02/2015 12:17:51 PM ant You have not understood what the discussion is about, and you have got the onus of pro.....
» 15/02/2015 11:43:51 AM NC/McAdam We have already established that you think slavery, armed robbery, rape, mass m.....
» 14/02/2015 6:20:06 PM All Notice how the warmists have nothing but: - refusing to answer the question that would.....
» 13/02/2015 5:27:48 PM Sells, Craig That assumes that religion is a kind of attempt to understand reality. If it .....
» 13/02/2015 1:48:25 PM ant So you're saying I'm a "denier", but when I ask you what I'm denying, you do.....
» 13/02/2015 11:45:50 AM Ant “JKJ, it is quite remarkable that you are disputing basic science that has been known .....
» 13/02/2015 8:48:42 AM "Critics like the Australian Education Union and Trevor Cobbold, from Save Our School.....
» 12/02/2015 11:28:26 PM All I would like to know, do you call geometry, mathematics and logic "science".....
» 12/02/2015 9:34:18 PM Andrew Farran "In short that is how the Court divided in this case." No it didn.....
» 12/02/2015 8:51:36 PM "... while in the modern scientific endeavour it [moral grounding] is provided by an .....
» 12/02/2015 7:06:27 PM (cont.) Which means we have just established that there is no rational justification for .....
» 12/02/2015 7:01:07 PM Ant No-one has ever denied that the climate changes, so the rest of your post is irrelevan.....
» 12/02/2015 6:59:56 PM Craig What do you think of thinkers such as Pythagoras or Euclid? Do you call that scien.....
» 11/02/2015 1:48:30 PM See what sense you can make of the High Court’s reasoning in the recent case of Plaintiff .....
» 11/02/2015 11:27:09 AM mikk You have not understood the issues. The question is not mitigation per se. Any quest.....
» 11/02/2015 9:41:47 AM All Notice how Bugsys' reply consists of nothing but ad hom, circularity, and appeal to ab.....
» 11/02/2015 8:37:00 AM Good point. Bricks-and-mortar universities as promoting life advantage through better sexu.....
» 11/02/2015 8:26:51 AM The idea that adverse weather events are caused by man's moral fault is the oldest superst.....
» 10/02/2015 4:17:49 PM For a demonstration why the left wing are champion haters, hypocrites and whingers, you co.....
» 10/02/2015 1:20:00 PM Craig "Peter, JKJ, et al, evolution is nothing special." It's special to me......
» 10/02/2015 9:47:26 AM Sells So-called social Darwinism is not Darwinism of any kind because a) Darwin never advo.....
» 9/02/2015 11:15:07 PM stevenlmeyer Trying to gauge temperature changes by ad hominem argument and appeal to aut.....
» 9/02/2015 11:00:24 PM Rhostry How do you define the difference between excessive and non-excessive interest?.....
» 9/02/2015 10:58:11 PM diver dan At risk of discussing with an offensive childish moron, you haven't established.....
» 9/02/2015 9:23:47 PM Sells "The attempt by biologists to describe this phenomenon in terms of evolutionar.....
» 9/02/2015 3:25:54 PM CM It's in response to the author's article, so I can't expand on it other than in relati.....
» 9/02/2015 1:36:17 PM Craig Minns "JKJ. the problem with the view you expound above is that it precludes a.....
» 9/02/2015 9:57:01 AM Max, you write as if 'fairness' means whatever your opinion of it is. You forget that ever.....
» 7/02/2015 11:31:12 PM " is the fact economics is not a science in strict terms." Obviously if your on.....
» 7/02/2015 3:44:13 PM NC You must not have been reading what you've written. You have already agreed that it'.....
» 6/02/2015 4:27:13 PM Diver dan "All the past is not yet buried though is it." Certainly it isn't, ho.....
» 6/02/2015 8:51:19 AM I find one of the characteristics of "truthiness" as distinct from truth, is pur.....
» 6/02/2015 8:16:51 AM I don't see why the pejorative "vulture" is appropriate. They're not tearing the.....
» 5/02/2015 8:44:34 AM LEGO There's a lot of heart attacks from butter too isn't there, so presumably people traf.....
» 5/02/2015 8:17:10 AM How can you talk about de-politicising infrastructure when you're talking about politicall.....
» 3/02/2015 10:45:25 AM diver dan Your belief that totalitarian government would make the poor wealthier is plain.....
» 3/02/2015 10:28:17 AM Don, any theory is only as good as the facts it is based on. I think the problem with yo.....
» 2/02/2015 9:57:28 PM NC Do you think your dishonesty and stupidity is not obvious to even a casual onlooker? .....
» 2/02/2015 12:54:21 PM By the way, here is Charlie Hebdo's take on the burqa. Translation: "Yes to wearing .....
» 2/02/2015 12:39:54 PM Ayatollah you already: I said hijab, not head-job!.....
» 1/02/2015 2:52:52 PM Susie Why do you think we don't see publications aimed at female consumers, showing pictu.....
» 1/02/2015 2:47:14 PM "Go ahead with your why do you think it was okay for them to “kill sons and daughter .....
» 31/01/2015 10:58:01 AM Susie Okay then, if you are suggesting that women should equally like looking at mens' *c.....
» 31/01/2015 10:51:47 AM Sorry, busy for a few days. I clarify as follows: 1- You agree that the New Testament o.....
» 28/01/2015 8:49:56 AM Perhaps you're going to tell us if it was good enough for Chaucer, it's good enough for yo.....
» 27/01/2015 7:48:23 PM "Do you think that the New Testament says that ‘Anyone who curses their father or mot.....
» 27/01/2015 12:45:56 PM Killarney "In fact, you haven't a clue what my premise was." Well why don't you.....
» 27/01/2015 12:34:31 PM NC "Do you think New Testament (NOT Judaism) is right, from current standards of its.....
» 26/01/2015 11:08:22 AM McAdam It's not that I'm being repetitive, it's that you're being evasive. Answer the que.....
» 26/01/2015 8:37:36 AM Killarney You haven't established that there's anything "inferior" about a woman.....
» 25/01/2015 10:10:06 AM Craig Good point. And what about voters?.....
» 25/01/2015 9:58:52 AM "Democracy is unquestionably good." The principle that the majority, by being t.....
» 25/01/2015 9:48:06 AM Bottom line is this. The author is suggesting that there's something exploitative, coerciv.....
» 25/01/2015 9:31:16 AM McAdam Do you agree with killing people for their religious beliefs, or not? If not, wh.....
» 24/01/2015 9:02:23 AM "That's simply a neutral observation of how power is distributed across the genders i.....
» 23/01/2015 4:14:28 PM The fact that men like looking at women's breasts doesn't mean its some kind of abuse or i.....
» 23/01/2015 12:17:22 PM "What I am wondering is if there is 41% female readership of this paper, why they don.....
» 23/01/2015 8:29:53 AM "How can we do this in a humane way?" BJ, it costs nothing but money. Perhaps i.....
» 23/01/2015 8:17:11 AM The article assumes that democracy is a good thing, whereas the point of departure - popul.....
» 23/01/2015 8:01:39 AM Underlying this lemon-sucking article is the man-hating idea that there's something wrong .....
» 22/01/2015 10:11:21 AM An asylum-seeker who is recognised as a refugee on Manus Island, and first re-settled in P.....
» 19/01/2015 7:33:49 PM Craig Oh dear, instant descent into spiteful schoolyard personal abuse and false onus whe.....
» 19/01/2015 3:06:59 PM Craig >>The 'religion' that is most responsible for wars of aggression has nothing .....
» 19/01/2015 10:20:40 AM So by pointing to what you consume, you establish that it's not more than enough? Very con.....
» 19/01/2015 9:37:50 AM The 'what about the Christians/Buddhists?' argument is just so stupid. Firstly, in case yo.....
» 17/01/2015 10:57:11 PM NC/McAdam/Craig: Do you think it's okay for a 54-year old man to have sex with a 9 year o.....
» 17/01/2015 3:34:06 PM Craig "no attempt to understand" You are lying. I have made lots of attempts t.....
» 17/01/2015 8:50:03 AM One way to make parliament work better would be to give any member of the public a right t.....
» 17/01/2015 12:16:56 AM NC Do you think your evasion and intellectual dishonesty aren't obvious to even a casual .....
» 16/01/2015 1:05:58 PM "Is there any of my posts that suggests to you a ‘yes’ from me to this outrageous que.....
» 16/01/2015 11:40:06 AM NC/McAdam Do you think it's okay to kill people who don't agree with your religious opini.....
» 15/01/2015 9:31:53 PM NC Do you think it's okay to kill people who don't agree with your religious opinion?.....
» 15/01/2015 6:05:50 PM McAdam/NC Do you think it's okay to kill people who don't agree with your religious opini.....
» 15/01/2015 12:56:46 PM So much the better if she's female I imagine......
» 15/01/2015 8:31:26 AM kactuz "The 'more women in hell' theory really doesn’t make sense, if we crunch the n.....
» 15/01/2015 8:03:51 AM Susie You can believe there's no connection between what people believe, and what they do.....
» 15/01/2015 8:01:41 AM Steeleredux Is that the best you can do? He's not saying persecute anyone, is he?.....
» 14/01/2015 10:09:16 PM R0bert "Jardine K. Jardine, the christian scriptures have enough places with command.....
» 14/01/2015 9:53:53 PM Very interesting video Arjay. He certainly doesn't appear to be shot at all. As you say,.....
» 14/01/2015 5:24:24 PM Pussy galore, what's not to like? Where do I sign up?.....
» 14/01/2015 4:10:31 PM Talk of Christians is irrelevant. Even if there was a general problem - which there isn't .....
» 14/01/2015 4:01:06 PM The most practical solution is also the most simple and ethical: everyone who agrees with .....
» 14/01/2015 3:54:42 PM Susie Didn't you know that Muslims believe in Mohammed and the Koran? Derr. What did Je.....
» 12/01/2015 2:18:13 PM NathanJ Interesting. What is a 'sovereign citizen'? The article doesn't say. And is the.....
» 12/01/2015 9:12:26 AM Good article. Anyone with passing familiarity with the Koran and hadith can see that the .....
» 10/01/2015 3:25:51 PM Big Nana The issue does not concern those who want to live, but those who want to die......
» 9/01/2015 10:17:06 PM Because God wants to......
» 9/01/2015 11:39:14 AM Constance, your second last link goes through to an article with no comments following......
» 9/01/2015 11:06:47 AM Good article. I am up on this since in the last three years having had the care of both .....
» 9/01/2015 9:00:09 AM Aidan Can you see that any question of what the tax base or tax rate should be, presuppose.....
» 8/01/2015 6:07:13 PM Jay Yes I agree. I was only joking......
» 8/01/2015 3:50:29 PM I think I speak for McAdam and NC, not to mention politicians and the MSM, when I say that.....
» 8/01/2015 7:52:59 AM An important contribution on a pressing social issue. As an "O"ist myself, I m.....
» 8/01/2015 7:45:07 AM The best Christian worship is the imitation of Christ......
» 8/01/2015 7:42:45 AM Look I do appreciate the fact that you are in earnest, and that you recognise that circula.....
» 6/01/2015 2:43:33 PM I don't see why it should be called disruption rather than freedom. All that's happening i.....
» 5/01/2015 10:02:32 PM All Marko's article means is that he doesn't understand the terms he's using. No school of.....
» 3/01/2015 9:58:48 AM "Your accusation that I've no criterion for human rights is an outright lie." I.....
» 3/01/2015 8:14:59 AM "Why don't you?" There's no use asking me questions, or pretending to engage in.....
» 31/12/2014 8:02:59 AM Garble garble yarp yarp. A jumble of unfalsifiable propositions. "it is sometimes s.....
» 30/12/2014 9:19:31 AM No-one is blaming all Muslims for the actions of a few terrorists. The question is wheth.....
» 29/12/2014 10:34:17 PM But what kind of moral principle is it to say that slavery may be justified if it’s preval.....
» 29/12/2014 10:28:05 PM Craig Nothing you have said relates to the subject matter of the discussion. You are just .....
» 29/12/2014 7:18:38 AM McAdam You've come all this way and you still haven't answered my question. Just leave ou.....
» 28/12/2014 7:38:01 PM NC/McAdam Obviously, a lot of your co-religionists don’t agree with your interpretation of.....
» 28/12/2014 5:08:17 PM NC/McAdam So you want us to believe that the Koran authorises the enslavement of women, b.....
» 28/12/2014 7:23:48 AM McAdam "SUBSTANTIATE THE LIE YOU ARE TRYING TO PEDDLE" 1. assuming what is in .....
» 27/12/2014 11:07:47 PM "But the source of the money does not determine the spending efficiency, so why do yo.....
» 27/12/2014 8:38:04 PM NC/McAdam/Junaid 1. Pakistani issue You need to decide whether the Pakistani issue is rel.....
» 27/12/2014 2:50:42 PM McAdam Are you saying that no part of the Koran preaches or authorises the killing, ensla.....
» 27/12/2014 8:33:46 AM McAdam Just answer the question. Are you saying that no part of the Koran preaches or aut.....
» 26/12/2014 8:34:35 PM Aidan Re-circulating your stupid circularity doesn't make it make sense. It just means y.....
» 26/12/2014 8:17:00 PM Poirot Notice how NC/McAdam/Junaid believes in violence but can't bring himself either to.....
» 26/12/2014 6:45:21 PM Junaid/NC/McAdam Do you think it's okay to kill, enslave or rape non-Muslims in accordanc.....
» 26/12/2014 12:05:53 PM McAdam 1. How is the question, whether Pakistanis are rising up against terrorism as a na.....
» 26/12/2014 7:54:16 AM McAdam By nation I mean the people at large, all the people in the territory of a state. .....
» 25/12/2014 6:56:49 PM NC I notice you didn't answer my question. Let's get one thing straight. If someone advo.....
» 25/12/2014 4:18:17 PM McAdam/NC/Junaid I think your are confusing "the nation as a whole" with the st.....
» 23/12/2014 11:55:05 AM Aidan, your problem is that you think North Korea is the ideal form of government. We have.....
» 23/12/2014 9:13:53 AM The grand flaw in all discussion of "reforming the tax base" is that it starts f.....
» 22/12/2014 8:56:44 AM Certainly it's nothing to feel cynical about. What is to feel cynical about is whether *.....
» 20/12/2014 12:08:36 PM The fact you get emotional and abusive about it, doesn't mean that the facts of Islam don'.....
» 20/12/2014 8:56:52 AM Loving thy neighbour is a great idea, and I'm all for it. However a) you got that idea f.....
» 20/12/2014 6:04:15 AM Camo According to your theory, the fact that Mohammed was a homicidal maniac who claimed .....
» 19/12/2014 9:34:33 PM Camo, you can ignore the facts and pretend all you like that Islam had nothing to do with .....
» 18/12/2014 5:45:09 PM theHypocrisy What would you accept as refuting the arguments in the article?.....
» 18/12/2014 11:44:23 AM (cont.) Islam has neither of those advantages. ISIS's idea of moral excellence is Mohamme.....
» 18/12/2014 11:41:24 AM I looked on in disbelief as the ABC tried to paint the issue as one of Muslim women being .....
» 17/12/2014 6:51:15 PM theHypocrisy Does the Koran sanction the killing of unbelievers, or not? Does the Koran s.....
» 17/12/2014 12:26:58 PM Junaid, perhaps you're right. Perhaps it was just a strange coincidence that the guy was a.....
» 10/12/2014 10:51:35 PM "also there's no credible mechanism for people to magically lose their ability to eco.....
» 10/12/2014 10:39:01 PM "Nonsense about Australia being high taxed. It is low taxed; second lowest of 22 OECD.....
» 10/12/2014 10:33:16 PM Are you honestly suggesting the ABC is impartial and unbiased? I can think of only two pos.....
» 4/12/2014 7:55:55 PM "However I do assume that people with the ability to economise don't magically lose t.....
» 4/12/2014 5:43:04 PM Obviously if government is presumptively superior at economising, then there's no such thi.....
» 4/12/2014 5:34:35 PM Loudmouth In case you haven't noticed, feminism isn't about women having 'the same rights.....
» 4/12/2014 5:28:55 PM Aidan No-one's talking about "people with no money". Bank robbers can "d.....
» 4/12/2014 12:07:55 PM Roses1 You've got it back the front in a number of ways. A policy needs to be justified.....
» 4/12/2014 10:39:46 AM There is no such thing as a right to use force and killing and invasion and occupation so .....
» 2/12/2014 7:18:02 PM If you can't see the circularity of your argument, then you're too stupid to continue, and.....
» 2/12/2014 3:58:55 PM Tristan Stop trying to snivel your way out of it. Aidan You have gone in circles so much.....
» 2/12/2014 3:09:49 PM James For your information, I have argued refugee cases all over Australia for over 20 yea.....
» 2/12/2014 12:52:03 PM James O'Neill I am not going to be sent on an errand to construct your argument for you. .....
» 2/12/2014 12:45:42 PM Well said, Aidan. While ever people have wants that can be satisfied by human effort, th.....
» 2/12/2014 10:05:26 AM Aidan "By regionally appropriate I mean the interest rate should be adjusted to take .....
» 1/12/2014 7:36:58 PM Let me see if I can explain it another way. Suppose the government builds a railway out .....
» 1/12/2014 6:56:56 PM Aidan "What about the resources freed up by the productivity increase the infrastruct.....
» 1/12/2014 11:16:18 AM Tristan Repeating false beliefs doesn't make them true. "There is more than one way .....
» 1/12/2014 9:24:18 AM "Arguably no state government in the country has secured the revenue necessary to sus.....
» 30/11/2014 7:59:00 PM Aidan You are arguing in a circle. The question is *WHETHER* the laws you support are j.....
» 30/11/2014 7:48:26 PM James O'Neill "They consistently fail to address the issues." You are lying. I.....
» 29/11/2014 10:25:12 PM Contempt of court means interfering with the administration of justice, it doesn't mean ac.....
» 28/11/2014 4:23:16 PM I thought a worthwhile national purpose would be publicly funded bare-breasted dancing gir.....
» 27/11/2014 10:36:20 PM James O'Neill I didn't get your signed Declaration of Trust. Perhaps you signed it and st.....
» 27/11/2014 12:47:08 PM Isobel, James Great news! No need to worry about it any more. I've got the solution. Jus.....
» 27/11/2014 12:25:20 PM James O'Neill We have already repeatedly established that your claims that Australia's po.....
» 25/11/2014 1:08:24 PM freddington No-one's holding a gun to anyone's head you idiot - that's what you and the au.....
» 22/11/2014 10:05:32 PM I believe the overpopulation problem is pretty bad round at your place too ateday?.....
» 15/11/2014 9:59:57 AM (Correction: this *has* logical consequences.) If your theory that women are undervalued .....
» 15/11/2014 9:54:12 AM I always get a good laugh when economic illiterates pretend to make an argument based on e.....
» 10/11/2014 1:23:51 PM Not good enough, sorry. I am not to be sent on an errand to construct your argument for .....
» 10/11/2014 8:40:59 AM I prefer just plain old physical paternity. Keeps thing simple. The value of the paterna.....
» 9/11/2014 9:57:19 PM David "You need to provide links to specific comments." I'm just reflecting bac.....
» 9/11/2014 9:41:57 PM Aidan You argue that paying tax and complying with law is voluntary. You are lying. You.....
» 9/11/2014 4:32:06 PM David Your first paragraph runs into the economic calculation problem. You went out backwa.....
» 8/11/2014 9:47:53 PM Foyle "The primer makes the point that it is not political and that MMT is based on .....
» 8/11/2014 9:43:52 PM David McMullen "With stuff like healthcare and education, I think the important thing.....
» 8/11/2014 9:35:47 PM Aidan Your entire argument comes down to the proposition that, as concerns our differences.....
» 8/11/2014 9:04:09 AM Anything that is the result of human effort cannot be "free" and it is mere chil.....
» 5/11/2014 8:56:24 AM All politics relies on the state's claim of a monopoly of the use of coercion. It is this .....
» 4/11/2014 11:55:11 PM Arjay You believe in a government right to print money, remember?.....
» 4/11/2014 11:53:25 PM "You seem to want to ... ignore most other rights. Why?" There's no such thing .....
» 4/11/2014 10:24:40 PM Estelle "where will all those difficult clients that no-one wants go?" You and .....
» 4/11/2014 10:16:18 PM Yes and apparently there's a lot of cruelty to bacteria out there, too. At least the auth.....
» 4/11/2014 10:15:04 PM byork You're just confused over names. According to your theory, any product of social c.....
» 4/11/2014 10:08:14 PM David Everything that you have argued on economic theory has already been totally demolish.....
» 4/11/2014 10:04:50 PM Aidan “Yes, you do seem incapable of understanding all but the most simplistic arguments......
» 3/11/2014 10:11:33 PM David Your foolery has been completely demolished here http://mises.org/Books/mespm.PDF. .....
» 3/11/2014 10:06:19 PM You’ve tried denying violence is violence when the government does it. But not even the go.....
» 3/11/2014 10:04:26 PM I can’t see how you can’t see that you’re caught in a self-contradiction that invalidates .....
» 3/11/2014 9:07:33 AM Aidan Your entire argument that you don’t support aggressive violence to force people to s.....
» 3/11/2014 8:28:16 AM NathanJ Yes, interesting. You would wonder how council could possibly present itself as pr.....
» 2/11/2014 3:55:37 PM David You seem unable to understand the distinction between means of production (ie interm.....
» 2/11/2014 3:53:25 PM Barry "I know this is impossible to you, but you may actually be wrong." In cas.....
» 2/11/2014 9:33:35 AM So are you saying that Marx stood for the private ownership of the means of production?.....
» 2/11/2014 9:21:33 AM byork Notice how you've just descended into personal argument without even attempting to a.....
» 2/11/2014 9:02:06 AM byork 1. Given that you have failed to understand the most basic concepts in Marx's theor.....
» 1/11/2014 11:06:53 AM Peter Lang and Roses1 There's a site called debate.org which being set up for exactly thi.....
» 1/11/2014 2:30:51 AM NathanJ “There is too much force worldwide, but simply avoiding discussion on what could b.....
» 1/11/2014 2:26:56 AM Therefore that’s a *complete failure* on your part to demonstrate that government can *eve.....
» 1/11/2014 2:19:55 AM Aidan, the threat of enforcement underlies ALL law and policy. Policy means police-y. It m.....
» 1/11/2014 2:16:08 AM Aidan 1. Ethics So we have now established by your own admission that you think it’s okay.....
» 31/10/2014 4:26:36 PM byork and David Obviously if the means of production are privately owned, that's not what.....
» 31/10/2014 1:57:52 PM byork So your dream is a situation where everyone has to ask the permission of everyone e.....
» 31/10/2014 9:00:22 AM "Through the knowledge and choices that the new communications technologies allow to .....
» 30/10/2014 9:12:01 PM All the points you raised, about infrastructure, monopoly, externalities etc. assume that .....
» 30/10/2014 9:00:32 PM 2. You would have to show that the government use of resources to provide a particular goo.....
» 30/10/2014 8:52:13 PM All these points are economically related: the use of coerced versus consensual transacti.....
» 30/10/2014 8:44:15 PM Aidan 1. Ethics “you seem to be the only confused one. The bit about the threat of violen.....
» 29/10/2014 11:50:10 AM Roses1 We've already established that you're lying and cannot provide any rational basis f.....
» 29/10/2014 9:28:00 AM ‘You don’t see me banging on about property being based on violence even though exactly th.....
» 29/10/2014 9:02:39 AM “But when the policies are law, the law should be enforced. “ So you have just *admitted*.....
» 29/10/2014 8:44:56 AM Aidan, you’re displaying total confusion. You do understand, don’t you, that if you init.....
» 29/10/2014 7:35:58 AM The big multinational green groups and foundations, big industrials, big financial houses,.....
» 28/10/2014 7:32:31 PM "Questions that have a false assumption built into them" I notice you didn't ha.....
» 28/10/2014 7:46:41 AM Hi Allen Interesting article and good questions. The measure of number of papers publis.....
» 28/10/2014 6:58:09 AM You answer my prior questions first. They prove there’s no argument for me to answer. Al.....
» 27/10/2014 3:54:01 PM Stop trying to evade the question and just have the intellectual honesty to answer it. W.....
» 27/10/2014 12:26:21 PM You still haven't told us how socialism can be implemented without violence? At what stag.....
» 26/10/2014 7:33:55 PM Aiden Oh I didn’t realise that everything you were suggesting was to be voluntary. Yuyut.....
» 26/10/2014 7:34:47 AM Aidan You haven’t proved what’s in issue, so that’s a fail, I’m afraid. You’re just back.....
» 25/10/2014 4:10:29 PM It is through profit and loss that the masses exercise direction over the whole process an.....
» 25/10/2014 4:05:14 PM The original, perpetual, definitive, economic problem is the need to allocate scarce resou.....
» 25/10/2014 4:01:29 PM Let’s start from common ground: • full socialism is not desirable • partial socialism, gov.....
» 25/10/2014 1:30:57 PM Roses1 Is that the best you can do? You raise a lot of off-topic issues. But it is suff.....
» 24/10/2014 3:17:49 PM “… your arguments are full of [logical errors].” Maybe so, but you haven’t identified any.....
» 24/10/2014 10:50:49 AM “Wind and solar are profitable while there is a RET target, which mandates a certain porti.....
» 24/10/2014 10:04:11 AM I respectfully suggest that, if you try falsifying instead of trying to confirm your propo.....
» 24/10/2014 9:59:05 AM “Then how do you know that throwing in *anyone* does? “Are you really incapable of providi.....
» 24/10/2014 9:55:57 AM “All the evidence I've seen shows they can…” Experience cannot beat logic. You’re assumin.....
» 23/10/2014 12:05:33 PM Roses1 If what you're saying is true, then obviously there's no need for any government po.....
» 23/10/2014 8:07:43 AM "Attacking environmentalists might be good theatre but it doesn't solve the problems......
» 22/10/2014 3:59:37 PM A nauseating orgy of fawning statolatry over the death of Whitlam. Can't count the number.....
» 22/10/2014 3:40:36 PM 5 “The fifth reason is the overproliferationn of lawyers in some parts of the private sect.....
» 22/10/2014 3:35:09 PM (cont.) b) Double standard. You haven’t explained why the same, or worse, won’t apply to .....
» 22/10/2014 3:28:57 PM You have no legal remedy whatsoever against them for taking billions on false misrepresent.....
» 22/10/2014 3:25:09 PM Aidan "Infrastructure differs from other capital goods by being geographically fixed.....
» 21/10/2014 9:57:48 AM David Havyatt “Senator Leyonhjelm has misled readers about the NBN in three crucial ways. .....
» 20/10/2014 8:45:45 PM PS Remember it has to be a rational demonstration. You can't just assume or assert it, whi.....
» 20/10/2014 8:06:09 PM Aidan I had hoped to reply to you this evening but something has come up and I'll try tomo.....
» 20/10/2014 9:52:50 AM Charles Darwin once observed a fish in an aquarium collide full-pelt with its reflection i.....
» 20/10/2014 8:32:22 AM Mal Perhaps you should have looked up the definition of commodity before writing an articl.....
» 20/10/2014 8:08:21 AM Aidan Where did you get the idea that government is some kind of efficiency-generating dev.....
» 19/10/2014 3:48:06 PM David Sorry, not good enough. Firstly, you need to make your argument in here. I am not.....
» 19/10/2014 3:22:10 PM As P.J. O'Rourke said, everyone wants to fight for a better world, no-one wants to help Mu.....
» 18/10/2014 11:26:28 PM Really it's just a more complicated version of "Wouldn't it be nice if everyone was n.....
» 18/10/2014 10:59:59 PM David I think you deserve credit for at least recognizing the problem. Almost all socialis.....
» 18/10/2014 11:05:22 AM 4. “So what can ameliorate the excesses of capitalism ?” You’re still doing what the so.....
» 18/10/2014 11:04:05 AM Joe Yep, okay, consider us moved on from accepting that full socialism is no good. The .....
» 17/10/2014 9:52:52 PM Joe You're not comparing apples with apples. The people accepting those jobs in third wo.....
» 17/10/2014 9:31:17 PM Bernie "JKJ, you may have established in your own mind that there is no rational just.....
» 17/10/2014 9:18:08 PM Divergence Biologists do not comment on human values in their capacity as biologists, beca.....
» 17/10/2014 8:19:13 PM Notice how none of the socialists will answer the question? The reason is, obviously, beca.....
» 17/10/2014 10:17:40 AM The teaching of grammar went out when I was in 3rd grade. I managed to pick up a lot infor.....
» 16/10/2014 10:18:46 PM byork You have not shown that I have misrepresented you. The problem isn't misrepresent.....
» 16/10/2014 10:02:35 PM David "If you make something for your own use (or as a gift) it is part of the consum.....
» 16/10/2014 8:22:00 PM byork So you're going to cure poverty by mass starvation? How stupid would someone have t.....
» 15/10/2014 9:12:39 PM Why is it a "misrepresentation" to say that capitalists purchase inputs? Do you .....
» 15/10/2014 8:42:25 PM Byork Even if someone made a meal or a chair at home, wouldn't they always be involved in .....
» 15/10/2014 8:24:22 PM Bernie I agree with your post and with Peter Lang’s where there is any inconsistency. “.....
» 15/10/2014 1:09:29 PM I'm only trying to find out what would be an example of something that was "things pr.....
» 15/10/2014 9:04:51 AM Had the palliative care in my home until death of my aged demented cancer-ridden mother-in.....
» 15/10/2014 9:00:39 AM And notice you changed your justification for predation and slavery? You were arguing it's.....
» 15/10/2014 8:58:49 AM EmperorJulian "The prey develop a state and task it (inter alia) to enact and enforc.....
» 15/10/2014 8:43:38 AM Poirot The Pope is an expert on the Virgin Birth. If the facts don't fit the theory, and .....
» 15/10/2014 8:40:21 AM byork "An example of private production is anything made by an individual." Wel.....
» 14/10/2014 5:52:16 PM Byork It sounds totally confused to me, but I would appreciate it if you could show me th.....
» 14/10/2014 1:55:02 PM david f No doubt you're right. However "the reality" is that murder, rape and.....
» 14/10/2014 1:51:48 PM Divergence "It may surprise you, Jardine, but there is a big difference between killi.....
» 14/10/2014 1:05:15 PM David G and t'other David "theological fairy tales and inane gobbledegook" You.....
» 14/10/2014 10:34:19 AM Bernie "Sorry if my original post wasn't clear enough to explain that I'm not focuse.....
» 13/10/2014 10:41:37 PM "In order to avoid making a suggestion that is not simply illogical..." Sorry, .....
» 13/10/2014 10:39:24 PM Bernie, your suggestions shows that you are not understanding the issues. Rationality re.....
» 13/10/2014 10:25:36 PM Poirot With science, when the data don't support the theory, you keep the data and throw o.....
» 13/10/2014 10:21:23 PM "Care to take it any further?" Yes. My underlying query is about the justificat.....
» 13/10/2014 9:51:05 PM "Cognitive dissonance can express itself in a belief that something is 'confused jumb.....
» 13/10/2014 9:19:48 AM No we don't. We don't need such research and we don't need such policy. All we need is P.....
» 13/10/2014 9:09:40 AM (cont.) "We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system f.....
» 13/10/2014 9:01:40 AM What a confused jumble. The first leftists were those who sat on the left side of the Fr.....
» 13/10/2014 8:34:13 AM "Yes, we can be in solidarity with women who 'choose' to wear it. But in doing so, we.....
» 13/10/2014 8:26:13 AM “And - the crucial question - can an entire species learn to shape its behavior, to its ow.....
» 12/10/2014 7:29:50 PM Killarney Stop trying to squirm out of it. Do you oppose the enforcement of all the poli.....
» 12/10/2014 7:25:02 PM halduell I largely agree with that, although I think the war on ISIS probably benefits a s.....
» 12/10/2014 7:14:00 PM Luciferase "The design of public policy always has winners and losers, but is for th.....
» 12/10/2014 12:11:33 AM "Perhaps you could pack your invective" Perhaps you could stop advocating killi.....
» 11/10/2014 11:55:12 PM "When JKJ's most forceful rebuttal is "You've lost the argument" - and &quo.....
» 11/10/2014 11:41:37 PM Poirot At no stage have you established any basis for saying that science supports anythin.....
» 11/10/2014 11:23:18 PM Poirot According to you there's nothing wrong with the government bombing whoever it wants.....
» 11/10/2014 5:50:22 PM There is no such natural right as social paternity. The father's DNA is the all the child .....
» 11/10/2014 8:07:58 AM Killarney So you're opposed to the enforcement of all the policies you advocate?.....
» 11/10/2014 1:22:42 AM Killarney But you think violence is fine as long as government's doing it, remember?.....
» 11/10/2014 1:10:55 AM Squeers That's just discursive fetishism on your part. Your populist equivocations just e.....
» 11/10/2014 12:35:10 AM Luciferase You've already lost the entire argument because you're unable to show any ratio.....
» 10/10/2014 5:36:01 PM "Perhaps the question to ask is in whose interest is that?" And what's your ans.....
» 10/10/2014 10:47:36 AM So there is this kind of schizophrenia in the worldview of statists of both left and right.....
» 10/10/2014 10:45:49 AM Great article John. I am sorry to say, you are back to what made you great. Your point a.....
» 10/10/2014 9:20:10 AM A social workers facile call for more social workers, hmmm. The whole article is predica.....
» 9/10/2014 4:25:18 PM "So, as an alternative, what about if..." You haven't established that there's .....
» 9/10/2014 12:28:33 PM “Can you point me to any reference where God said that Palestine is "consecrated for .....
» 9/10/2014 9:38:21 AM When all is said and done, the criminal expropriation of all the massive waste and loss – .....
» 9/10/2014 9:18:42 AM Thank you Alan for that article which puts things in perspective. This gets to the nub o.....
» 8/10/2014 1:38:27 PM Chris Only an idiot thinks that more tax makes society richer. If your theory is right, .....
» 8/10/2014 7:23:08 AM James O'Neill Interesting comment. So by what criterion do you distinguish governments .....
» 8/10/2014 7:15:49 AM I admit I don't see why the states established in the carve-up of the Ottoman empire, by t.....
» 7/10/2014 11:50:03 AM rehctub A monopoly means only one player. This means there is no monopoly on fuel by the.....
» 6/10/2014 8:38:16 PM plantagenet There is no such thing as market power......
» 6/10/2014 11:09:43 AM Max's article is about fairness but he doesn't define it or give any idea what he means by.....
» 4/10/2014 11:20:53 PM When I read the news these days, what with the black death and the crusades, I feel like I.....
» 3/10/2014 10:09:10 AM What's that supposed to mean? By saying 'power to the people' do you support using or thr.....
» 3/10/2014 10:03:16 AM Power, as in, using or threatening aggression?.....
» 3/10/2014 9:39:01 AM And your solution is more power to the governments?.....
» 3/10/2014 9:01:53 AM David G "The warmongers must be demonized, drummed out of town, held up to ridicule a.....
» 3/10/2014 8:47:39 AM PS Stop dishonestly calling it 'climate change'. Not even the high priests of your religio.....
» 3/10/2014 8:47:17 AM Repeating a false belief doesn't make it true, no matter how many people repeat it. Hasm.....
» 3/10/2014 7:36:50 AM Poirot What would you accept as disproving your beliefs in support of global warming poli.....
» 2/10/2014 3:37:18 PM warmair I repeat, even if all that were conceded, all you would have established is a posi.....
» 2/10/2014 2:26:44 PM Let's see if I've got this straight. During the high fashionability of fascist national .....
» 2/10/2014 11:52:57 AM Wow watch out Rhostry LOL - we'll make a libertarian of you yet, pretty soon you'll be con.....
» 2/10/2014 9:02:41 AM It's not a market for carbon, it's a market for tax receipts. Notice how intellectual di.....
» 2/10/2014 8:55:57 AM The ethical way to pay out the proceeds of sale would be to distribute them to the people .....
» 1/10/2014 1:42:58 PM Poirot While ever you lack any consistent principle for deciding whether government should.....
» 1/10/2014 1:39:11 PM Other people are not your property. People benefit society more by avoiding and evading .....
» 1/10/2014 10:00:30 AM warmair I'm not going to be sent on an errand to construct your argument for you. You ha.....
» 1/10/2014 9:00:47 AM A good article. Whatever the criticisms of the particular options, it is clear that, in or.....
» 1/10/2014 8:48:52 AM "The Prime Minister and his minions say that the safety of the Australian people is t.....
» 30/09/2014 4:46:41 PM warmair Notice how you don't join issue with anything I say, don't prove anything you all.....
» 30/09/2014 3:27:58 PM Beer for shearers is still tax deductible, and rightly so - you try getting 'em to come if.....
» 30/09/2014 9:09:48 AM "Of course when they say ‘climate change’they actually mean ‘catastrophic anthropogen.....
» 28/09/2014 11:12:50 PM Julian For the sake of intellectual honesty, could you please either answer my specific q.....
» 28/09/2014 8:56:06 PM Look at Tony, David and Poirot, all desperately trying to pretend as if their belief syste.....
» 28/09/2014 12:29:20 PM Julian Also, isn't "might is right" the opposite of a rule of just conduct? The .....
» 28/09/2014 12:22:54 PM Julian So in principle there's nothing wrong with shooting people dead or threatening to c.....
» 27/09/2014 11:34:49 PM Tony, David, Poirot What we've just established, is that even if all you allege about tem.....
» 27/09/2014 10:57:05 PM EmperorJulian Stop trying to squirm out of it. If it's a straw man to say you believe in .....
» 27/09/2014 6:08:40 PM EmperorJulian So you agree with predators enslaving people and shooting them to enforce ob.....
» 26/09/2014 11:49:45 AM Yes apparently that's the Africans' way of dealing with the Ebola problem: cut up health w.....
» 26/09/2014 11:48:35 AM Julian So you approve of predators shooting slaves, and the stronger and more aggressive e.....
» 26/09/2014 1:12:47 AM So ... why aren't you involved in the economic calculation problem in everything you say a.....
» 25/09/2014 12:58:44 AM Emperor Julian So the state should not be entitled to possess guns? We are going to get s.....
» 25/09/2014 12:48:30 AM Nicholas It was a question about monopoly not an argument per se. I can't see how you can.....
» 24/09/2014 8:36:07 PM ateday Too much of everyone else, just enough of you I suppose?.....
» 24/09/2014 8:33:34 PM Nicholas Yes indeedy. The question is how you know the difference. If the possibility of.....
» 24/09/2014 12:03:41 PM Maybe they should send an army to shoot the actual germs......
» 24/09/2014 12:02:01 PM Yuyutsu They're in a hurry to get an iPhone......
» 24/09/2014 9:47:11 AM I don't think there's too many people. I like people. Mind you, I live in the middle of no.....
» 24/09/2014 9:06:44 AM In the final analysis, goods and services can either be provided on the basis of the volun.....
» 23/09/2014 10:06:09 PM Is Mise "Wasn't there some law/legal instruction, enacted by the British, that was t.....
» 23/09/2014 10:51:49 AM A lot of the national anthem is unnecessary. I reckon if we just the leave the good part.....
» 23/09/2014 9:32:46 AM "Do we use our reason and logic, and conclude that this is an extreme, radical wing t.....
» 21/09/2014 9:20:29 PM byork, may I ask, did you and your wife ever exchange promises in the nature of marriage? .....
» 21/09/2014 9:10:27 PM "I would have thought that with over 90 per cent of people getting married at some st.....
» 20/09/2014 7:50:22 PM Killarney And do you equally support men's right to be liberated from the patriarchy, and .....
» 19/09/2014 11:30:34 PM This post reminds me of a famous local meeting of the Wild Dog Committee, attended by a lo.....
» 19/09/2014 7:33:10 PM Poirot, Tony, DavidK, What would you accept as disproving your beliefs in support of glob.....
» 19/09/2014 7:05:37 AM Although Magna Carta was important in establishing the principle of the rule of law, being.....
» 17/09/2014 11:47:14 PM Poirot is not a climatologist and therefore according to her own standard lacks the compet.....
» 17/09/2014 8:20:11 PM DavidK Do you concede that 1. relying on logical fallacies invalidates an argument? 2. a.....
» 17/09/2014 8:14:00 PM Can you see that supporting that is inconsistent with what you falsely called "FREE&q.....
» 17/09/2014 8:06:38 PM Perhaps you should consider a cuppa and a little lie down, Grim; you seem to be foaming at.....
» 17/09/2014 10:42:46 AM "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has often led Welcome to your gory b.....
» 16/09/2014 5:01:58 PM (cont.) Let’s have some consequences here. If it’s true that I can prove you categoricall.....
» 16/09/2014 4:58:59 PM DavidK What’s the point of discussing it, if I can prove what I’m saying is right and wha.....
» 16/09/2014 1:04:52 PM "debate about how to best run a global civilisation and how to generate the instituti.....
» 16/09/2014 12:57:36 PM Thanks Rhostry......
» 16/09/2014 10:50:33 AM Great article. "It could well be that the government needs to know exactly who is ma.....
» 16/09/2014 8:46:23 AM Peter Lang That assumes that the opponent's is motivated is to find out the truth, or at .....
» 16/09/2014 8:08:53 AM DavidK The pattern we keep seeing here is that the warmists enter all full of bustle and .....
» 15/09/2014 8:12:09 PM DavidK Okay, I admit I was wrong in saying this: "Jennifer didn't say that practice .....
» 15/09/2014 3:02:04 PM DavidK Jennifer didn't say that practice of homogenisation is indefensible, so you starte.....
» 15/09/2014 12:50:29 PM Good article. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has a great name, don't you think?.....
» 15/09/2014 12:32:45 PM DavidK Boring. If you think ad hominem is defensible, then you are no real scientists, .....
» 14/09/2014 10:29:43 PM LOL thanks Peter Lang, no I'm not confusing you, and thanks for your link to the climate w.....
» 14/09/2014 9:53:05 PM Poirot You are deliberately attempting to "skew" the topic of this thread which.....
» 14/09/2014 9:51:16 PM Peter-Pedo-Quim-Rimmer-Dim-Brain-Gram So is aggressive violence okay if done by governmen.....
» 13/09/2014 10:21:49 PM Poirot The fact you assume the government is justified in doing what you criticise it for .....
» 13/09/2014 6:56:46 PM Divergence They would be good policy suggestions if the aim was to make the working class .....
» 13/09/2014 6:52:48 PM Poirot Your evasion = intellectual dishonesty......
» 13/09/2014 5:31:30 PM Pericles "I strongly disapprove of the plethora of advertisements for pay-day loans .....
» 13/09/2014 5:28:23 PM Poirot So there's a 'budget emergency' is there? Has it ever occurred to you this has some.....
» 13/09/2014 5:25:11 PM Peter-Pedo-Quim-Rimmer-Dim-BrainGram Thank you for admitting the intellectual bankruptcy .....
» 12/09/2014 11:59:09 AM Poirot Oh, so at last you recognise that name-calling is not legitimate argument. Since mi.....
» 12/09/2014 11:43:38 AM Peder-Pedo Quim Rimmer Grim Fat Low, you’re talking about an “elected government” remember.....
» 12/09/2014 10:11:19 AM "Whoever wrote the article suffered an apparent inability to separate objective state.....
» 11/09/2014 8:27:55 PM Grim Fat Hed Lo Dung The author writes an article criticising the trend of fashionable pos.....
» 11/09/2014 8:15:51 PM Sometimes Grim Fat Low Dung, I really wonder if you bother reading your own posts, much le.....
» 11/09/2014 10:55:15 AM "I think of myself as a pro-family libertarian. My view is that government should be .....
» 10/09/2014 9:47:12 PM Yeah. Darwin married his first cousin, and they were actually even closer related, because.....
» 10/09/2014 1:27:13 PM Well do you agree with the article that it's bad for people to advocate genocide in the na.....
» 10/09/2014 1:14:01 PM Warmair, if you're right that wind power is cheaper than coal, and no less reliable, then .....
» 10/09/2014 1:08:03 PM Your gripe is precisely that democratic government isn't killing enough people, remember G.....
» 10/09/2014 9:50:28 AM Yes I was wondering how you would teach the Aboriginal perspective on trigonometry, Shakes.....
» 10/09/2014 9:40:11 AM "Islam allows the marrying of cousins" So does Australia. There's no law agains.....
» 10/09/2014 8:12:53 AM Look, settle it. Why don't all those who are in favour of accepting as many refugees as .....
» 10/09/2014 7:52:38 AM Well, the anti-human brigade sure are out in force today, aren't they? Amazing that such.....
» 8/09/2014 4:03:25 PM Yes, I thought Ludwig would be delighted at the prospect of thousands of millions of human.....
» 7/09/2014 2:06:14 PM “If Gibbons is correct, then this is fantastic, then what is known today as "Islam&qu.....
» 7/09/2014 9:29:42 AM “…Two short trading journeys to the fairs of Syria were surely not sufficient to infuse a .....
» 7/09/2014 9:28:39 AM Yuyutsu The various histories I have read on the life of Mohammed all agree on this point.....
» 5/09/2014 10:44:56 AM Reminds me of a girl I once knew. She told me her method of contraception was to lie the.....
» 5/09/2014 10:35:13 AM Ludwig, we have already established that you have no rational way of demonstrating that wh.....
» 4/09/2014 11:26:21 PM Yuyutsu, that is argument, not evidence, that Mohammed was literate. It's not like Mohamm.....
» 4/09/2014 10:57:32 PM Evasion to try to squirm out of being confronted over your self-contradiction backed up by.....
» 4/09/2014 10:59:08 AM How many old people are you employing, G'day Bruce?.....
» 4/09/2014 8:55:29 AM Don't have to go far before feminists give up their pretensions to be about gender equalit.....
» 3/09/2014 7:14:46 PM More dishonesty from Poirot ho hum. You're the one who supports violence without limit to .....
» 3/09/2014 7:06:26 PM Yvonne “Jardine, I'm sure in your mind your comment is relevant.” I used to think that f.....
» 3/09/2014 5:13:19 PM Big Nana You need to understand that Poirot doesn't care that what she's saying is untrue......
» 3/09/2014 4:10:22 PM "Mohammed was not illiterate either." He was according to Edward Gibbon and all.....
» 3/09/2014 12:16:52 PM yvonne So do you support a man's right to financial abortion?.....
» 3/09/2014 12:01:05 PM Hear hear. The fear, but not the loathing, of ISIS is almost entirely unjustified. Islam.....
» 3/09/2014 11:40:31 AM Not sure what you think a Royal Commission into asylum seeker 'policy' would achieve that .....
» 3/09/2014 8:03:15 AM Thank you Wolly B. Now let's wait for the author to apologise for his sexism and culture.....
» 3/09/2014 7:23:07 AM Garbage in, garbage out. Once you've got the starting frame that the sexes are equal and.....
» 2/09/2014 9:10:18 AM So are you going to fund it voluntarily with your own money, or not?.....
» 1/09/2014 4:06:38 PM Rhrosty Good-oh. Will you be funding that with your own money?.....
» 1/09/2014 11:30:26 AM “a problem the US must now respond to.” Why? Hasn’t the US done enough bombing and killi.....
» 1/09/2014 10:58:41 AM Anyone who alleges a dislocation between the supply and demand for anything, without a con.....
» 31/08/2014 8:06:35 AM Ludwig I know they keep saying that, but what they keep doing is the opposite. Why should .....
» 30/08/2014 12:44:48 PM Ludwig, can you understand that the attempt to promote renewables actually uses more natur.....
» 30/08/2014 11:00:05 AM Killarney Can you see that your confusion and self-contradiction are showing? At about 9.....
» 30/08/2014 10:35:17 AM Tony153 Can you see that, even if I conceded all the points you have made - which I don't.....
» 29/08/2014 7:58:08 PM Well said David, you are like a breath of fresh air. Notice how its the socialists who a.....
» 29/08/2014 5:50:31 PM "Are you really advocating we spend even more to produce even less." LOL Haseen.....
» 29/08/2014 12:27:30 PM When you read this article, you've got to remember that dunderheads and socialists count p.....
» 29/08/2014 11:02:10 AM “Taking a broad view, I think it is very unfortunate that the potential of AGW has not bee.....
» 29/08/2014 10:50:30 AM "I’m also agreeing with most socialist and left-wing schools of thought (get on a few.....
» 28/08/2014 9:16:17 PM Killarney The Fed is a creation of the Federal Reserve Act. Yes it privileges private bank.....
» 28/08/2014 7:47:29 PM Tony You answer my prior questions first. If I can show that what you’re saying is fallac.....
» 28/08/2014 7:12:01 PM “J.K.J. Comparing being required to vote, with being caged and raped is so far over the to.....
» 28/08/2014 2:16:03 PM "The only thing forcing up rents is rationed supply; and or, a failure to decentraliz.....
» 28/08/2014 1:05:21 PM Can you see how you’re only proving that the process of political decision-making is in ev.....
» 28/08/2014 1:01:43 PM Yuyutsu Yes indeedy. Rhostry "J.K.J., makes the very same "deregulation".....
» 28/08/2014 11:28:02 AM Not sure who's conflating land and capital here. Land was classically distinguished from.....
» 28/08/2014 11:08:23 AM "Some will say that is just good business, no its not, that is just criminal." .....
» 28/08/2014 11:00:29 AM Wow, an article by Andrew Leigh that doesn't call for violating property rights, recognise.....
» 28/08/2014 9:38:35 AM Government funding of universities should be abolished. You can see why from Killarney's.....
» 26/08/2014 12:07:32 AM All Remember that the warmist line of reasoning is: 1. Anthropogenic global warming =>.....
» 25/08/2014 7:33:07 PM Notice how Poirot's post a) makes no mention of anything relevant to the question whether .....
» 25/08/2014 12:26:26 PM "Why don't we just call their bluff? And just roll out cheaper than coal, carbon free.....
» 25/08/2014 9:24:48 AM Tony, what you need to understand is that it's not just you who's trotting out fallacy aft.....
» 24/08/2014 10:26:52 PM Pseudo-psychologist mind-reading, ho hum. Is that the best you can do? This is the warmi.....
» 24/08/2014 5:01:39 PM Tony More assuming what is in issue, appeal to absent authority, and personal argument fr.....
» 24/08/2014 10:03:45 AM Peter Thanks for that. Yes as soon as we consider costs we are able to enter into a zone o.....
» 23/08/2014 9:57:11 PM Defending an appeal to absent authority with more appeal to absent authority, ho hum. This.....
» 23/08/2014 1:26:41 AM But then they use a double standard. They assume that means are not scarce and need not be.....
» 23/08/2014 1:19:43 AM Don "'true value' is what we wonder could come from an invention that has yet to be d.....
» 22/08/2014 9:43:08 AM This article is a re-statement in other words of the economic calculation problem. Governm.....
» 21/08/2014 8:23:26 PM Killarney, in case you haven't noticed the sexes are not factually equal and cannot be. Ar.....
» 21/08/2014 11:51:08 AM Interesting article. It happened to me once, when I was trying to attract the favours of w.....
» 21/08/2014 11:21:54 AM The author fails to distinguish between consensual and non-consensual activities, which me.....
» 20/08/2014 3:01:49 PM fancynancy So how much of your income have you voluntarily given to the basic income? Th.....
» 20/08/2014 10:53:09 AM “a progressive starts from a sentiment of compassion. “ The author simply ignores the fac.....
» 19/08/2014 12:51:23 PM Peter, you are right. The author should be prosecuted for misleading and deceptive conduct.....
» 18/08/2014 9:43:44 AM "The relationship between the civilian population of Gaza and their governing authori.....
» 6/08/2014 2:07:30 PM Paul If you're not distinguishing between money people have because the government didn't.....
» 6/08/2014 2:00:29 PM "Yet the real goal seems self service, or feathering the personal nest!? " Well.....
» 6/08/2014 1:37:46 PM Willies Your last statement “ the human mitochondrial genome accounts for 0.0005 percent .....
» 6/08/2014 1:24:26 PM "We can limit breeding by giving preference to unbearable women." LOL. Please: .....
» 6/08/2014 1:23:09 PM (Oops! Sorry 'bout that. Anyway.) The more cogent explanations of the evolutionary theori.....
» 6/08/2014 1:18:43 PM Good article. And well said, Yuyutsu. Whenever we do examine the beliefs and reasons of .....
» 6/08/2014 1:09:22 PM Good article. And well said, Yuyutsu. Whenever we do examine the beliefs and reasons of .....
» 4/08/2014 6:00:27 PM Your pretended concern for gender justice would have seemed more plausible if you had a) .....
» 4/08/2014 5:50:33 PM Andee, it is all very well to point out the way beliefs are false, but if you yourself don.....
» 28/07/2014 7:24:23 AM Helga, you're just spouting religious ideology. What you need to understand is, not everyo.....
» 25/07/2014 11:40:22 AM jason84 I didn't say Paula was lying 'simply because I don't agree with her'. I said she’.....
» 24/07/2014 8:47:14 PM It is simply lying to say that gay marriage is not "allowed" or is not "leg.....
» 22/07/2014 2:26:39 PM As she was on morphine and paracetemol, it would have been an easy matter to say "You.....
» 22/07/2014 2:24:21 PM Both Mal's article and Roy's comment above deal with cases where there is hope, but the pr.....
» 21/07/2014 12:30:11 PM More double-talk and self-serving moral gibberish from the parasite class. Noel ignores t.....
» 21/07/2014 12:25:28 PM Bazz, to the extent theories of the GFC are inconsistent, how can you say they're all corr.....
» 20/07/2014 1:50:44 AM Max, as you can see, your article founders on several false assumptions. 1. You can't jus.....
» 17/07/2014 8:08:41 PM Yebiga Can you see, if the total amount of money magically doubled over night, so that ev.....
» 17/07/2014 3:22:07 PM Rhian Do you support marriage equality for polyamorists and if not why not? Don't all the .....
» 17/07/2014 3:17:54 PM incomuircado Perhaps if you were to start by taking the most obvious step - stop using d.....
» 16/07/2014 9:15:39 PM Yebiga If what you are saying was right, it would apply to other economic goods as well a.....
» 16/07/2014 11:36:52 AM Foyle So no private wealth ever increased before governments ran deficits? Printing money.....
» 15/07/2014 10:07:00 AM Any account of the GFC that does not understand or recognise the role of the supply of mon.....
» 15/07/2014 12:23:23 AM Very interesting discussion. I think this is one on which the Liberal Democrats have tot.....
» 9/07/2014 8:01:07 PM Well Allison has certainly got the economic illiterates onside. "Measure the real v.....
» 3/07/2014 7:08:34 PM Killarney You're not public opinion, so how would you know? max, diver, killarney I alwa.....
» 3/07/2014 9:17:40 AM “… the problem is not that politicians disdain public opinion, but that they ignore commun.....
» 2/07/2014 6:23:01 PM Warmists: if you don't care that what you're saying is fallacious, why do you bother discu.....
» 2/07/2014 3:03:46 PM Wanting something to be true does not mean it is true. I see you confuse investment with.....
» 2/07/2014 12:44:05 PM diver dan, yes it is stupid to believe that government is some kind of magical benevolent .....
» 30/06/2014 9:17:10 PM Jay Islam at its strongest was not capable of taking over Europe at its weakest. There i.....
» 30/06/2014 9:57:39 AM Well said Gary. There is no reason why the state of Iraq should be preserved. The US's i.....
» 30/06/2014 9:37:31 AM Bravo David, you are a breath of fresh air. I only wish those desperate for change from th.....
» 26/06/2014 8:18:59 PM Yuyutsu "So what about monasticism?" If all religious in all lands and all age.....
» 25/06/2014 6:08:47 PM Is Mise Yes it's a moot point because although the statute requires an elector "to v.....
» 25/06/2014 9:30:57 AM Is Mise "To vote informally is not a crime, for to do so one only has to "make&.....
» 25/06/2014 12:31:24 AM Interesting you should mention habeus corpus because this is one of a related group of cou.....
» 25/06/2014 12:08:48 AM By common law I mean court-made law. The judges in the higher courts give reasons for thei.....
» 24/06/2014 11:42:51 PM "What can the 'climate acting' nations of the world do to hasten action by China, Ind.....
» 24/06/2014 10:30:32 PM Ho hum, more endless assuming what they haven't proved, appeal to absent authority, appeal.....
» 24/06/2014 8:18:22 AM The hypocrisy of the leftists just defies belief. Just to remind you, you guys are the one.....
» 24/06/2014 7:41:15 AM "When I don't like any candidates, I can go to the voting booth and have my name cros.....
» 24/06/2014 7:00:15 AM LOL yeah. It's ironical that western governments have been invading Iraq at least in par.....
» 23/06/2014 6:19:24 PM "I don't think PNG or Nauru are ready or would accept such a permanent terror problem.....
» 23/06/2014 1:51:36 PM Rhostry LOL. One day you might even be consistently in favour of liberty......
» 23/06/2014 12:04:32 PM Rhosty So the USA is going to "usher in change we can all believe in" in Iraq? .....
» 23/06/2014 11:19:36 AM Also Conrad, has it ever occurred to you that the reason why so many people want to come t.....
» 23/06/2014 10:31:39 AM Comparing the lot of billions and billions of Asian people now, compared with 50 years ago.....
» 23/06/2014 10:18:11 AM Facts good; recommendations bad. The idea that the solution is MORE intervention by the .....
» 23/06/2014 9:56:26 AM When the theory we are using fails to explain what we are observing - especially in very s.....
» 21/06/2014 9:50:55 PM The first principle of constitutional and administrative law is that all power must be aut.....
» 21/06/2014 9:48:50 PM "Ok, but all this means that Australia will abide by the "Conventions & Protocol.....
» 21/06/2014 12:36:50 PM sayeed You look as though you have never read any of the history of Islam. In case you ha.....
» 21/06/2014 10:34:57 AM Marxism is not "an elegant philosophy". It's not that it's good in theory. It'.....
» 21/06/2014 10:04:37 AM I admire your persistence Jayb. The phrase "(2) The Minister is satisfied that the a.....
» 20/06/2014 8:14:41 PM Oooooh, allllllllright, I'll show you. But before I do, just think. If you were right tha.....
» 20/06/2014 3:54:10 PM “And yes there is predation in a community, not just voluntary interactions and deals betw.....
» 20/06/2014 3:53:08 PM Lester1 “Of course nations protect citizens from predation. Nations are a collective of p.....
» 20/06/2014 3:04:43 PM "I have combed the ACT through & through& the way it is written doesn't make it Law.&.....
» 20/06/2014 2:48:20 PM "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun." Is.....
» 20/06/2014 10:56:26 AM Jayb "It [the Migration Act] mentions it [the Convention refugee definition] once in .....
» 19/06/2014 12:21:52 PM Pollie, Ludwig You do understand that you're arguing that socialisation of the means of p.....
» 19/06/2014 12:15:51 PM Emperor Julian Australia has not just signed the UN Refugees Convention, but has incorpo.....
» 19/06/2014 11:00:52 AM Rhostry You're contradicting yourself over and over. If it's wrong for government to giv.....
» 19/06/2014 10:40:05 AM The article assumes that rights, or human rights, are whatever the state says they are. .....
» 19/06/2014 10:27:39 AM Emperor Julian "A nation develops a state to protect its citizens from predation.&qu.....
» 19/06/2014 10:11:03 AM Malcolm, can you see from your premise - the perverse inability of political organisations.....
» 18/06/2014 9:24:35 AM Yes watching it I could only wonder, how come the left wing are so full of hatred and bitt.....
» 18/06/2014 9:00:05 AM "Would any Australian seriously contest the closure of offshore detention centres if .....
» 18/06/2014 8:52:08 AM Government has no rational way of distinguishing "good research", even in its ow.....
» 17/06/2014 10:59:11 AM The incipient state of ISIS tells us a lot about the nature of the State in general. The.....
» 12/06/2014 10:29:32 AM Gadfly You're not making any distinction between your personal sexual opinions, and wheth.....
» 10/06/2014 10:39:24 AM The problem is easily solved. Stop defining ordinary consensual human behaviour as abusive.....
» 26/05/2014 12:39:21 PM There is no such thing as a right not to be offended, but if there is, then the author nee.....
» 22/05/2014 4:34:46 PM Tell that to Wendy; she and her allies in intolerant bigotry are trying to use that the fi.....
» 21/05/2014 11:45:39 PM Wendy, by deliberately confounding consensual sex with rape, employment with slavery, work.....
» 21/05/2014 10:30:43 AM Christians often say that non-married sex as a “distortion” of sexuality, which they defin.....
» 21/05/2014 10:30:21 AM Same with the expression “trafficked”, which suggests images of people being packed in shi.....
» 21/05/2014 10:25:31 AM If people consent to have sex that is nobody’s business but their own; and whether or not .....
» 17/05/2014 10:15:13 PM LOL. Don't worry, James O'Neill will turn up in another thread re-insisting that the gov.....
» 16/05/2014 9:54:06 AM I recently drove through the bushfire devastated state forests of northern Victoria. The.....
» 15/05/2014 6:51:56 PM (cont.) CJ: Yes. James: “You can find the relevant provisions and discussion thereon in a.....
» 15/05/2014 6:49:33 PM Bruce I don't need to prove anything to you. I have since 1993 argued more refugee cases .....
» 14/05/2014 8:23:08 PM James The fact that I keep proving you 100% wrong, and that you keep dishonestly insistin.....
» 14/05/2014 3:25:16 PM James " @JKJ You have posed the same question as to the legal basis for Bruce's argum.....
» 14/05/2014 9:57:35 AM Ponder LOL. That's thinking outside the square. Bruce You repeatedly say that Australi.....
» 23/04/2014 11:20:55 PM Look CO2 emissions have gone up and up and up, while global average temperatures have rema.....
» 9/03/2014 7:38:36 PM So how do you know the increase in price wouldn't cause even worse worker conditions somew.....
» 9/03/2014 7:36:17 PM Your belief system is just a re-run of the age-old hoo-haa about original sin, a superbein.....
» 9/03/2014 7:29:59 PM Luciferase With a rational belief system a) you first show how it can be falsified, and b.....
» 8/03/2014 9:41:57 PM Plus you’re not taking into account the cost in terms of human lives. There’s just a big b.....
» 8/03/2014 9:39:54 PM Luciferase You have not made a case to answer. Mere temperature variation, of itself, does.....
» 8/03/2014 5:22:58 PM Why not 100%?.....
» 8/03/2014 11:21:32 AM Poirot "Where is your argument specifically on"data" and scientific conclu.....
» 8/03/2014 11:06:03 AM “Jardine it appears you are the optimist, where as I see the options available to us as al.....
» 8/03/2014 11:05:19 AM “Oligopoly” is just another marxoid bogeyman, as is “monopolisation”. Obviously if you can.....
» 8/03/2014 11:02:48 AM “Your looking for the enemy of libertarianism in the wrong place.” No I’m not. Anyone adv.....
» 8/03/2014 11:02:13 AM Yebiga, Chris, Squeers The problem is that while you think you stand for enlightenment and.....
» 8/03/2014 8:50:47 AM Chris Unlike you, I understand that the socialists are talking about killing large number.....
» 8/03/2014 7:52:18 AM Luciferase You said: “My first act as dictator would be to round up all the deniers and .....
» 7/03/2014 7:24:09 PM Luciferase "Firstly you insist on a policy then, when I tell you I have one (tho' no.....
» 7/03/2014 9:48:04 AM How about you answer the SPECIFIC points I have repeatedly explained and justified? 1. Yo.....
» 7/03/2014 8:48:44 AM "How our political leaders respond to this challenge of downward mobility will define.....
» 7/03/2014 8:35:53 AM "To inflict suffering on one group of people in order to deter others is a clear case.....
» 7/03/2014 12:16:37 AM But human freedom remains morally and pragmatically superior to coercive central planning .....
» 6/03/2014 11:19:07 PM The intelligentsia function to promote economic ignorance, such as Squeers latest offering.....
» 6/03/2014 11:17:33 PM Being a legal monopoly of aggression and fraud, the State offers the ability to live at ot.....
» 6/03/2014 11:16:36 PM Yebiga “What if anything do you value?” I value people’s freedom to live their life as th.....
» 6/03/2014 11:09:25 PM "I have a policy on how to avoid future problems by attacking their source," A .....
» 6/03/2014 6:38:50 PM Tristan Are you honestly telling us you can't see the self-contradictions in what you're .....
» 6/03/2014 5:51:23 PM Luciferase Is that your idea of proving the rational basis for policy action? (Your dream.....
» 6/03/2014 6:00:08 AM Squeers, Tristan, Yebiga, anyone else Would you please set out clearly what parts of Marx.....
» 6/03/2014 12:01:29 AM All You see, what Squeers and Chris and other academics have learnt, is that you can get p.....
» 5/03/2014 11:18:03 PM Squeers "the fact that you cleave so obstinately to free market logic as humanity's s.....
» 5/03/2014 10:55:01 PM Therefore mere social democratic reforms won't answer, which is why Marx despised them. Th.....
» 5/03/2014 10:30:11 PM Tristan You’re only showing that you don’t understand Marxist theory. We’re agreed that.....
» 5/03/2014 8:31:09 AM "Why are we still struggling with gender equality?" Because it's not true? Bec.....
» 5/03/2014 8:19:06 AM Luciferase "JKJ, from someone employing proof by bold assertion as oft as you, your .....
» 5/03/2014 6:39:44 AM "For however wrong headed Marxism may be, it is a far more honest ideal than the one .....
» 5/03/2014 6:36:43 AM Yebiga honey "The trouble with that diatribe is that your mixing Marx with postmoder.....
» 4/03/2014 11:34:48 PM We are amazed at Squeers devastating riposte: an open embrace of the "there's no such.....
» 4/03/2014 11:19:58 PM cohenite Thanks. Tristan All the points you make assume that Marx was right, whereas it's.....
» 4/03/2014 10:35:30 PM Squeers "Marx's prognoses on capitalism continue to prove correct..." That's b.....
» 4/03/2014 9:43:50 PM Tombee, blind unquestioning faith in authority is not "science". Science *never*.....
» 4/03/2014 6:26:30 AM What obviously happened here is that Stewart thought it was enough to say the magic word &.....
» 4/03/2014 5:24:32 AM According to the labour theory of value, if we spend $10 billion on labour for a gold mine.....
» 4/03/2014 4:59:02 AM old zygote It is mere stupidity to argue that someone doubling their income shows an incr.....
» 3/03/2014 12:31:58 PM "however erroneous, he considers Marx to have made a unique and important Contributio.....
» 3/03/2014 11:54:18 AM Stewart So is that your defence of your unspoken assumption - just thought you'd sneak it.....
» 3/03/2014 10:01:48 AM Good idea, except for the crapola about carbon which is 100% fraudulent. "This could.....
» 3/03/2014 9:38:43 AM "could I support an event funded by profits of mandatory detention...? My answer: emp.....
» 3/03/2014 9:17:14 AM As soon as you pinkos resile from a conclusion in favour of full socialism, as soon as you.....
» 3/03/2014 9:13:26 AM Chris “When I tutored at unis, I always made it a point to begin the term by sharing my v.....
» 3/03/2014 9:11:10 AM You couldn’t want a better display of why government funding of the humanities should be a.....
» 27/02/2014 9:19:26 PM Chris, slimy evasion way too transparent, I'm afraid. Got that proof of the labour theory.....
» 27/02/2014 9:26:03 AM Tristan "So Marxism, critical theory, radical (let's say Rawlsian) social liberalism .....
» 26/02/2014 7:57:54 PM You don’t like being called stupid, but honestly, read what you’re writing! “The solutio.....
» 26/02/2014 7:53:27 PM More circularity. You haven’t demonstrated that the difference is *because of* or *despite.....
» 26/02/2014 7:49:43 PM Christopher Warren Do you understand that, if you are so confused that you use the term “.....
» 26/02/2014 2:38:43 AM It's Shayn, Yebiga, and Tristan who don't understand Marxism. You are either displaying st.....
» 24/02/2014 2:25:14 PM "One has only to point to the illegal invasion of Iraq and the untold death and miser.....
» 24/02/2014 11:09:20 AM “Fascism is for liberty. And for the only liberty which can be real thin, the liberty of t.....
» 24/02/2014 11:04:34 AM “There have been totalitarian capitalist countries like NAZI germany and Mussolinis Italy......
» 24/02/2014 10:34:40 AM I challenge anyone who wishes to defend this article, on the following grounds. 1. Are yo.....
» 23/02/2014 11:27:20 PM "In other words, the passion and energy common with private ownership becomes more bu.....
» 23/02/2014 9:38:48 PM And you’re not offering to pay the costs of the values you profess, are you? You want othe.....
» 23/02/2014 9:38:40 PM ... states have any presumptive competence, let alone superiority, when it comes to human .....
» 23/02/2014 9:28:40 PM Jayb Okay. Bet your house then? Keep looking, QC. JO'N I agree neither Labor nor Liber.....
» 23/02/2014 1:48:32 PM For example, what makes you think that the interventions in industry that you are in favou.....
» 23/02/2014 8:45:39 AM "And it is just this where the hard work begins. How big should government be? What i.....
» 23/02/2014 8:27:56 AM Look you won't have any difficulty persuading me that the whole system is crazy. I'm not d.....
» 22/02/2014 7:50:32 PM "While this merits review is not bound by Australian law and is of a non-statutory na.....
» 22/02/2014 4:55:32 PM LOL, keep going. Just think, though. If you're right, why are the federal courts, includi.....
» 22/02/2014 1:08:30 PM "The role of government is to enable anyone to open a business and contribute to weal.....
» 22/02/2014 12:57:17 PM Yebiga Has it ever occurred to you that if your starting assumptions are wrong, your conc.....
» 22/02/2014 12:36:51 PM Come on Jayb, it's got to be enough to hurt for your impudence. Since, according to you, .....
» 21/02/2014 5:28:38 PM How much do you bet before I show you?.....
» 21/02/2014 3:41:46 PM 1. How much do you bet? I've already quoted above the exact quote from where it's part o.....
» 21/02/2014 11:03:05 AM All Why is it not a solution to your concerns for Australia to withdraw from the Conventio.....
» 20/02/2014 9:37:57 PM J.O'n. You didn't try to discuss the issue in terms of international law. You gave your .....
» 20/02/2014 6:56:02 AM Yebiga You don't define 'economic rationalist' bit I presume you mean free market. Yes? No.....
» 20/02/2014 6:26:53 AM "Burma is a nation, not a market." Notice how the socialists of North Korea, My.....
» 19/02/2014 10:12:24 PM "But they won't there-in lies your problem. Most Australians don't want them here & o.....
» 19/02/2014 10:01:40 PM Is that the best you can do? So basically it's just an open-ended plea for handouts. You .....
» 19/02/2014 9:52:59 PM Burma is the name visited on Myanmar by the British. The biggest ethnic group when they ar.....
» 18/02/2014 9:18:53 PM By the way, a proposition isn't self-evident just because you happen to think it's a good .....
» 18/02/2014 9:05:38 PM I think this policy area is the "unstoppable force meeting the immoveable object".....
» 18/02/2014 8:57:53 PM "Do you believe that anyone coming to Australia by any means & claiming Asylum should.....
» 18/02/2014 7:48:25 PM “So the first step, Should be to define the real economy of goods and services which are e.....
» 18/02/2014 3:07:35 PM Notice how at no stage have any of the supporters of the ABC given any reason why they sho.....
» 18/02/2014 3:03:56 PM So in other words you have no specific proposal, and no new paradigm, but just an open-end.....
» 18/02/2014 12:48:33 PM Yebiga You are only spouting ideology......
» 18/02/2014 9:10:42 AM The ABC is a disgrace, a boom-box of totalitarian prejudice, and a liability to a free soc.....
» 18/02/2014 9:09:47 AM Notice how the author provides no reason whatsoever for government running a broadcasting .....
» 17/02/2014 10:49:36 PM Honey Notice how you didn't say what new paradigm or specific action you propose? Notice .....
» 17/02/2014 12:12:13 PM Matthew S The problem is precisely that you have not defined, and cannot define, this non-.....
» 17/02/2014 9:40:22 AM “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by put.....
» 16/02/2014 11:34:11 PM What specifically are you proposing? You still haven't established that your theory satis.....
» 16/02/2014 6:40:07 PM We laugh at the complete stupidity of the Soviets who used to have "jobs" for pe.....
» 16/02/2014 12:52:15 PM Ho hum, repeated passionate ad hom, question begging, collectivist fallacy of Yebiga’s ass.....
» 15/02/2014 10:51:18 AM For example obviously if you cannot identify any rational criterion by which you distingui.....
» 15/02/2014 9:13:10 AM “Would this make it less pedantic. “It seems like MOST of Tamils Tigers would qualify for .....
» 14/02/2014 11:31:29 PM James That is abundantly clear from the Convention …” No it’s not. I’ve asked you to cit.....
» 14/02/2014 10:58:32 PM Yebiga You're contradicting yourself over and over both in word and action......
» 14/02/2014 4:20:42 PM James, are you saying that non-citizens without a visa have a "right" in interna.....
» 14/02/2014 2:41:20 AM Jayb, I can't understand what you are saying I am wrong about. Can you boil it down into s.....
» 14/02/2014 2:34:35 AM Go ahead: try answering and see if *you* can come up with a rational argument, because I a.....
» 14/02/2014 2:33:31 AM Yebiga " I am however ready for you to prove me wrong." Well that's very good o.....
» 13/02/2014 7:09:00 PM "The reasoning is scatter brained: on the one hand, globalisation is good yet terribl.....
» 13/02/2014 7:01:20 PM YEBIGA How do you distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate governmental activity? .....
» 13/02/2014 6:50:22 PM Peter, this should have been filed under "anti-economics". It's easy to demolis.....
» 13/02/2014 6:25:00 PM 1. Refugees are entitled to non-refoulement under the Convention. Whether they also aspire.....
» 13/02/2014 6:21:32 PM Jayb: “If you're a Barrister you can't be a very good one if you can't interpret Law prop.....
» 12/02/2014 3:34:41 PM Jayb I know what's in the Convention, I have argued cases all the way from the Department .....
» 12/02/2014 8:24:36 AM Under the Convention, as interpreted by Australian courts, the definition of a refugee can.....
» 12/02/2014 8:20:50 AM SM They're not largely judges and the two I knew personally didn't have a law degree. The.....
» 11/02/2014 2:59:51 PM James O'N: while I am sympathetic to your argument, I don't think you're right as to point.....
» 11/02/2014 8:49:30 AM Also Graeme, if these are "human rights", then either you're discriminating agai.....
» 10/02/2014 6:38:24 PM "The anti ABC brigade are saying, that the ABC should only broadcast right wing propa.....
» 10/02/2014 5:03:10 PM What about my freedom not to be forced to pay for your speech? Freedom of speech has noth.....
» 10/02/2014 1:41:00 PM "Jardine is entitled to his ideological position that “There is no justification for .....
» 10/02/2014 11:36:31 AM There is no such thing as a human right to equal outcomes, and there is no such thing as a.....
» 10/02/2014 10:10:48 AM The similarity with totalitarian dicators is all Binoy Kampmark's own, in thinking that it.....
» 6/02/2014 12:59:04 PM Tristan What objections do you have to complete government control and direction of all pr.....
» 5/02/2014 8:50:47 PM Boomer IF there were no such thing as reality, or logic, or truth, *then* it would come do.....
» 5/02/2014 6:11:21 PM Tristan What objections do you have to complete government control and direction of all pr.....
» 5/02/2014 6:05:03 PM Jardine: If you read it back, it really was quite a display of infantile narcissistic rage.....
» 5/02/2014 6:03:28 PM Jardine: Why don’t you employ every single one of the older workers who, according to you,.....
» 5/02/2014 6:01:09 PM Malcolm Wow. We are amazed at the cogency of your arguments. Since you obviously don’t kn.....
» 3/02/2014 8:47:33 PM It can be proved in more general terms. For example, if your basal assumption were true, t.....
» 3/02/2014 8:44:55 PM (This is (one reason) why Aristotle was such a genius. He was able to distil out of the st.....
» 3/02/2014 8:43:41 PM Andras “Most would agree it should be about access for all who are competent, …” The ques.....
» 31/01/2014 12:16:50 PM Whichever way you look at it, and whether provision is made by private or public means, th.....
» 31/01/2014 9:00:28 AM The very fact that Alan Austin thinks that society is made richer by printing money, burni.....
» 31/01/2014 8:40:23 AM Good article and yes the ABC's constant and blatant bias and left-of-left wing propaganda .....
» 30/01/2014 9:56:09 PM Secondly, there is also no way for you to know what age discrimination is justified in ter.....
» 30/01/2014 9:54:23 PM Killarney And more government is the solution is it? BTW who’s “we”? Malcolcm So if I d.....
» 30/01/2014 8:18:20 AM Malcolm King has never given any reason why older workers should not be discriminated agai.....
» 28/01/2014 9:18:20 AM "Rafe Champion brings the grafting qualities of the opening batsman and the cunning o.....
» 26/01/2014 10:40:08 PM "If we work hard to change these attitudes, we will reap economic dividends." T.....
» 24/01/2014 11:58:02 PM “And they should be reassured that no child is a little Anglican, Catholic, Muslim or anyt.....
» 24/01/2014 11:54:36 PM “As you say, religion has been such a powerful force in the history of our species that it.....
» 24/01/2014 11:48:44 PM GlenC If you and Foyle had been trying to present a caricature of the intellectual methodo.....
» 21/01/2014 1:11:36 PM Just as religious indoctrinators have a program for systematic conversion to their creed, .....
» 21/01/2014 1:04:30 PM Why do they keep teaching these beliefs if they’re wrong? Because just as with religion, t.....
» 21/01/2014 1:01:47 PM Putting aside whether we call something teaching/indoctrination, and whether it’s done by .....
» 21/01/2014 12:55:34 PM GlenC LOL. Okay, imagine you are travelling in a strange land where they believe that th.....
» 20/01/2014 12:39:00 AM I don’t think it’s true that the ordinary punter has, in practice, any determining or infl.....
» 19/01/2014 10:00:47 PM “In any political system … the aim must be that all citizens should stand as equals before.....
» 19/01/2014 11:37:03 AM In modern times, I believe the predominant form of this religiosity revolves around belief.....
» 19/01/2014 11:31:28 AM Foyle Not sure what you’re getting at there. Why is it an axiom to say that all men are c.....
» 18/01/2014 7:15:47 PM Foyle, my question is how you distinguish state from church indoctrination of children, an.....
» 18/01/2014 10:38:41 AM Foyle How do you know whether it's an unfalsifiable belief system?.....
» 18/01/2014 4:38:26 AM GlenC But it's alright to do all those things in the name of the State?.....
» 17/01/2014 3:13:01 PM The great flaw in the article is the usual statist trick/error of identifying society with.....
» 1/01/2014 11:59:21 PM So a shipload of global warming scientists gets stuck in ice 70 km from where Mawson made .....
» 1/01/2014 9:16:02 PM plantagenet Is that the best you can do?.....
» 1/01/2014 4:49:02 PM "I thing monogamous marriage (over 18) of any gender and sexuality is OK. Any objecti.....
» 1/01/2014 2:52:40 AM Plantagenet "Marriage is an intrinsically dangerous and expensive occupation which sh.....
» 1/01/2014 2:49:40 AM Notice how at no stage in his article does the author say a) what "marriage equality.....
» 29/12/2013 8:16:06 AM fancynancy, The Future, Andrew If minimum wage laws don’t cause unemployment, why not mak.....
» 29/12/2013 8:06:55 AM There is no such thing as a "right" to ordination, any more than there is a &quo.....
» 24/12/2013 8:15:10 AM "It should not be the taxpayers' responsibility to fund incompetent management or non.....
» 19/12/2013 6:03:46 PM Shann Would your proposed scheme be voluntary, in the sense that investors could elect no.....
» 19/12/2013 11:21:34 AM As the global warming fraud has now made clear, there is just as much need for a separatio.....
» 18/12/2013 10:05:01 PM Shann, I'm sorry if I have misrepresented your argument. But have I? Why is it not tru.....
» 18/12/2013 6:26:56 PM Andrew, just because you reason by starting at the conclusion you want and working backwar.....
» 17/12/2013 4:12:52 PM “[A]ccounting doctrines do not identify when the investment has been paid back”. Why not,.....
» 17/12/2013 4:08:31 PM Shann, thanks for that. How can you say your proposal is based on market forces when the.....
» 17/12/2013 7:58:34 AM Looks like a U.S. Court has vindicated Edward Snowden, ruling unconstitutional the Nationa.....
» 16/12/2013 2:25:09 PM Wow. Can’t believe I just agreed with every word that Grim just said. Go Grim! We’ll make .....
» 16/12/2013 12:53:12 PM And notice how, as to the output side of the equation, the original problem is conceived t.....
» 16/12/2013 12:48:41 PM The fallacies of the argument are numerous. Shann assumes the liabilities of foreign inves.....
» 16/12/2013 12:45:23 PM The premise of the article is that foreign investment creates open-ended “unlimited, unkno.....
» 16/12/2013 12:41:17 PM So in other words, why doesn’t the government tax foreign investors less now, in exchange .....
» 13/12/2013 6:18:09 PM If minimum wage laws don’t cause unemployment, why not make the minimum wage $100 per hour.....
» 13/12/2013 2:57:17 AM • You use double standards, for example justifying interventions for “collusion” and “mono.....
» 13/12/2013 2:51:02 AM • The one thing you are agreed on is that government should have control of the means of p.....
» 13/12/2013 2:46:25 AM Okay, let’s just recap what we’ve established so far about the original article and the an.....
» 12/12/2013 7:44:02 PM Foyle Can you see that it’s just garble-brained to reason like this: “Government does ce.....
» 11/12/2013 6:02:58 PM Geoff Imagine a physics professor told you he’d demonstrated the theoretical possibility o.....
» 11/12/2013 11:11:03 AM Notice how Foyle, Geoff and Daffy do not advocate any particular governmental action? All .....
» 11/12/2013 8:11:49 AM Ironical that a leftist's critical thinking should have finally led him to understand the .....
» 11/12/2013 7:37:44 AM … of the evaluations of all seven billion people in the world, through their *voluntary* a.....
» 11/12/2013 7:37:00 AM Geoff makes valid points about the absurdity of neo-classical assumptions about “equilibri.....
» 9/12/2013 7:10:02 PM "Government-imposed discrimination against black South Africans was instigated by whi.....
» 9/12/2013 7:45:30 AM The usual confused academic drivel surveying a terrain of thorough-going statist intervent.....
» 7/12/2013 10:26:02 PM The sheer stupidity or dishonesty of discussion of SS marriage is all there is to it. It.....
» 6/12/2013 7:25:12 PM Warmair If you are right, then obviously there's no need for any policy on the matter. Ha.....
» 6/12/2013 7:22:21 PM I don't think it's fair to the accused to have an inquisitorial system. Imagine being accu.....
» 6/12/2013 3:33:30 AM "My argument is that no one,especially govt, is advocating a mitigation study. How c.....
» 6/12/2013 3:30:18 AM Notice how none of the supporters of the ABC have given any reason why anyone else should .....
» 5/12/2013 8:04:31 PM It’s you who are proposing that the most powerful and aggressive people in society should .....
» 5/12/2013 8:03:33 PM The economic question with protection, as with any other economic good, is whether the amo.....
» 5/12/2013 8:01:51 PM ““Illegal” Jardine? “ Yes. Robbery – aggressive force or threats to take someone’s proper.....
» 5/12/2013 10:24:38 AM Bazz "I am surprised that with a bit of thought that you have not realised that all t.....
» 5/12/2013 9:54:48 AM Notice how cobber doesn't give any *reason* why people should be forced to fund the ABC, a.....
» 5/12/2013 8:52:53 AM What makes it keep getting expensive, is that the state monopoly courts won't let the deci.....
» 5/12/2013 8:52:30 AM Having acted for clients in both adversarial and inquisitorial systems, I think there's no.....
» 5/12/2013 8:25:11 AM The situation with the ABC is nothing short of outrageous. They don't even make any attemp.....
» 4/12/2013 8:37:40 PM I've got a better idea. Why don't we just abolish the need to work, since it's all just &q.....
» 4/12/2013 6:43:08 PM Campaigner What you obviously haven’t understood is that the issue *all along* has been w.....
» 4/12/2013 5:59:37 PM Bazz The fact that infinite growth on a finite base is impossible, may sound compelling at.....
» 3/12/2013 9:17:55 PM Hmm. Lots of ad hom, appeal to absent authority, non sequitur, misrepresentation, and circ.....
» 3/12/2013 7:47:57 PM Foyle Imagine if I said “The invisible pink unicorn cured Fred’s disease”, and you said “.....
» 3/12/2013 10:31:56 AM Candide, who or what is Indi?.....
» 3/12/2013 10:15:50 AM Foyle “As for pointing to experts in a particular field who do you rely on for your healt.....
» 3/12/2013 6:11:41 AM Foyle Obviously if you have no way of knowing whether government is providing too little, .....
» 2/12/2013 10:22:28 AM Foyle You are ignoring the fact that I have totally demolished your economic theory many t.....
» 2/12/2013 9:30:25 AM Note to Foyle: Keynesianism is a throw-back to dark ages economic theory. The ideas that.....
» 2/12/2013 8:52:07 AM Probably everyone agrees with the thrust of this article, that there is growing distrust o.....
» 2/12/2013 8:02:22 AM Good article. On the one hand governments hold themselves out as the saviour of the econ.....
» 2/12/2013 2:15:18 AM The original economic problem, giving rise to all economic activity and all economic theor.....
» 2/12/2013 2:02:17 AM Campaigner We all agree that farm profitability is adversely affected by environmental imp.....
» 1/12/2013 8:10:02 AM So you don't care that it's untrue, you don't care that it's unethical, you don't care tha.....
» 1/12/2013 7:30:44 AM How can you claim to be more realistic when you can't bring yourself to propose any actual.....
» 30/11/2013 6:20:14 PM Nev, we’ve already seen you can’t identify the standard by which you allege market “distor.....
» 30/11/2013 6:06:53 PM “the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when the.....
» 30/11/2013 7:33:18 AM bartb What specifically are you proposing? "I have said that what is needed is whate.....
» 29/11/2013 9:20:16 PM Nev Thanks for that. Note that: 1. “There is no specific “law” that Say pronounces in hi.....
» 29/11/2013 8:54:27 AM ... him at every turn. It’s enough to make him non-viable, and remove the only mechanic fo.....
» 29/11/2013 8:48:52 AM Bartb You keep confusing problems caused by government with problems caused by the market......
» 29/11/2013 3:18:21 AM Good article. You know things are getting bad in the West when the Chinese communist par.....
» 28/11/2013 7:27:47 PM … a given rate, preferring instead the value of leisure. So, according to your theory, the.....
» 28/11/2013 7:24:00 PM Notice how no-one has ventured to answer any of the 4 questions I asked? That’s because th.....
» 28/11/2013 8:21:23 AM The “governmental” reasons for a non-level-playing field are all the various subsidies and.....
» 28/11/2013 8:21:00 AM The irony is that it’s you guys who seem to be basing your criticisms of free markets on f.....
» 27/11/2013 4:27:56 PM It is sufficient to dispose all your arguments to note that you cannot answer the followin.....
» 27/11/2013 1:27:59 PM The economics of what we are discussing couldn’t be explained clearer or briefer than in t.....
» 27/11/2013 8:02:20 AM It is ironical that someone should be calling for Australia to promote the de-communalisat.....
» 26/11/2013 9:13:47 PM The Labor party’s destruction of the industry of live cattle exports, and with it much of .....
» 26/11/2013 9:09:16 PM Nev Empirical data don’t interpret themselves. That requires theory. And if the theory con.....
» 26/11/2013 3:27:35 PM Kali Your argument walks bang into the same obvious fatal objections as that of other ref.....
» 26/11/2013 11:57:20 AM Sparkyq "What has become increasingly obvious is that that vast majority of those arr.....
» 26/11/2013 8:22:55 AM My hope for all Australians including Aborigines and "indigenous policy-makers" .....
» 26/11/2013 8:12:45 AM Foyle Your own economic theory has been completely demolished by the fact that you are un.....
» 26/11/2013 7:37:18 AM James what is the difference between your view of the role of government, and fascists vie.....
» 26/11/2013 7:33:44 AM So the new progressive party should directly empower people and revolutionise traditional .....
» 25/11/2013 9:57:31 PM You provide no *reason* for alleging that I have ignored or distorted anything you've said.....
» 25/11/2013 9:03:44 PM That illogical assumption in Ben's methodology invalidates his entire argument. Complete r.....
» 25/11/2013 8:56:53 PM The author has obviously failed to understand, or even to read, the Austrian school’s crit.....
» 25/11/2013 8:01:05 PM It's always hard with leftists to know whether they are displaying blatant dishonesty or d.....
» 25/11/2013 11:42:02 AM Shockadelic, if you are under the impression that you support liberal democracy, what do y.....
» 25/11/2013 9:54:02 AM Very good article. "Not to put too fine a point on it, our prime strategic partner w.....
» 24/11/2013 11:52:35 PM "I've already stated (extensively) the pragmatic reasons why a domestic bias would be.....
» 24/11/2013 4:56:15 PM Lego I agree with you that anyone calling for government funding of refugees is displaying.....
» 24/11/2013 9:30:01 AM The Governor-General has declared support for an Australia where "people are free to .....
» 24/11/2013 7:00:31 AM Why would it be ideal, or even better, to phase out all trade? Just imagine for a sec that.....
» 23/11/2013 7:43:13 AM James, I know that your economic illiteracy prevents you from understanding why, but I alw.....
» 22/11/2013 11:19:38 PM >>"Why would you want to phase out trade?" >Have a look at the economi.....
» 22/11/2013 2:14:29 PM "The mythical R2P beast, with the head of a howler monkey and the legs of a newborn g.....
» 22/11/2013 2:11:08 PM “There's no universal "society".” Why not? What is society but human co-operati.....
» 22/11/2013 8:06:32 AM “Kerry Murphy is an immigration lawyer touting for business.” LOL Kerry, you walked right.....
» 21/11/2013 8:58:05 AM You are right, Kerry. Another excellent argument for Australia withdrawing from the Refug.....
» 21/11/2013 7:07:31 AM Shockadelic "Societies and their economies only really exist locally/domestically/n.....
» 20/11/2013 12:13:42 PM "The author seems to be hankering for his own version of nirvana." No reason i.....
» 20/11/2013 9:49:36 AM "To people who support the Greens. Become more alert to the “downstream” effects of G.....
» 11/11/2013 1:42:10 PM Cossomby I have not alleged you have any view on the science or politics of AGW, and there.....
» 11/11/2013 12:56:40 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 11/11/2013 10:13:24 AM Cossomby "I am one of those with some scientific knowledge..." Then you will kn.....
» 11/11/2013 9:53:09 AM The very fact that the debate is characterised by "abuse and vilification" shows.....
» 11/11/2013 9:15:35 AM stevenlmeyer "We need to take the ideology, especially the Greens ideology, out of th.....
» 11/11/2013 9:03:39 AM I'm betting the government will not need a double dissolution in order to repeal the carbo.....
» 11/11/2013 8:53:10 AM "it would be a jolly good thing if the govt would be up front with Australians instea.....
» 11/11/2013 8:33:11 AM The sheer hypocrisy and double standards of this article are appalling. As usual the lef.....
» 9/11/2013 2:11:02 PM Poirot Stop trying to squirm out of it. At what stage, short of actually shooting people.....
» 9/11/2013 8:11:53 AM Poirot [Deleted for abuse.] I have not lauded "righties". I have only pointed ou.....
» 7/11/2013 7:44:11 PM More half-witted self-contradiction and open-ended self-entitlement from the left wing. m.....
» 7/11/2013 11:37:17 AM mikk It's about the use of force and threats. Rich people, by being rich, aren't using for.....
» 7/11/2013 11:36:31 AM mikk It's about the use of force and threats. Rich people, by being rich, aren't using for.....
» 7/11/2013 8:00:08 AM The sheer unabashed irrationality and hypocrisy of the left wing really is their main char.....
» 7/11/2013 7:33:58 AM Therefore the ethics of using violence and threats are always and necessarily implicated i.....
» 7/11/2013 7:26:53 AM Of course there is ambiguity and overlap in "left" and "right" which m.....
» 6/11/2013 10:35:25 AM “You could argue that fascism was the ultimate expression of corporatism“ You could argue.....
» 6/11/2013 8:08:17 AM Great article. More. Yes we are facing an epidemic of religious hysteria. The carbon tax.....
» 6/11/2013 7:55:38 AM Good well-written article. Yes the left/right dichotomy generates more heat than light, .....
» 5/11/2013 11:52:24 AM Cobber Hound, can you explain to me why you shouldn't be forced to pay for it? It's your o.....
» 5/11/2013 8:10:51 AM The ethical and pragmatic way to solve this problem is to pass an Act forcing Animals Aust.....
» 4/11/2013 2:51:50 PM "There is no such thing as an ideology free educational curriculum. Anyone who preten.....
» 31/10/2013 2:35:37 PM Can someone please tell me why the government should be registering people's private sexua.....
» 28/10/2013 8:05:50 PM Well everything is a thing "of the world", so according to your theory, everythi.....
» 27/10/2013 8:46:18 AM "OK let’s say the UN is corrupted. But same would occur with any new world authority......
» 25/10/2013 9:57:19 PM Jon J "Add in ridiculous working conditions..." What are the ridiculous working.....
» 25/10/2013 9:51:15 PM JF Aus We agree on pretty much your whole take on it except the idea that the UN - of all .....
» 25/10/2013 4:50:54 PM JF Aus You are displaying the complete misunderstanding which can be the only basis for su.....
» 25/10/2013 7:11:10 AM Seventhly, notice how the statists never mention the aggressive violence that is the basis.....
» 25/10/2013 7:04:33 AM The UN is a criminal organisation and the sooner it dies the better. Australia should with.....
» 24/10/2013 4:41:07 PM Saltpetre "Can governments, states and nations act 'morally' (including ethically, ju.....
» 24/10/2013 1:47:25 PM I certainly agree in marriage equality for polygamists. I hope the ACT law doesn't discrim.....
» 24/10/2013 8:12:17 AM James, I have shown why relations between sovereign and subject, or citizen and state, hav.....
» 23/10/2013 10:09:41 AM The problem with this article is that it’s just a collected series of false and confused s.....
» 22/10/2013 6:36:25 AM The idea that adverse weather or other natural events are caused by man's sin is the oldes.....
» 21/10/2013 11:21:43 AM More tedious liturgy and double standards from the church of climatology......
» 21/10/2013 7:40:05 AM Matt “…we are by and large trying to elevate the status of women from entrenched patriarch.....
» 20/10/2013 8:08:26 AM Dan “Can give me some examples where non-religion was the inspiration for the widespread .....
» 18/10/2013 8:59:27 PM "George, the issue here is that it's precisely because the warnings on overpopulation.....
» 18/10/2013 8:56:51 PM Thanks Ludwig. Matt "Christianity as with most religions was born with violence and .....
» 18/10/2013 11:30:07 AM “Just click on ALL, Tony.” O-oh. *Now* I get it. I can’t see why everyone is chucking o.....
» 18/10/2013 11:05:57 AM This would seemingly be one of those pieces of great profundity which entails no prolixity.....
» 18/10/2013 6:16:50 AM Well according to the leftists, the State represents society, so they have no ground to cr.....
» 18/10/2013 6:07:20 AM Yuyutsu I don't think there's any substantial difference between us. I think you're righ.....
» 17/10/2013 1:17:56 PM Hi Graham Thanks for asking, and for all your good work. Main thing is the ability to c.....
» 16/10/2013 8:54:30 AM "gathering support for a co-operative regional, if not international, approach to dea.....
» 14/10/2013 12:32:50 PM "If ownership isn't conferred, then there is nothing sacred and absolute about it ........
» 13/10/2013 12:43:34 PM “The reason nothing on earth could confer such strong/perfect/ideal … how then did the oth.....
» 12/10/2013 8:52:33 PM “Not sure what you think I’ve conceded here.” You just lost the entire argument. “But y.....
» 12/10/2013 2:36:42 PM Clem Well it's an interesting thought experiment, anyway. The internet would not do away.....
» 12/10/2013 11:37:55 AM "Jardine, I can’t think of a single one. Can you?" No, I can't. Thank you for c.....
» 12/10/2013 7:17:35 AM Susieonline How do you square your support of separate-sex classrooms with your equalitar.....
» 12/10/2013 7:12:49 AM I had a friend who when she was a young attractive women, became a teacher, only to met in.....
» 12/10/2013 7:12:17 AM Yuyutsu Your criticism of my remarkably fine theory of rights seems to be inconsistent. On.....
» 10/10/2013 12:28:05 PM Yuyutsu “Jardine's has no substance because while it would be nice to have such ownership.....
» 10/10/2013 6:41:17 AM Noel, the reason why we need rules of just conduct in the first place is to establish the .....
» 9/10/2013 12:38:37 PM “We can’t have the right to do whatever we like with our land for all sorts of reasons. “ .....
» 8/10/2013 7:34:16 AM Well according to the theory I'm prepared to hazard for anyone to shoot down if they can, .....
» 7/10/2013 7:18:30 PM (cont.) Our argument looks like this: J: “The principle of liberty states the legitimate.....
» 7/10/2013 7:16:39 PM From the principle of liberty, ownership of land should be, as at common law, to the centr.....
» 6/10/2013 11:35:06 PM "Pick an issue, and I’ll tell you my point of balance." Then I pick this issue:.....
» 6/10/2013 9:16:06 PM A couple of Ogden Nashisms: Books by Max Weber Are not much read by those whose occupatio.....
» 6/10/2013 6:18:03 PM Ludwig You mentioned a point of balance. Do you know what that is, or not? If not, a simpl.....
» 5/10/2013 6:36:24 PM "The point of balance is very often very difficult to achieve." It certainly is.....
» 5/10/2013 12:22:26 PM That's coming from someone who openly urges unlimited government power over everyone and e.....
» 5/10/2013 9:35:17 AM (cont.) This truth can be concluded from a different perspective. Why a “national” purpos.....
» 5/10/2013 9:31:21 AM Richard, certainly it's a good idea to keep checking our moral bearings and keep orienting.....
» 4/10/2013 9:44:08 PM Poirot, ozdoc Ad hominem means personal insult *in substitution of* rational argument, no.....
» 4/10/2013 9:29:36 PM Lyn Do you think that climate policy should be enforced, or not? Since you obviously hav.....
» 4/10/2013 12:10:39 PM Belly, it doesn't need "government approval". That's the whole point about seces.....
» 4/10/2013 11:09:15 AM Yes Peter, Candide is right. Euphemism is where we say something in a roundabout or cove.....
» 3/10/2013 1:59:49 PM Shockadelic, the LDP just won a Senate seat. In case you haven't noticed, it's you and the.....
» 3/10/2013 11:22:27 AM Very interesting. There's another micro-nation in Australia that you don't hear much abo.....
» 2/10/2013 6:33:50 PM Rhrosty You don't define what you mean or offer any evidence. But if you're suggesting t.....
» 2/10/2013 12:37:18 PM Daffy The term liberal originally denoted those in favour of liberty: low taxes, small gov.....
» 2/10/2013 10:52:10 AM Lyn, David G So are you in favour of the enforcement of climate policy or not, and if so, .....
» 2/10/2013 9:11:31 AM The 'voter confusion' argument cuts both ways. Surely it's more likely that the Liberals r.....
» 2/10/2013 8:59:11 AM The fatal flaw in Lyn's article is that she ignores or doesn't understand the nature of th.....
» 1/10/2013 9:49:39 PM David G So that's your evidence that the world is facing catastrophic man-made global war.....
» 1/10/2013 9:37:16 PM ozdoc Wow. More ad hom and equivocation. How very persuasive. So now "the planet&qu.....
» 1/10/2013 6:03:42 PM Firstly, notice how ozdoc has not supplied any data or reason to support the hypothesis of.....
» 1/10/2013 4:49:26 PM Chris, you are only demonstrating an atavisitc believing that adverse weather events must .....
» 1/10/2013 4:38:05 PM Snake oil. It all depends on the assumption that you know how to direct the economy so a.....
» 1/10/2013 4:32:02 PM David G If you've been following the debate closely, then show the IPCC's working for how.....
» 1/10/2013 11:37:49 AM Rhrosty, are you actually claiming that "a few strokes on the keyboard" can crea.....
» 1/10/2013 10:24:53 AM "The deniers will never win with this debate." The skeptics have already won. T.....
» 1/10/2013 8:00:11 AM Kelly, imagine if someone wrote an article saying “The latest Department of Defence report.....
» 30/09/2013 12:21:15 PM Yuyutsu It’s a valid point that corporations are not natural persons and don’t presumptive.....
» 30/09/2013 9:24:20 AM The glaring flaw in this article is that the author does not explain why it's not "pa.....
» 30/09/2013 9:06:04 AM The fatal flaw in this article is its assumption that older people are of equal value in t.....
» 29/09/2013 7:45:28 PM No evidence, ho hum. Notice how you assumed what's in issue, appealed to absent authority.....
» 29/09/2013 5:49:59 PM Notice how David G does not actually provide any evidence or reason to support his belief .....
» 29/09/2013 2:02:03 PM Poirot As has been pointed out ad nauseam, "science" does not consist of: - ad .....
» 29/09/2013 10:12:38 AM Equal opportunity is one of those things that sounds good at first, but when you actually .....
» 28/09/2013 9:22:20 PM Poirot It's okay for you to do the same if you're talking to someone who accepts your app.....
» 26/09/2013 10:41:00 AM (Google “Hitler economic policies” and see if you can find any that today’s Labor party *d.....
» 26/09/2013 10:40:23 AM The Labor party was born in the aspirations of working people for the coming of socialism......
» 25/09/2013 10:24:06 PM Daemon Well if they're that smart, perhaps they should jettison their theory of government.....
» 25/09/2013 10:07:09 PM Look we've already established that sexual equality is factually, rationally and ethically.....
» 24/09/2013 9:27:15 AM “However just because men and women are different does not mean that one is better than th.....
» 23/09/2013 3:11:30 PM It's not a public health problem. In fact it would be harder to find a better example of a.....
» 22/09/2013 6:50:01 PM We shouldn't even call it the "public service". Servant is the old word meanin.....
» 22/09/2013 11:22:27 AM The author's assumes the consensual transactions are "exploitative" but he neith.....
» 20/09/2013 4:21:36 PM ", and it is the well-being of these children that make conventional marriage very mu.....
» 20/09/2013 10:22:54 AM Bravo. Great article. The best I have seen in 5 years on OLO. The State should not be in.....
» 18/09/2013 9:40:22 AM And the "philosophers and artists and playwrights and humanitarians" would decid.....
» 18/09/2013 8:26:56 AM Thus the author and his ilk are hoist with their own petard. Their critique of capitalism .....
» 18/09/2013 8:21:22 AM The fatal flaw in the author's argument, and in the argument of Doran and Klein whom he ci.....
» 17/09/2013 7:52:03 AM “Stroud admitted that, as a conservationist and member of the International Union for Cons.....
» 16/09/2013 1:38:04 PM Susieonline is "embarassed" about the PM living economically because it never oc.....
» 16/09/2013 10:46:17 AM The knowledge problem is far more profound and insoluble than that. The problem ultimate.....
» 16/09/2013 10:26:37 AM Unfortunately Cobber the hound's level of low-grade circularity and personal abuse is all .....
» 15/09/2013 9:25:46 AM … the camps forever. This means the Convention confers huge unequal advantages on people.....
» 15/09/2013 9:19:19 AM Thanks guys. There’s also another dimension that all the mainstream parties are missing......
» 14/09/2013 12:33:52 PM With reference to the differences between Africa and Europe we find better predictive powe.....
» 14/09/2013 10:42:58 AM David G We are amazed at the cogency of your argument for government's wisdom and capacity.....
» 13/09/2013 10:27:44 PM … by statist beliefs motivating persecution in the countries of origin. It’s precisely the.....
» 13/09/2013 10:12:23 PM Thank you Daemon. About the sadness, I agree and feel so too. I do genuinely know what yo.....
» 13/09/2013 8:53:35 AM “My question remains; what cost to us as a people, this despicable, cruel, politically mot.....
» 13/09/2013 8:51:19 AM The author complains that current refugee policy does not represent “our country”, while s.....
» 12/09/2013 6:14:45 PM Got a great idea. Craig Thompson. He would make the ideal Labor leader going forward. H.....
» 12/09/2013 6:08:32 PM The problem is more fundamental than that. If Labor doesn't stand for socialism (old Labor.....
» 12/09/2013 10:25:36 AM And so is John Pilger, whose views on foreign policy completely contradict his views on do.....
» 12/09/2013 10:23:53 AM Good to see the left wing finally coming around to Ron Paul's position. Only took them a f.....
» 11/09/2013 10:00:45 PM The fact is, the electoral process intrinsically provides no basis for any of the commenta.....
» 11/09/2013 9:33:02 PM More circularity and appeal to authority, ho hum. It's enough to dispose of your entire ar.....
» 11/09/2013 8:48:39 PM And I deny that force is justified to restrict people’s freedom unless their actions are a.....
» 11/09/2013 8:46:15 PM But certainly they could. When polluters damage enjoyment of one’s personal or property ri.....
» 11/09/2013 8:41:42 PM (cont.) Baygon’s would justify coercive aggressions against person and property, so long a.....
» 11/09/2013 8:36:55 PM “perhaps you'd care to enunciate my ideology” I always put forward the arguments for libe.....
» 11/09/2013 6:04:43 PM "The mainstream media wouldn’t give the aspiring Senators five seconds of attention l.....
» 11/09/2013 12:18:44 AM Of course the remedy for everything they're crying about is to pay for the things voluntar.....
» 11/09/2013 12:14:06 AM Marilyn, Duffy But you’re against freedom, remember? According to you, government ipso fac.....
» 10/09/2013 8:43:51 PM Your only way out of this, consistent with your own argument, is to allege that society wo.....
» 10/09/2013 8:42:31 PM Jo, you're displaying your own economic illiteracy in your last two paragraphs. I know you.....
» 10/09/2013 8:25:15 PM Alan More circular reasoning, ho hum. At no stage have you given any *reason* for the *ec.....
» 10/09/2013 7:53:22 PM Again, you have no problem with regulations if they “help us achieve a better quality of l.....
» 10/09/2013 7:47:19 PM Secondly, the entire issue is precisely that the apologists for big government have shown .....
» 10/09/2013 7:42:06 PM I was aware of the Burkean reference, but knowledge of that history doesn’t put you on any.....
» 10/09/2013 8:58:01 AM "Save us from ideologues." Save us from you, Grim? Good idea! The fact that na.....
» 10/09/2013 7:56:56 AM Alan That's a fail. Statistics doesn't prove causation, it only proves correlation. To .....
» 9/09/2013 7:48:39 PM Multiple marriage with the consent of the parties is no more intrinsically exploitative th.....
» 9/09/2013 4:37:33 PM Speaking of marriage equality, does anyone supporting same-sex marriage support marriage e.....
» 9/09/2013 4:32:23 PM Alan When we talk of trying to explain a set of facts or data by the most parsimonious hy.....
» 9/09/2013 1:07:52 PM "Even so, John is right in so far as one day energy prices will drive production cost.....
» 9/09/2013 11:58:20 AM Notice how the socialist provides no reason or evidence for his beliefs, argues by meaning.....
» 9/09/2013 9:54:48 AM Australia could easily be "self-sufficient" if people wanted to live at the leve.....
» 8/09/2013 10:38:32 PM warmair Abbott's comment was a fact, unlike Rudd's unstatesmanlike dig at Bill Glasson. Y.....
» 8/09/2013 10:30:49 PM Yes Rudd and Gillard were the two worst prime ministers Australia has ever had: conceited,.....
» 7/09/2013 8:12:49 PM Look there's only two possibilities to explain Labor supporters. Either 1. they genuine.....
» 6/09/2013 10:08:21 PM "What I also find ironic is that the BER and insulation project were done in accordan.....
» 6/09/2013 9:27:41 PM Emperor Julian You can see, can’t you, that it would be stupidly illogical to reason thus.....
» 6/09/2013 7:15:34 PM Alan Your method is just as illogical as Judy’s. She did not identify net social benefits.....
» 6/09/2013 3:12:57 PM Guy, your fraud is so many layers deep, so deep and double-died in blatant mendacious dish.....
» 6/09/2013 3:04:15 PM Judy, obviously if your process of reasoning is illogical, your construction of the eviden.....
» 4/09/2013 12:10:13 PM Rhostry LOL. Too true. I admit feelings of relief and gratitude towards those swinging vo.....
» 4/09/2013 9:57:49 AM The sheer laughable stupidity of any Labor supporter acccusing the Liberals of not account.....
» 29/07/2013 9:58:40 PM Talking to an Afghan refugee the other day, he reckons, from talking to other Afghans who .....
» 22/07/2013 10:50:23 AM Great article. Wotta mess......
» 2/06/2013 10:13:12 AM and that’s exactly all the statists ever put up. Fifthly, most explanations of the state.....
» 2/06/2013 10:08:49 AM One of the favourite tactics of statists is to cry "anarchy!" when anyone questi.....
» 1/06/2013 2:39:36 PM mac >where did I say that (that the State [is] morally superior, that [it] has superio.....
» 31/05/2013 9:16:53 PM Oh yeah. I also forgot: - nutty little rituals like sitting in dimly-lit rooms under curly.....
» 31/05/2013 3:22:42 PM mac You didn't assume the state is an enemy, you assumed it's a god. “If one assumes tha.....
» 31/05/2013 1:04:08 PM Great article. All that's happened is that the same irrational beliefs that used to be i.....
» 31/05/2013 4:26:28 AM “Or we could characterise it as the will of the people evolves and is expressed through go.....
» 31/05/2013 4:16:18 AM >“">Extremely profitable? How so? What, in the money that they've issued? That .....
» 31/05/2013 4:09:45 AM Pericles “If the legal tender laws only cover legal tender, how do they manage to exert a .....
» 29/05/2013 11:56:20 PM It is that last development that you have totally confused with money as a general categor.....
» 29/05/2013 11:46:44 PM 3. Next we get money substitutes. You deposit your gold for safe-keeping. The safekeeper g.....
» 29/05/2013 11:38:15 PM For example in the early days of the settlement at Sydney, competing monies circulated in .....
» 29/05/2013 11:25:34 PM Pericles I’m asking about the conceptual category of money itself, of which fiat money an.....
» 29/05/2013 8:33:53 AM "She [Rinehart] is busily trying to raise $7 billion in debt finance for the Roy Hill.....
» 28/05/2013 7:21:03 PM Of course if there were really no significant difference between money and a) other means.....
» 28/05/2013 7:17:23 PM Perhaps a little less supercilious condescension is needed in your posts, Pericles. The .....
» 28/05/2013 10:11:21 AM "This concept, observed by the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths, is taken to mean .....
» 28/05/2013 9:16:47 AM The problem is that abuses aren't recognised when they're committed by states, owing to th.....
» 28/05/2013 8:55:26 AM "Actually, it is according to international law that economic migrants are not legiti.....
» 28/05/2013 8:50:13 AM Presumably Thailand's integration in Asia is limited by the fact the state there is a mona.....
» 27/05/2013 8:07:46 PM I'm not asking about money-as-legal-tender. I'm asking about money-as-money. In history,.....
» 26/05/2013 7:59:10 PM The guy who got killed was a British soldier who had fought in Afghanistan. Had he kille.....
» 26/05/2013 7:03:50 PM You yourself recently said words to that effect that the older you get, the more you are i.....
» 26/05/2013 6:55:08 PM Wm Trevor >“If we demolish the government's monopoly on the supply of money and someon.....
» 26/05/2013 6:29:53 PM Thank you KarlX Pericles Either you deny that there is any significant difference between.....
» 24/05/2013 9:21:10 PM No-one agrees with your theory that cream puffs, and dildos, and railway cars are money, b.....
» 24/05/2013 5:30:08 PM The sky is falling! The sky is falling! We're all going to die! We're going to be roasted,.....
» 24/05/2013 8:39:47 AM How is my process of reasoning like that? You're projecting onto me your own process of .....
» 23/05/2013 9:46:23 PM My point is that just because a thing is a medium of exchange, doesn’t mean it’s money. I .....
» 22/05/2013 7:01:47 PM Pericles "In the sense that diesel is a fuel derived from a mineral, and gold is als.....
» 22/05/2013 10:03:53 AM The problem is not internationalism, it's trying to do it through states. "Sympathis.....
» 21/05/2013 7:37:58 PM However I didn’t address secession because a) it’s not a “small sacrifice”; and the very .....
» 21/05/2013 7:35:43 PM Pericles Then what, according to you, is the point of legal tender laws? BTW I actually.....
» 21/05/2013 7:32:04 PM Wm Trevor >>I understand the currency concept of a note having a notional extrinsic .....
» 21/05/2013 8:50:28 AM Thank you for that reference. So given that my Jardine dollars must be denominated in Co.....
» 19/05/2013 8:26:25 PM And so what role do the legal tender laws play in this do you think?.....
» 19/05/2013 1:23:01 PM Yes, when I tried to buy a TV at Harvey Normans they weren't willing to accept my "Ja.....
» 18/05/2013 7:00:12 PM Divergence See how your approach is one of mere credulity? Has it ever occurred to you .....
» 18/05/2013 1:32:39 PM "Denial" - so that assumes you've already proved it right? And where? Oh, that's.....
» 18/05/2013 12:45:06 AM All this fibble-fabble about logic LOL! Ludwig just can't see why he should bother himse.....
» 18/05/2013 12:24:03 AM "out of 12,000 scientific papers published on the issue of climate change between 199.....
» 17/05/2013 6:33:25 PM You’ve both just shown that you don’t understand the economic calculation argument as it a.....
» 17/05/2013 2:32:28 PM Ludwig You haven't shown a) that you understand it (while admitting you don't), and b) .....
» 16/05/2013 8:05:31 PM Arjay So why is that an argument in favour of government a) having a monopoly power to i.....
» 16/05/2013 6:59:47 PM Arjay You still haven't explained or justified your belief that the money supply needs to .....
» 16/05/2013 4:35:57 PM Wm Trevor >>Brad deLong said >>"My view is ... insane." So what? .....
» 16/05/2013 4:04:27 PM Wm Trevor You need to improve your comprehension skills. “In an effort to assist Ludwig .....
» 16/05/2013 3:46:56 PM >>The quote you cited is not in the article titled "The culturally imperial and.....
» 15/05/2013 11:26:28 PM Arjay, you have never explained or justified your belief that the money supply needs to be.....
» 15/05/2013 10:45:38 PM It means that, under full socialism, the government *must* grossly waste economic and natu.....
» 15/05/2013 10:40:38 PM Money can only be used to calculate values of things exchanged against money. It can’t be .....
» 15/05/2013 10:38:30 PM Ludwig “Oh, so because sustainability is not mentioned in the constitution, our governmen.....
» 15/05/2013 10:34:43 PM Wm Trevor “faith-based economics” What’s that supposed to mean? Austrian methodology is.....
» 15/05/2013 1:05:55 PM david f Here: "We have to consider whether it is wise to abandon the tools for maint.....
» 15/05/2013 11:54:04 AM Old man Only problem with that is your non-evidence based belief in the moral superiority .....
» 14/05/2013 11:10:07 PM “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” by Murray Rothbard http://mises.org/books/whathas.....
» 14/05/2013 11:04:53 PM But if it’s true, why doesn’t it apply to all markets? 11. If it’s true, why not have fu.....
» 14/05/2013 11:03:14 PM 3. Foyle’s “New Economic Perspectives” takes as its framework a “modern, fiat money syste.....
» 14/05/2013 11:02:33 PM Rhostry (It’s not me who’s being aggressive – it’s you two. You’re advocating the State v.....
» 13/05/2013 10:56:39 PM “And we do need to adopt very different economic models, given the flawed ones we rely on .....
» 13/05/2013 10:50:04 PM Rhostry “We elect the Govt, that Govt then makes decisions in our name. From my reading, t.....
» 13/05/2013 8:03:14 PM “What is so different about sustainability?” The officers in charge of providing roads and.....
» 13/05/2013 7:59:28 PM “I can’t see a reason in the world why I shouldn’t assume that government IS inherently ve.....
» 13/05/2013 7:48:03 PM Ludwig Imagine a discussion with an ecologist who assumed that eucalyptus communities domi.....
» 13/05/2013 6:59:47 PM Foyle “The author ignores the role that the electors confer on the Federal Government, th.....
» 12/05/2013 10:56:18 AM Poirot You know that you're not interested in the science; posting links is all you've got.....
» 11/05/2013 3:15:59 PM Poirot Oh a link to the Guardian - must be more of your idea of "science". Bu.....
» 11/05/2013 3:11:03 PM My first car was a 1958 FC Holden: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=1958+holden&client=s.....
» 11/05/2013 12:10:59 PM Belly, he's right. You blame Gillard, but what you're not appreciating is that it's Gillar.....
» 10/05/2013 9:43:39 PM Or did you hear about the three econometricians who went hunting? The first econometrici.....
» 10/05/2013 9:35:44 PM Ludwig What would be an example of something that government would *not* have a right and .....
» 10/05/2013 9:51:20 AM Hooray Yuyutsu! Foyle So there is a fundamental inconsistency at the core of orthodox the.....
» 10/05/2013 9:03:32 AM BTW did you hear about the economics professor of the Efficient Market Hypothesis walking .....
» 9/05/2013 11:42:50 PM "I suggest if you want to argue against views expressed by people like Ian Macfarlane.....
» 9/05/2013 9:49:06 PM Ludwig The issue, as between us, is whether government has the competence that you say it .....
» 9/05/2013 7:38:53 PM "I note that no one has argued against my quotes from the speeches of the retired for.....
» 9/05/2013 10:47:13 AM Notice how at no stage have you actually turned your mind to whether your beliefs are true.....
» 9/05/2013 10:42:11 AM "If the Government ran a referendum on it costing $3 Billion most taxpayers would pro.....
» 9/05/2013 10:12:19 AM ""It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized.....
» 9/05/2013 10:11:11 AM Your exploitative, socially unjust marxoid ideology (there's some argument by slogans to m.....
» 8/05/2013 6:51:02 PM Ludwig If the government has a Department of Unicorn Policy, does that mean unicorns exis.....
» 8/05/2013 8:44:16 AM "Well, it's certainly not the current over inflated value..." How do you know? .....
» 7/05/2013 5:08:35 PM Rhosty How would you know what the "true value" of the Australian dollar is? Wh.....
» 6/05/2013 9:36:04 PM Poirot And thanks for your positive engagement. I never declare that someone has lost th.....
» 6/05/2013 9:29:26 PM Ludwig Thank you for conceding everything that is in issue. 1. You can’t distinguish want.....
» 6/05/2013 9:36:06 AM Ludwig So after all this, all you can come up with is to insist as a precondition of the d.....
» 5/05/2013 7:09:03 PM Poirot There's no doubt it’s a complex issue, and it may be that current usages are unsus.....
» 5/05/2013 4:25:16 AM you can show that government can't achieve sustainability, why don't you just write it dow.....
» 4/05/2013 6:18:04 PM If so 1. How do you distinguish between human needs and wants? 2. How do you know how much.....
» 4/05/2013 6:15:27 PM Poirot There’s no point discussing it if you can’t understand that logical fallacies inval.....
» 3/05/2013 9:44:43 PM Poirot You're not genuinely interested and stop lying and evading. You've got the onus o.....
» 2/05/2013 2:50:14 PM "Why don't you show it then?" What proof will you accept?.....
» 2/05/2013 10:41:18 AM Ludwig "Government is capable of soliciting the best minds in the country, noting ov.....
» 1/05/2013 9:36:03 PM Robert So according to your perspective, everything that everyone in the country earns and.....
» 1/05/2013 8:02:42 PM Ludwig Suppose you say that the baby bonus should be abolished. And suppose someone answer.....
» 30/04/2013 3:48:02 PM Divergence Notice how the example you give depends on a resource owned in common? That mea.....
» 29/04/2013 8:25:50 PM "Outside academia, virtually everyone i ask around Albury Wodonga is very worried ind.....
» 29/04/2013 7:41:40 PM You have not answered my argument that State decision-making, and common ownership, necess.....
» 29/04/2013 7:38:54 PM Ludwig, firstly, suppose an ecologist said “We hypothesise that the distribution of speci.....
» 28/04/2013 8:35:18 PM By your own admission, you're a committed supporter of government representing only elites.....
» 28/04/2013 7:33:00 PM Those who don’t want ‘em, aren’t forced to pay. What could be fairer and more sustainable .....
» 28/04/2013 7:30:48 PM Those who don’t want ‘em, aren’t forced to pay. What could be fairer and more sustainable .....
» 28/04/2013 7:22:23 PM Divergence Okay got those docs. “The growthists like to claim that more people will mak.....
» 28/04/2013 10:31:06 AM Divergence I can’t download that document: try again perhaps? “Australian Wildlife Conse.....
» 27/04/2013 5:17:37 PM Ludwig To elucidate, suppose someone wanted to use an industrial hammer-drill to make a b.....
» 26/04/2013 10:12:26 PM "If government was truly representative of the people their wouldn't be a problem...&.....
» 26/04/2013 7:09:16 PM The only thing I know about Clive Palmer is that he made what seemed to me a sensible sugg.....
» 26/04/2013 7:01:05 PM Squeers So do you get the connection between what you're complaining about, and the fact t.....
» 26/04/2013 6:33:55 PM Divergence The control of people moving in to a country is one of the core claims of state.....
» 26/04/2013 8:03:59 AM Fourthly, you make a good advertisement for abolishing state education since it obviously .....
» 26/04/2013 8:02:34 AM Foyle Notice how you weren't able to answer any of my questions because they prove you wro.....
» 24/04/2013 8:47:59 AM The obvious answer to those who urge the beneficence and necessity of government providing.....
» 24/04/2013 8:06:47 AM Ludwig, scarcity of resources is caused by nature. It can't be made to just go away. Your .....
» 23/04/2013 9:21:12 PM It's all very well to say how good it would be for governments to have a view to the long .....
» 23/04/2013 8:58:13 PM Water? Infrastructure? Environmental management? All run by the government. When governme.....
» 23/04/2013 3:50:42 PM Foyle perhaps you should think what a government is before you promote action based on wha.....
» 23/04/2013 8:32:54 AM Why don't you just move out to the country? There's plenty of room......
» 23/04/2013 7:52:29 AM Geoff Since you have failed repeatedly to show how your beliefs have any rational connecti.....
» 22/04/2013 8:15:30 PM Curious M You're just a denialist. The warmists have been challenged on this site over and.....
» 22/04/2013 7:50:34 PM In all this debate what no-one from any side has explained is why government should be reg.....
» 19/04/2013 8:54:42 AM An interesting and informative article. First let's be clear in our concepts and terms. .....
» 18/04/2013 1:39:18 AM Therefore the question is ALWAYS how to balance present human values (including nature con.....
» 18/04/2013 1:32:37 AM Individual, Geoff The question is not whether one thinks the world's population is unsust.....
» 16/04/2013 8:50:44 PM Paul "Start with Howard, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, the man lied through his teeth......
» 15/04/2013 11:51:02 PM Saltpetre "Government is the great fiction by which everyone tries to live at everyo.....
» 15/04/2013 4:05:23 PM (The underlying legal reason why they landed in Geraldton is because the chicanery of both.....
» 15/04/2013 4:00:49 PM A good informative article with good analysis. Duncan People keep discussing refugee pol.....
» 15/04/2013 7:59:06 AM An interesting and informative critique. “For the first time, questions arose about the .....
» 15/04/2013 1:45:04 AM Imagine if the next government were to run a public competition for ideas on how to reduce.....
» 15/04/2013 1:28:06 AM Subjective preferences consist of ordinal data, whereas measurement consists of cardinal d.....
» 15/04/2013 1:00:48 AM So, how do you know the appropriate level of consumption for any given person? Without kno.....
» 15/04/2013 12:55:04 AM Geoff “There is no moral level of consumption, I am just acutely aware that my current im.....
» 13/04/2013 9:20:45 PM Geoff All that assumes that you're right. So why don't you answer my question which you .....
» 13/04/2013 8:05:26 PM Geoff All that supercilious ad hominem mind-reading assumes that you are already right in .....
» 13/04/2013 5:25:47 PM Sustainability is not of this world, not of this universe. Every second the distribution o.....
» 11/04/2013 5:44:16 PM Geoff of Perth Your self-abnegation is commendable piety in one so ostentatiously pious. S.....
» 11/04/2013 7:42:33 AM AGW is just a nutty cult, that's all. If all the fallacies that comprise its line of reaso.....
» 11/04/2013 7:19:30 AM Geoff of Perth Have you stopped your unequal consumption of natural resources yet? Too .....
» 10/04/2013 10:11:03 PM Divergence Who's "we"? Your method of determining what science is, is unscien.....
» 10/04/2013 3:57:31 PM Humans are a noxious pest, a plague, a cancer. Everyone should stop phucking. No-one sho.....
» 8/04/2013 2:52:19 PM Foyle “To do so allows the various religions free reign to indoctrinate the the youngster.....
» 8/04/2013 9:15:27 AM In contemporary Australia, by far the most prevalent creationist belief system is the idea.....
» 6/04/2013 12:34:31 PM “Political process in a democracy is not about "force" and "threaten"......
» 6/04/2013 4:11:37 AM “This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employm.....
» 5/04/2013 7:27:42 PM Feminists, to the extent of their political program, do want to replace our free society w.....
» 5/04/2013 4:04:55 PM Ludwig, the other day you were saying that Labor could improve their woeful fortunes by of.....
» 5/04/2013 3:15:19 PM I am aware of the history and theology of Islam; as well as feminist theory and polemics; .....
» 5/04/2013 6:41:38 AM Daffy "Once they have the numbers the advocates of Islam will be able to demand that .....
» 4/04/2013 6:48:05 PM Interesting discussion. I agree that the point of Klaas's article was unclear. Left-wing.....
» 4/04/2013 3:16:42 PM More of the tedious moral and intellectual incoherence of the coercionists. "If only.....
» 3/04/2013 7:44:05 AM "another illness called pathological altruism" No, pathological altruism is whe.....
» 3/04/2013 6:01:23 AM csteele The end result remains that you haven't proved the warmist argument or anything ne.....
» 2/04/2013 7:44:21 PM Philip, I have done a lot of cases for refugees who came into Australia via Indonesia. The.....
» 2/04/2013 7:30:49 PM The obvious defect of this article and its theory of human rights is that they don't defin.....
» 2/04/2013 3:22:23 PM … to the statistical compilations of the western world! But correlation doesn’t prove caus.....
» 1/04/2013 6:50:12 PM "We need a revolutionary change in mind-set, not a bandaid, not a tweek here or there.....
» 1/04/2013 5:06:37 PM "We need a revolutionary change in mind-set, not a bandaid, not a tweek here or there.....
» 1/04/2013 11:27:20 AM Bazz Also, the fact that energy becomes more scarce doesn't make people magically cease to.....
» 1/04/2013 11:21:53 AM Bazz "At this stage it does not matter a tinkers damn what you do with the money.&quo.....
» 31/03/2013 8:44:18 PM Csteele I’ve shown that your argument ends in a non sequitur. You haven’t shown how it do.....
» 31/03/2013 6:16:37 PM Poirot "It's all about JKJ "winning" Ad hominem: fallacy. See? That's a.....
» 31/03/2013 6:04:13 PM Bazz You are contradicting yourself, and obviously don’t understand the arguments. > .....
» 31/03/2013 3:09:31 PM csteele I’m torn between admitting, admitting but saying it doesn’t prove what you’re cont.....
» 30/03/2013 10:17:54 PM "I feel I am entitled to pose these for consideration as givens and expect that only .....
» 30/03/2013 4:55:54 PM a) As it is common ground that recourse to fallacies is not allowed, and as appeal to abse.....
» 30/03/2013 4:54:30 PM Csteele 1. Renouncing fallacies “I sincerely hope we are explicitly renouncing them toget.....
» 29/03/2013 7:13:30 PM Alan So, how does the economy know whether the source of the stimulus funding is criminal .....
» 29/03/2013 7:08:15 PM "this can only be viewed as government-supported highway robbery, nothing less" .....
» 29/03/2013 6:44:10 PM Loudmouth I hope so too as I have never seen a warmist argument that, when challenged, doe.....
» 28/03/2013 8:03:54 PM Seamus, you and Diane are the ones arguing for a political solution, remember? Well? You.....
» 28/03/2013 7:56:23 PM Rhosty, that was a very interesting couple of posts. I reckon you should write an article .....
» 28/03/2013 7:46:48 PM Csteele Can I just say, while you are paused… “I took the time to formulate a question th.....
» 28/03/2013 8:05:46 AM “For instance does a 'warmist' need to have concluded all three of your propositions?” De.....
» 28/03/2013 8:03:09 AM “Normally I wouldn't let someone get away with a “for the sake of the argument” fallacy.” .....
» 28/03/2013 5:56:44 AM Why is that a low at all? I know there's a legal difference between the forced redistribut.....
» 27/03/2013 8:58:28 PM csteele LOL. Okay: Yes I noticed only the minute difference, not the hour difference. M.....
» 27/03/2013 3:41:01 PM I was out fixing fences and did not go into the thread before your initial challenge and l.....
» 27/03/2013 3:31:17 PM Well if you're using cost/benefit analysis, why not the cost/benefit analysis of profit an.....
» 27/03/2013 6:10:03 AM Poirot We are amazed at your latest proof that government stimulus policies create net ben.....
» 26/03/2013 10:05:15 PM csteele Thanks for your challenge which I gladly accept. A mere demonstration of sustain.....
» 26/03/2013 10:01:47 PM ... she was brought to a full stop by questions she can’t answer without disproving her ow.....
» 26/03/2013 9:41:59 PM Alan It might be helpful to consider some examples. What about a public works program fo.....
» 26/03/2013 4:00:41 PM Buy a Mac?.....
» 25/03/2013 5:17:56 PM To prove this he refers off to other people all sharing the same belief system, but at no .....
» 25/03/2013 5:14:40 PM Alan I've read your links and just as I suspected, they don’t prove your case at all, they.....
» 24/03/2013 9:50:26 PM Alan You are kidding, right? Who's "we"? Your argument has again degenerate.....
» 24/03/2013 8:43:30 PM Poirot, you have never provided data and reasons I've asked for and neither has any warmis.....
» 23/03/2013 10:30:24 PM This means that the empirical evidence, of itself, is not enough. We must fall back, as yo.....
» 23/03/2013 10:27:37 PM Hi Alan Well I think you’re doing the best you can with what you’ve got! The issue indeed.....
» 23/03/2013 6:26:26 AM The question is whether the theory can be logically defended. If it can’t, then all the au.....
» 23/03/2013 6:24:00 AM Robert You do realise, don’t you, that the Federal Reserve is a creation of the Federal Re.....
» 22/03/2013 10:14:31 AM Poirot Do you think your evasions are not obvious to the most casual observer? I'm a &q.....
» 22/03/2013 9:23:05 AM JO'N. Logical fallacy. Do you affirm that earthquakes make society richer? That destroy.....
» 22/03/2013 8:26:33 AM Hi Alan “Hence it's no surprise that most Australian's are surprised at Australia's surpr.....
» 22/03/2013 8:02:30 AM Thus the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the warmists is demonstrated. Their techni.....
» 22/03/2013 4:30:33 AM "Professor Bell draws attention here to the big picture and the big questions ...&quo.....
» 22/03/2013 3:26:27 AM Alan Do you assume that the credit for the economy belongs to the government? Putting as.....
» 21/03/2013 10:15:56 PM The [Deleted for abuse.] just defies belief. Obviously if the government is to plan the .....
» 21/03/2013 9:35:39 PM RobertLePage, mac You don't understand what you're talking about and it's as simple as tha.....
» 20/03/2013 1:16:41 PM Warmair It’s still impermissibly illogical. “The question is basically an attempt to int.....
» 20/03/2013 10:20:36 AM Thus yet again it turns out that the warmists, so full of haughty insults about others not.....
» 19/03/2013 5:17:09 PM warmair The issue is not whether you can find evidence of warming in some part of the glo.....
» 18/03/2013 10:11:49 PM warmair Please acknowledge that you understand that appeal to absent authority is a logica.....
» 18/03/2013 4:58:34 PM 9. “It is not okay to treat the role of government as irrelevant to the production of know.....
» 18/03/2013 4:53:51 PM Okay let’s look at the arguments so far. Warmists 1. “It must be so because it must be s.....
» 14/03/2013 1:38:48 PM There you have it folks. When the climate clowns are challenged to actually join issue, ro.....
» 14/03/2013 11:15:48 AM warmair Notice how that ASSUMES that we face catastrophic global warming that policy can .....
» 14/03/2013 9:44:28 AM Poirot Wow. We are amazed at your proof that the world faces catastrophic global warming t.....
» 14/03/2013 8:40:39 AM The warmists have been completely and totally thrashed on this topic over and over again i.....
» 12/03/2013 3:44:13 PM Okay Geoff, let's assume in your favour that all of that is granted. So what?.....
» 12/03/2013 2:16:26 PM PeterA Unforuntately, all that you, and all the warmists have posted in this thread, are a.....
» 12/03/2013 10:22:20 AM Wow popnperish Amazing proof that the world faces catastrophic global warming - your mere .....
» 12/03/2013 10:18:41 AM Everything should be free......
» 12/03/2013 10:12:42 AM Yes, you feed the temperature data into the equation, and it tells you what the tax rate s.....
» 12/03/2013 8:31:02 AM Pest Referring to absent authority doesn't prove your case, it proves ours. Science means .....
» 12/03/2013 8:12:54 AM "despite Wenda's calls for an end to Indonesia's illegal occupation " This rais.....
» 11/03/2013 11:44:04 AM Notice how none of the warmist responses actually provided any proof whatsoever of what th.....
» 11/03/2013 10:50:52 AM Poirot You have already conceded defeat on this entire topic, remember? http://forum.onlin.....
» 11/03/2013 10:21:05 AM To me, feminism doesn't mean things female, or femininity. It means a political movement t.....
» 11/03/2013 9:54:18 AM To the author and David G Stop pretending you haven't been thrashed and beaten on this sub.....
» 10/03/2013 3:16:48 PM landrightsfree4all "Why would you want to take what I need when there is plenty for a.....
» 9/03/2013 7:55:43 PM Any other way requires you to perform a self-contradiction, which is what you have done. .....
» 9/03/2013 7:54:13 PM We agree that much “title” to land originates in theft, murder etc.; on the desirability o.....
» 9/03/2013 8:05:28 AM So your theory doesn't make sense, even if your own terms, quite apart from the fact that .....
» 9/03/2013 8:03:14 AM "Needs are things without which life ends " Like an ambulance, and surgery, and.....
» 8/03/2013 6:31:36 PM landrights4all You obviously haven't thought through the issues. The fact we all use lan.....
» 8/03/2013 6:08:42 AM landrights4all Every time someone is born the equal share would change, right? Economist.....
» 7/03/2013 6:15:07 AM "You do realize you're stealing from those less fortunate than yourself with the aid .....
» 6/03/2013 4:23:13 PM Thanks Yuyutsu Daffy "do you really think that the contents of these two websites ar.....
» 6/03/2013 11:09:24 AM Daffy and Foyle, well said. I hope you remember to keep the same critical skills active in.....
» 5/03/2013 9:31:34 PM I get to fly around and stay in hotels, there's no heavy lifting, no dangerous machinery, .....
» 5/03/2013 9:28:08 PM onthebeach Very interesting articles and good post. I am perhaps interesting in that I a.....
» 5/03/2013 9:48:56 AM "generals have been the actual and absolute rulers of the country, reaping the reward.....
» 5/03/2013 6:42:29 AM Banjo You can't get citizenship in Australia just by being born here. landrights4all I t.....
» 4/03/2013 5:37:17 PM All Interesting discussion. o sung wu "Don't they still retain normal appellant acc.....
» 4/03/2013 5:13:51 PM Tony And does that work?.....
» 4/03/2013 6:48:01 AM Also I can't seem why people think democracy is the ideal form of government. By democra.....
» 4/03/2013 6:29:51 AM "Intelligent and rational" and "Greens party" are two concepts that do.....
» 4/03/2013 6:21:55 AM It seems to me the problem with this article and the following discussion is that if you d.....
» 3/03/2013 3:49:49 PM Saltpetre The article is about single mothers, and it's enough for me to point out that th.....
» 3/03/2013 3:28:35 PM "...When governments build political towers based on the "corporate model",.....
» 2/03/2013 4:26:48 PM You raise some interesting questions, in amongst your misrepresentations and misunderstand.....
» 2/03/2013 9:57:28 AM Well looks like if I was a politician my policy should be to withdraw from the Convention......
» 2/03/2013 9:31:57 AM o sung wu I was probably putting it a big high say "legally irrelevant". It's le.....
» 1/03/2013 7:20:02 PM Oh by the way, don't laugh at that quip about the Hilton. The reality is not all that diff.....
» 1/03/2013 7:07:07 PM "Yet, from my own understanding, it's just us and the Kiwis, are prepared to abide by.....
» 1/03/2013 3:37:57 PM Great piece, Nick. Your best so far I reckon. Diver Dan “Misleading or deceptive conduct”.....
» 1/03/2013 9:33:38 AM Ironical that the consequence of the feminists fighting internationally for more freely av.....
» 1/03/2013 9:17:23 AM Thank you for admitting that the single mother’s pension is worse for real children, real .....
» 1/03/2013 6:46:28 AM Kate That comment would only make sense if government got the money from a moonbeam. You n.....
» 28/02/2013 4:46:11 PM "Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power. They must reluctantly admit .....
» 28/02/2013 4:28:56 PM I would be interested in people’s opinions whether the government should process refugee c.....
» 27/02/2013 8:06:11 PM Saltpetre Never heard of a tribal society with a single parents’ pension, did you? No. .....
» 27/02/2013 7:59:29 PM Yuyutsu We agree that there is no moral right to government's claimed monopoly power over .....
» 26/02/2013 9:43:02 AM "... common wealth is pillaged for private gain" Not much of an argument for ho.....
» 25/02/2013 6:57:18 AM Kate that link went to a "Page Not Found". You're still not addressing the issu.....
» 24/02/2013 10:57:05 PM Foyle You don't understand what you're talking about and you're contradicting yourself. .....
» 24/02/2013 10:47:36 PM Poirot Thank you for conceding what is in issue: that your method of assuming what you don.....
» 24/02/2013 10:31:00 PM "So are you saying that men should not support the children they father. " No. .....
» 24/02/2013 8:45:28 PM Cherful Stop trying to squirm out of the issue. You need to justify the use of force to tr.....
» 24/02/2013 6:44:13 PM Yuyutsu Your reasoning is right up until, but excluding, the idea that using money somehow.....
» 22/02/2013 3:00:21 PM Poirot Ho hum, more appeals to absent authority, no proof, just circular reasoning. You.....
» 21/02/2013 7:42:44 PM There's nothing wrong with a sexual contract, only the remedy of specific performance woul.....
» 21/02/2013 7:15:50 PM Jay It's heading in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough. Parental responsi.....
» 21/02/2013 9:42:00 AM Foyle You have completely confused charitable with violence-based transactions. And you .....
» 21/02/2013 8:59:02 AM Petra, how about posting a copy of this alleged “social contract”? I’m sure I never signed.....
» 20/02/2013 7:24:53 PM Poirot, stop pretending that your belief is not circular; you have never proved it; you on.....
» 20/02/2013 7:14:59 PM Ho hum, so what. Your assumption that government can manage the economy is still wrong. &.....
» 20/02/2013 1:05:28 PM Public transport systems need to be centred on the Great Gibber Desert. This would decen.....
» 20/02/2013 7:56:48 AM I think we can all agree it's a mess. And those speaking the truth will admit it's going t.....
» 20/02/2013 7:39:02 AM It's a good question. The very variability of answers in this thread shows how difficult.....
» 20/02/2013 7:04:27 AM o sung wu The question should be whether a belief is false, not whether it's comforting......
» 15/02/2013 8:07:37 AM >“Branding government involvement as socialism is twaddle.” You advocate presumptive g.....
» 15/02/2013 7:58:06 AM JohnBennetts The reason you have no rational principle by which you can identify what res.....
» 14/02/2013 2:03:15 PM There is no issue that people should be able to voluntarily pay for their own or someone e.....
» 14/02/2013 12:43:13 PM "Where was the opposing voice from the economic so-called rationalists then?" I.....
» 14/02/2013 10:03:15 AM JohnBennets Interesting. By what rational principle do you decide whether the funding of a.....
» 14/02/2013 3:46:58 AM Don is right that competition is a necessary discovery procedure. However he is mistaken.....
» 12/02/2013 8:42:12 AM Saltpetre That is not so much a theory, as five categories of assertions/assumptions that .....
» 11/02/2013 7:59:48 PM Arjay It's you adopting the ostrich posture. The fact that governments, in their attemp.....
» 11/02/2013 4:59:28 PM Those on the receiving end of the greens' irrational worship of big government as some kin.....
» 11/02/2013 4:57:33 PM Robert LePage is actually arguing that how much fuel there is, does not make any differenc.....
» 11/02/2013 8:17:59 AM It sometimes seems that government is like a blank screen, on which people feel free to pr.....
» 7/02/2013 5:46:02 PM So Poirot have you and Naomi Klein cut down your consumption levels to those you think eve.....
» 7/02/2013 5:22:01 PM David Swanton, even in his own terms, is not against discrimination. He thinks some discri.....
» 4/02/2013 2:03:35 PM Philip says that the vast majority of mainstream economists missed or denied the housing b.....
» 5/08/2012 3:56:43 PM Jon J, your remarks are usually spot-on, and certainly more "evidence-based administr.....
» 5/08/2012 3:46:21 PM "If you asked a grade 7 child why discrimination is wrong, they would say something l.....
» 3/08/2012 7:15:27 PM Malcolm if you've got a cafe, and your custom is greater when you employ young good-lookin.....
» 19/06/2012 10:28:25 PM > nobody is going hungry because Australia is not producing more food. How do you kno.....
» 19/06/2012 7:47:07 PM that last point – statists never do - which involves a total demolition of the interventio.....
» 19/06/2012 7:43:26 PM Divergence Sorry, my apologies, I meant to refer to this quote by Saltpetre “Humans a 'pes.....
» 19/06/2012 10:24:16 AM Ludwig, some questions: 1. How do you reconcile these two statements: “You are branding my.....
» 17/06/2012 11:22:52 PM Yabby, you need to compare apples with apples. Only things that are exchanged against mone.....
» 17/06/2012 7:30:15 PM "The environment does in fact have value over other peoples interests, at times.".....
» 17/06/2012 6:14:21 PM So squeers, the labour theory of value is right because capitalism is exploitative, and ca.....
» 17/06/2012 1:07:24 PM Soviet collectivization of agriculture? Rudd and Gillard’s pink batts? You’re already look.....
» 16/06/2012 11:13:12 PM Squeers, if someone pays $10 million for labour to dig a gold mine, and the mine ends up p.....
» 16/06/2012 10:24:07 AM david f The difference is that the retention of power by monopolists of power is not, of i.....
» 16/06/2012 1:07:40 AM An absurd jumble of self-contradictory statements. Production is not made more efficient.....
» 16/06/2012 1:03:14 AM An absurd jumble of self-contradictory statements. Production is not made more efficient.....
» 11/06/2012 9:29:00 PM d) Do you notice how the concept of freedom is completely missing from your conceptual fra.....
» 11/06/2012 9:25:51 PM So that’s what the issue. It’s not about caring for children per se, since that could be d.....
» 11/06/2012 9:20:51 PM Cherful The fact that people have intrinsic value is an argument against, not in favour of.....
» 10/06/2012 6:51:35 PM Cherful It's you who are denigrating the value of motherhood by suggesting that no-one wo.....
» 9/06/2012 1:56:39 PM The sole parents pension should be abolished. The responsibility for looking after childre.....
» 13/12/2011 12:40:58 AM Whatever the guy in the blizzard’s purpose was in being where he could get caught in a bli.....
» 7/12/2011 10:05:42 PM “If he is near starving, and there is no alternative, of course he has.” And what if the .....
» 5/12/2011 7:00:47 AM "In my view, the right to property has limits, set by other, more important rights, s.....
» 1/11/2011 8:09:49 AM Good article Cameron. However the most parsimonious explanation of almost all the sympto.....
» 31/10/2011 8:35:51 AM The fact that Malthus was wrong never seems to deter the enthusiasm of his adherents. Hi.....
» 31/10/2011 8:34:16 AM Saul says that income inequality is cause for concern, but doesn’t say why. If the basis o.....
» 11/09/2010 10:37:42 PM Chill, Briar Rose "The right to enter into legal marriage is granted to hetero coupl.....
» 11/09/2010 6:24:16 PM "I'm seeking to remove rules that prevent people doing what they are perfectly entitl.....
» 11/09/2010 10:17:18 AM It is absurd to say that government registration of marriage is a "human right"......
» 11/09/2010 9:56:29 AM Your question assumes a "totalitarian private sector", whatever that means. (W.....
» 10/09/2010 11:44:27 AM Thanks Sells; but the government does regulate consensual sexual relationships. For exampl.....
» 10/09/2010 10:04:19 AM Human beings are destroying the environment. They are noxious pests who should be machine-.....
» 10/09/2010 10:02:29 AM "The modern "everyman" of consumer society is a propagandized individual, p.....
» 10/09/2010 9:50:43 AM All the same arguments apply against letting the state define marriage. If the church is n.....
» 9/09/2010 4:52:31 PM Perhaps if you keep repeating your fallacies they'll become true eventually? Obviously i.....
» 9/09/2010 3:59:14 PM Whereas true freedom is the freedom to obey the government, right, HoHum?.....
» 9/09/2010 3:57:30 PM And will we do anything to stop the fundamentalist state-worship that is compulsorily taug.....
» 9/09/2010 3:55:34 PM There could be no better outcome for the Australian public than if the whole damn parliame.....
» 9/09/2010 12:13:03 PM > What is different about my offering my opinions and yourself? The difference is you.....
» 8/09/2010 4:21:21 PM But hang on Diver Dan. That assumes that religion has something sensible to say about ethi.....
» 8/09/2010 2:53:55 PM "Naked morality as such can only produce self deceit." And nakedness without mo.....
» 8/09/2010 12:34:56 PM Lemme see if I've got this straight. Christian belief has a different epistemology to natu.....
» 8/09/2010 12:12:27 PM Pelican Do you know what ‘begging the question’ means? That’s what you’re doing. Just be.....
» 5/09/2010 6:18:52 PM Pelican, you are only begging the question what should be decided by government, going rou.....
» 19/04/2010 3:11:16 PM Why not just ban everything that could possibly be unsafe? Instead of a principle of liber.....
» 15/04/2010 12:55:54 PM I maintain that boring is good. It means you're not frantic, stressed out, needing to kill.....
» 14/04/2010 4:42:56 PM Ho Hom That is true, but is not any reason in favour of an imperial presidency, which is w.....
» 13/04/2010 12:16:41 PM You are right, it is outrageous that someone can be detained involuntarily without a revie.....
» 13/04/2010 10:27:00 AM "Americans should thank God that George Washington was our first President, because n.....
» 13/04/2010 8:59:41 AM You are trying to set up a dichotomy between ‘rule by wealth’ and ‘treating people equally.....
» 12/04/2010 5:00:03 PM Also, the inequality between the state and any given citizen is far greater than the inequ.....
» 12/04/2010 4:51:26 PM It’s true that property isn't allocated equally, but neither are height, weight, intellige.....
» 7/04/2010 2:47:31 PM So do you think if the government had responsibility to produce all goods and services, th.....
» 7/04/2010 2:45:24 PM Interesting article on successful experiments in reducing traffic accidents by getting rid.....
» 7/04/2010 1:57:00 PM This would enable maximal accommodation of different conflicting interests, to the extent .....
» 7/04/2010 1:52:50 PM >>an example of the parties to a conflict over natural resource uses coming to an ag.....
» 2/04/2010 10:28:41 PM But appeal to “democracy” is an assertion about the general optimality of majority opinion.....
» 2/04/2010 10:27:38 PM rstuart >>@Jardine K. Jardine: What would be an example of the parties to a conflict.....
» 2/04/2010 4:22:34 PM >As I said in the post you are responding to, even if it is not within the law the odds.....
» 2/04/2010 2:50:45 AM Rstuart Your reasoning is circular. The question is, what reason is to think that “get.....
» 27/03/2010 7:20:10 PM But for the labia majora women wouldn't exist? How do you figure that?.....
» 27/03/2010 9:00:01 AM (cont.) “Oh.” She says. “Then… what about this second bunch?” “Well that’s nothing eithe.....
» 27/03/2010 8:58:27 AM Labium, labia. That reminds me of the one about the woman who was so dreadfully embarras.....
» 7/02/2010 8:58:50 PM Thinker2 To start with, the globe is not warming, it's cooling. Secondly, carbon dioxide i.....
» 7/02/2010 8:41:23 PM Belly You do understand, don't you, that the only way the poor can be provided for, is out.....
» 7/02/2010 1:48:07 PM Yes, Blind Freddie could see that the superannuation funds are going to become irresistibl.....
» 7/02/2010 1:12:27 PM It's obvious that the world is over-populated. There are too many people, aren't there? To.....
» 7/02/2010 12:34:59 PM Candide So the policy will not be enforced?.....
» 6/02/2010 10:03:56 AM "The cry of xenophobia has been the stock-in-trade of the long-successful campaign ag.....
» 17/01/2010 6:41:00 PM mikk Unfortunately your intellectual dishonesty doesn't make up for your stupidity. What's.....
» 15/01/2010 8:14:39 PM Why don't you try answering Justin's question: how could a government power to manage the .....
» 7/01/2010 9:15:44 PM Hey Grim, who's "we"? Who elected you the spokesman for the entire human race,.....
» 7/01/2010 1:26:15 AM It's not just the money that went into sending Rudd's 114-strong delegation to Copenhagen......
» 2/01/2010 9:53:03 PM Punkrose Good question. It's looking more and more like they have to secede from Australi.....
» 2/01/2010 4:08:49 PM "They did not nationalise industry." Yes they did - in substance but not in nam.....
» 1/01/2010 7:17:12 PM It raises two basic questions: 1. are there values over and above human values? If so, how.....
» 11/12/2009 7:27:49 PM It's easy to pay no income tax legally, contrary to popular opinion. You don't need a fanc.....
» 29/09/2009 10:02:46 AM Helen54 What Jefferson wrote was absolutely right. But that is an argument against central.....
» 29/09/2009 9:58:52 AM Ken McKay’s argument is that the greed of bankers, rather than low interest rates caused t.....
» 14/09/2009 12:22:45 PM The supposed purpose of members of parliament is to ‘represent’ the people. Parliament is .....
» 7/08/2009 7:38:18 PM If a majority voted for the same wrongs and abuses committed by the current regime, would .....
» 18/07/2009 10:38:47 AM Do you honestly think that the ‘financing of industry and trade’ requires a centralized go.....
» 18/07/2009 10:25:12 AM Pericles So collectivist economic planning works does it? And the GFC has nothing to do .....
» 16/07/2009 7:38:40 PM From such axioms, or from what can logically be deduced from them, the Austrian school has.....
» 16/07/2009 7:30:55 PM A good and interesting article; and pay no heed to the sniveling of rude and ignorant moro.....
» 16/07/2009 5:39:11 PM Well said Bruce. Frank Economic calculation comprehends everything exchanged against mone.....
» 12/07/2009 6:30:48 PM humans being imperfect, it would never be effectual or permitted. Yet shoes and socks and .....
» 12/07/2009 6:23:20 PM Baygon, the individual consumer only needs to know whether he is ready willing and able to.....
» 11/07/2009 11:09:53 PM Well said Pericles. None of the interventionists has said how having a government printi.....
» 11/07/2009 1:56:58 PM So I ask any of the interventionists to explain honestly and directly on point: how is any.....
» 11/07/2009 1:34:53 PM What none of the interventionists will ever explain is how, and from where, government is .....
» 5/07/2009 6:09:57 PM The collectivist error is collectivism: to look at society's income, as it were, from a Go.....
» 5/07/2009 5:54:08 PM Grim Let’s assume it comes down to what you or I think others deserve. And let’s assume th.....
» 4/07/2009 10:45:37 PM Capitalists, corporate executives, and shareholders are all unconditionally subject to the.....
» 4/07/2009 10:38:42 PM Pelican Clearly perfection is not an option either way, as humans are imperfect. Yes the.....
» 4/07/2009 5:21:11 AM In short, the idea is bad in principle and bad in practice. “People rarely get to own pr.....
» 4/07/2009 4:50:54 AM Ozbib “[I]t does not follow that people are entitled to do whatever they wish, whatever th.....
» 3/07/2009 8:57:18 PM We get one twenty-millionth of a say once every three years on whether to sack the governm.....
» 3/07/2009 8:21:56 PM Cinders If the passionate activists owned the lands that the forests were on, would they .....
» 2/07/2009 7:53:27 PM "The US should lead an international coalition to pressure Tehran to unclench its fis.....
» 30/06/2009 10:09:32 PM Ozbib An appeal to ‘most philosophers’ is a) an appeal to absent authority, and b) majori.....
» 26/06/2009 11:23:55 PM 'Society' is not a decision-making entity. The reason that child care and workplaces do no.....
» 26/06/2009 11:08:10 PM runner You haven't heard of it: so what? Is the test of whether something has happened t.....
» 25/06/2009 7:08:31 PM "Though all actions of government are a form of manipulation this statement is far to.....
» 14/06/2009 10:30:13 PM But that is an argument *against* a policy response, not in favour of it. I’m consistent o.....
» 14/06/2009 6:22:33 PM Eclipse now The mere fact that you don’t like something does not provide a justification f.....
» 13/06/2009 9:00:48 PM TLTR That’s not the issue, which is, that no-one has a right to speak for values over and .....
» 5/04/2009 6:31:20 PM "The deregulated currency market is a failure" Reality check: the currency mark.....
» 3/04/2009 9:45:40 PM Kulu Has it ever occurred to you that people might not like freezing and starving in the d.....
» 3/04/2009 9:14:33 PM Very interesting article and comments. Rudd is a clown, no doubt about it. Perhaps we sh.....
» 3/04/2009 8:56:17 PM Interesting and well-written article. However I think by concentrating on Obama's person.....
» 3/04/2009 8:33:19 PM Shann Interesting idea that kilowatt hours would replace gold as money in the unhampered .....
» 28/03/2009 11:03:50 AM "I am no Economist but it simply amazes me that the monolithic US expenditure on war .....
» 28/03/2009 10:53:27 AM Joe The problem with that analogy is that there is no reason to trust the driver who got i.....
» 27/03/2009 11:58:07 PM Rowen "proper regulation of the markets is the medium term challenge for governments,.....
» 27/03/2009 11:25:09 PM "In a modern monetary economy like the US (and Australia), sovereign - federal- gover.....
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