tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post9126136225003816594..comments2023-09-24T08:04:06.909-04:00Comments on FSK's Guide to Reality: Why Are People So Hostile to the Truth?FSKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-90250704861784101312012-02-06T19:23:19.271-05:002012-02-06T19:23:19.271-05:00two words. power vaccum. i understand the state is...two words. power vaccum. i understand the state is a charade, but its a charade i prefer over other charades. corruption exists everwhere, why would it not exist in government. <br /><br />watch robocop. i am serious, watch robocop and think about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-73341819133749799212009-10-07T18:47:46.313-04:002009-10-07T18:47:46.313-04:00Good article. I have to say I've become so tir...Good article. I have to say I've become so tired of debating these kinds of people that I've actually come to the point of ignoring them whereas I would respond before (such as recently on youtube).<br /><br />It's always same old crap. When they ask you a question it's always loaded, always asked in a manner which already presumes knowledge of an answer and just waits for you to answer so they can engage you in an utterly endless and ultimately unproductive debate.<br /><br />It has made me want to just bow out and not engage as much, but the problem is that as long as you write articles promoting voluntaryism, such same old questions will keep coming. How do you answer properly without engaging in a yet another fruitless debate that wont go anywhere?<br /><br />It makes me want to sometimes just start doing something else.. maybe start writing science fiction modeling a future world where voluntaryism is accepted. This way at least I get to have a creative license nobody can question while still demonstrating my points in a way they could be heard.. I don't know..memenodehttp://doubleplushuman.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-91376604863901037262009-10-05T06:10:19.765-04:002009-10-05T06:10:19.765-04:00Agreed! The truths I get attacked on when in dialo...Agreed! The truths I get attacked on when in dialogue are:<br /><br />1) Defining WEALTH. That is something that can only be created by doing work on natural resources. (land etc)<br /><br />2) Who owns that WEALTH: Its rightful owner is the one who has done the work. It is the only property you can justly own.<br /><br />The objections come because they want to break these natural laws due to the free lunches monoploy right that will deliver<br /><br />They objectve with hostility because they either want to preserve these monoploy rights or aspire to acquire themRobin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04648517992918303543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-11285151363870739732009-10-05T05:20:14.562-04:002009-10-05T05:20:14.562-04:00Anonymous said...
Without a government, how d...<i>Anonymous said...<br /><br /> Without a government, how do you handle market failures, they happen all the time in the real world, people love to create huge negative externalities for everyone else if they only bear a tiny fraction of the cost and reap a large amount of benefit, you can see it every day, even with a government, it will just get a whole lot worse. Think food safety in China.</i><br /><br />And how did the government *PREVENT* food safety in China? You contradict your own argument and are entirely pro-State trolling. Go away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-78769769013508454012009-10-04T16:35:57.211-04:002009-10-04T16:35:57.211-04:00Anonymous said...
"Without a government, how...Anonymous said... <br />"Without a government, how do you handle market failures, they happen all the time in the real world, people love to create huge negative externalities for everyone else if they only bear a tiny fraction of the cost and reap a large amount of benefit, you can see it every day, even with a government, it will just get a whole lot worse. Think food safety in China."<br /><br /><br />Thats pro-state trolling as FSK would say. Without a government there is less incentive to be deceptive. If a particular company was deceptive and engaged in unsustainable business practices then the penalty would be failure.<br />In our statist system now there is more incentive to screw people over because if your business fails because of an unsound business model then the government is likely to bail you and your victims out! The credit bubble would never have been created without help from the Fed because investors using real savings instead of printed fiat money would never dream of risking their capital on thinks like sub-prime mortgages!theftthroughinflationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04033030175673408941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-2842205698429031942009-10-04T15:48:49.410-04:002009-10-04T15:48:49.410-04:00One thing that must be understood about people'...One thing that must be understood about people's unwavering support of govt is that many people have no idea that society can do something without govt doing it. Without govt programs, people wouldn't be able to get health care, without govt regulations, businesses would run the world and enslave us, without any govt at all, the would fall into complete chaos. I'm a f*cking minarchist, but I don't believe that society would fall into complete chaos if we didn't have a few rulers (this assuming there was an organized effort on part of the citizenry to decrease govt's influence and eventually make govt obsolete). <br /><br />But people who believe there would be a void of chaos and suffering therefore believe govt must exist to legitimately take from some to provide for others and restrict some freedoms to protect freedom.<br /><br /> "Without Medicare, elderly people couldn't afford health care, therefore we must have taxes to pay to help poor people" for one example. The idea of making individuals responsible to helping and working with each other voluntarily to get what one needs is scary and seen as a lack of order. I've seen people literally get angry at the idea of someone who's poor having to ask someone who has more for help...but instead support the govt simply forcibly taking for those with more. <br /><br />In short...Statists don't see society having order without layers upon layers of laws dictating such order.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12551505502580310385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-45182221584352557122009-10-04T14:35:57.572-04:002009-10-04T14:35:57.572-04:00Without a government, how do you handle market fai...Without a government, how do you handle market failures, they happen all the time in the real world, people love to create huge negative externalities for everyone else if they only bear a tiny fraction of the cost and reap a large amount of benefit, you can see it every day, even with a government, it will just get a whole lot worse. Think food safety in China.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com