I just fresh signed up with this site and happen to currently be in a discussion with a guy at work who i will call “Mark”. I sent him an email containing Lew Rockwell’s article on where he talks about the broken window fallacy. http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/broken-window.html The following i…

No one is really a complete lost cause. I can still do this. I managed to introduce his son to libertarianism and he warmed up to it. Maybe i should buy him a book. Any suggestions on the best one for me to get Mark?

Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt. It can be found in pdf online for free.

In the way that gravity is a concept? Sure. The debt ceiling has no purpose, so that sentence doesn’t matter. So they offer bonds. Who buys them? The federal reserve does, by using money that it creates out of thin air. Thus the money supply is expanded, causing inflation. Hmm, yes. They either…

Well yeah, I mean anyone who doesn’t have some kind of mental disability can learn something…my point was it all depends on how much time you’re willing to dedicate and how much you’re willing to put up with. There’s opportunity costs to everything, and like I said, if your goal was to simply educa…

Perhaps I am a bit too excited about this, but this might help: The Forgotten Depression of 1920

He doesn’t want to be shown up by you. Why? shrugs shoulders Age, gender roles, education, etc. As John James said suggested, you gotta figure out what your goal is with him. I would have pointed out all of the fallacies at the beginning, which probably would have frustrated him to the point of qu…

Hm, Muffin might be on to something. Perhaps if you save your strongest arguments for somewhere in the middle, they will be more convinving. Because usually, debates go like this: Side 1_________________ |___________ Side 2 Strong argument A ________| Strong counter B. Argument C Strong counter D…

Took the advice with moving on to easier coins. Great advice. I flawlessly got a few people today that will be extremely valuable to have on our side. I realized a way to talk to co-workers about it without sounding like your pushing it on them. I do this by creating a situation where they bring it …

That’s awesome. It’s quite an interesting situation where you’re commuting with people you know every day like that. That’s a very unique opportunity of a captive audience you have there. Great to see you’re able to take advantage of it. The book thing is a classic strategy. Never gets old. (Tha…

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John_James October 25, 2011, 9:29pm 63

Yeah, I’d say you are. If I’d have known you weren’t aware I’d have informed you a long time ago.

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