LOL =]
Before rushing into to provide your critique, try reading.
I’ve read and I’m not impressed.
Given your answer, you misread. Now, go back and give it another read.
How about you tell me “how I misread.” I’m still not convinced that Low IQ[I wonder how he measures it] equals higher crimes. All of his positions are problems caused by “government.”
Should I go as far as quoting Bastiat to destroy his Low IQ correlates to higher crimes?
Government polict affects everybody, so that doesn’t help you. IQ on the other hand…
I wonder. Are you playing dumb…or are you really…
IQ,IQ,IQ. What is IQ? I’ll reiterate, how is IQ measured? Lets just say that eventuall you found out how government “rapes” everyone. Being more intelligent is not going to impede the process of reaching you.
Not at all. In determining causation, correlation is an important factor, though not an exclusive one.
Check his IQ if you want an objective answer.
It’s a factor, and not necessarily an important one. After all, there is the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
Actually scratch that. Comming from owning a business and property in an already leftist union rust belt town, that went more leftist every year running the business and making personal choices that would benefit me became more limited every year. (this came from the 6 yrs of me owning a small business) To the point where 4 months ago I actually move and sell off whatever assets I had and go to college. Leftist may not have the extreme thought process most libertarians attribute to them, but the consequences of their actions still leaves a bad leftist taste in my mouth.
Also, one reason why I find libertarianism so useful is the fact that it ,so far, has been the best way to battle most leftists on their own grounds.
The ability to manipulate abstract concepts and follow a chain of reasoning to a logically supported conclusion, among other things. A college degree is basically a four-year IQ test that convinces employers you can accomplish tasks of a certain level of complexity.
Not everybody is on welfare or being locked up for drug law violations. Nor does everybody require government action to get them a job or college admittance. Intelligence is an important factor in life, though admittedly not the only one.
How does a specialized field “correlate” to the ability of adaptability or survival? It’s the same as saying A+B=C, B+C=A. You could keep your empirical views.
And who supports welfare? Why do we have drug laws?
Hmm. . . this thread started with a Bastiat quote. Did you read all of Bastiat’s books?
Property is a positive liberty, insofar as you can interfere with people who attempt to take it from you or use it against your will. It is the right to preempt some defined set of ‘interferers’. I must point out again that there is no supra-human bond between a person and what are deemed is ‘possessions’. Whatever standards we use, they are our standards - we’re inventing, not finding, things.
Negative liberty leads to ridiculous conclusions. Be free from lies, from social restrictions, free from arbitrary opinions of your culture, free from addiction etc.
Freedom is vacuous. It can mean everything or nothing at all, it’s just an ideological cloak for other values that are actually being promoted.
Positive freedom is also more obviously valuable than negative liberty. To be free from things is nothing, to be free to do things - that is power. And to do anything, one must have power.
fail.
And those values are ?
Of course to be free to do anything is powerful. I mean you can kill and rape anybody cause laws are a mere convention of human reason. And morality isn’t going to self-restrain the person from committing these acts cause morality doesn’t exist either. It’s all a fabrication of our fantasies these laws and morals. Silly humans. (sarcasm intended)
The weakness of libertarianism is the same weakness that quantum mechanics shares: it’s counterintuitive. What I mean by that is the fact that one has to consider more than just static quantities when considering the basics of libertarianism. In this case, one also has to consider time and also consider that each person isn’t some static quantity either (physically and mentally).
It’s a similar problem when trying to teach the basics of QM to people without getting too technical, thus it requires an approach that bests leverages a person’s ability to see time through other processes. And that is where it becomes important to show people the whole idea of libertarianism, from whatever other process related to time that the person can conceive. Any other “frontal attack” on the aspects of teaching libertarianism to non-libertarians I think is doomed to fail just on the counterintuitive quality alone.
Maybe you could share an example of, “…an approach that bests leverages a person’s ability to see time through other processes… from whatever other process related to time that the person can conceive.” Are you talking about a history lesson?