Jabanga

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by Jabanga 9y ago
Are children capable of providing informed consent for the purposes of the law? That's questionable, so it's questionable if all child labour prohibitions infringe upon individual liberty. But laws against prostitution and low wag
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by Jabanga 9y ago
The laws in question are tyrannical infringements of personal liberty. You don't have a right to prohibit people from trading a service for money.
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The laws Uber is accused of facilitating the violation of are themselves tyrannical abridgements of personal liberty. The entire exercise, from the local laws to punish Uber drivers, to the DOJ's prosecution of Uber for helping its dri
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by Jabanga 10y ago
The Norseman had one small colony that was attacked by people already inhabiting North America. They settled the Eastern tip of Canada then departed. These people, if they existed, would have colonized all the way from Western Alaska to Cal
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by Jabanga 10y ago
There's actually never been any proof provided that Iran had a nuclear weapons program. The evidence available says that Iran might have had a weapons program before 2003. This is according to the IAEA. The US National Intelligence E
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by Jabanga 10y ago
I've seen plenty of minds changed in discussions with libertarians. But I agree that the odds that any one debate will lead to a consensus being reached are very low. Debates where one side insists on a politically incorrect position a
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by Jabanga 10y ago
I see advocating force as more similar to the definition of sociopathic behaviour. But I also don't think arguing over which belief is more or less sociopathic is constructive.
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I don't think that's a constructive attitude to have. It's better to have a mind that is at least open enough to hear the other person out, and debate them. You've basically dehumanized a large section of the population
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by Jabanga 10y ago
1. You wrote in your previous comment: " A study suggesting that increased access to education, or welfare in general, increases the birth rate among the poor?" 2. The fact that an increasing number of people are having children o
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The standard of living of the world's poor is improving faster than ever. I don't see cause to be concerned about a violent revolution. As for the greater good justification: given income redistribution reduces how much wealth is
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by Jabanga 10y ago
My position is not that "taxation is theft" though. I do oppose certain kinds of taxation, because of the rights that I believe we have. I thought the way I addressed the parent comment was much more on-topic than the response you
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by Jabanga 10y ago
If you're alleging a particular fortune traces its roots to an illegitimate acquisition, then prove it in a court of law, in front of a jury of your peers. Your statement is a sweeping generalization, and prejudicial indictment, and th
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by Jabanga 10y ago
>But you don't ask that when they extract peoples' money on the upswing. I always ask that. >You want scientific and fair? We the people should own the proceeds from public lands. The proceeds of public land is not sufficien
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by Jabanga 10y ago
It's not slavery when the debt is assumed with informed consent. We currently force people to pay taxes, and that is vastly less consensual than a student loan. If being compelled to pay a student loan that you chose to take on is slav
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That's frighteningly true.
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I certainly have evidence that suggests welfare leads to people having children when they're in poorer financial circumstances: https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Gl5Xvza-bmsC&oi=f... The rise of th
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by Jabanga 10y ago
>This is a matter of "How does the government serve the citizenry". By taking other people's income? I don't think that's fair. >Because people who are rich did not do so themselves in a little bubble. Their s
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Evolution is a well understood phenomenon. It's reasonable to extrapolate its long term effect, especially when very high levels of government spending on education is such a recent phenomenon.
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From a quick reading, it seems like the Office of Education was a small statistics gathering department with a very limited budget and role. The redistributive aspect of government education spending has increased substantially over the las
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by Jabanga 10y ago
I'm saying that if funding primary education produces societal returns, that must mean the net increase in earning potential exceeds the cost of the education, and therefore it would be profitable to issue student loans to the poor par
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by Jabanga 10y ago
Centralising spending in the hands of a monopoly inevitably leads to rent-seeking behavior, like the rise of teachers unions and legislation like collective bargaining acts. I think the net level of support people can expect their children
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by Jabanga 10y ago
You're also welcome to not respond to me if my views bother you. I'm simply expressing my viewpoint. There is nothing in the Constitution about social welfare programs to provide equality of opportunity. It's all about the &q
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It depends what their share is.
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I'm expressing my views. It's not constructive to tell people with minority viewpoints to stop expressing them. I did nothing more than what the parent comment did. I also don't think we're in a position to judge the ful
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by Jabanga 10y ago
It is a component of child-rearing. Forcing people to pay for the education of other people is redistributive. If it's truly an investment, we could let the student loan market handle it, since the returns (in increased income) exceed
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by Jabanga 10y ago
That's a great ideal to strive toward, but I don't see the case for forcing everyone to adopt that ideal.
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I find that to be an odd definition of society. I think you mean government. And I don't believe redistribution from effective producers of economic resources to less effective producers is societally beneficial.
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The federal department of education was only created in 1980. All government spending on education, as a percentage of GDP, was a tiny fraction of what it is today. And the revenue for the education spending was weighted far more towards lo
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They don't deserve to take someone else's money by force, in order to pay for those things. I don't think opposing forced income redistribution puts me on the side of history.
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We could provide people with the market means to provide student loans to the parents of promising children. Then the market will take care of it, without any compulsion, and far more effectively than a nondiscriminating blanket redistribut

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