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by bjl 9y ago
Why shouldn't we insult myopic, damaging worldviews like the OP's?
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by bjl 9y ago
Except that both the USSR and China are capitalist in the Marxist sense.
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by bjl 9y ago
'Powerful' is a weird way to describe a selfie app.
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by bjl 9y ago
Its telling that you don't see a difference. And An-Caps never seem to understand why nobody takes them seriously.
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by bjl 9y ago
I'd rather a democratically elected state than a cabal of wealthy warlords.
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by bjl 9y ago
Nah people that think gays shouldn't marry should have the non-bigoted views forced upon them.
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by bjl 9y ago
> The principal of non-aggression means no one would be allowed to enslave or suppress anyone else. Except, of course, the wealthy.
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by bjl 9y ago
Equating theft with rape and murder is just one of the reasons rational people ignore right-libertarianism.
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by bjl 9y ago
All I can say is that I'm glad the vast majority of academia, and the population in general, think your position is indefensible.
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by bjl 9y ago
Because, under your 'utopia', we never would have had the civil rights movement. Or woman's suffrage. Or gay marriage.
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by bjl 9y ago
Or, instead of depending on utopic ideals and discredited economic theories, we can just make people buy liability insurance if they want to drive a car.
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by bjl 9y ago
Good thing the paradox of tolerance has been solved for over a century! Now if only we could get the message out to people like you that seem to delight in ignoring centuries of philosophical discussion on this topic.
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by bjl 9y ago
>which they wouldn't if government stopped intervening. That's a very strong assumption, and I see no reason to believe its true.
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by bjl 9y ago
OK, so use any other example. What if Florida decides to roll back gay marriage? What if Alabama rescinds the Civil Rights Act? Are those who can't afford to move supposed to just deal with it?
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by bjl 9y ago
But what about the millions of people with poor family/friends? Are they supposed to just roll over and die if they get sick? And don't say 'but charity', we already know charity is massively insufficient.
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by bjl 9y ago
They run over a pedestrian without insurance, now that pedestrian has no way to pay for their medical care.
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by bjl 9y ago
> How do you justify the healthy paying for the unhealthy? Because we live in a society, and in a society people help one another.
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by bjl 9y ago
Because a lot of people (most, even) don't have the resources required to just up and move cities, let alone states. Your 'solution' would be massively regressive - what if Texas decides to rescind Medicaid? Are those people
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by bjl 9y ago
You can certainly pick a random real number from the unit interval.
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by bjl 9y ago
As long as Kalinick is CEO they haven't done enough.
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by bjl 9y ago
Are you seriously comparing the murder of millions of Jews to a multinational corporation ignoring taxi regulations? Uber fanboys have lost their minds.
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by bjl 9y ago
SpaceX and Tesla both have a long history of extremely shady labor practices.
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by bjl 9y ago
You don't see how a multinational corporation running roughshod over a democratically elected government is a bad thing?
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by bjl 9y ago
If they really believed that then they should have fought those laws in the political arena rather than just ignoring them.
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by bjl 9y ago
So Greyball was fake? How about their Hell program? Or the fact that one of their executives illegally acquired a rape victims medical reports and circulated them around the office? Uber has continuously demonstrated a total disregard for b
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by bjl 9y ago
I'd take the Cessna every time.
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by bjl 9y ago
Right, because delivering expensive drinks to lazy yuppies is the most important thing in the world.
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>A drone flying over your property doesn't harm you at all. Until it falls on your head. Not to mention the gross privacy violations that this allows.
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by bjl 9y ago
There's a big difference between flying 1000 ft above private property in a properly licensed aircraft and flying 50 ft above.
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by bjl 9y ago
How would it kill them? Getting permission of property owners is a hindrance, sure, but I'm not willing to give up privacy rights for the privilege of flying drones wherever I want. Its no different than hunting, where you already have

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