I NEVER do anything during the morning. Then the ONE day that I schedule an important meeting for 10am, I get an invite to a game presentation for the same day and time, to which I CAN’T FUCKING GO.
FUCK FUCK COCK SHIT BALLS
Game presentation?
I started working as a tech journalist a couple weeks ago and they were sending me to cover the launch of Disney Infinity 2 in Argentina. But I won’t be able to go.
@han: I seem to be in the mood for discussion, so: what are your reasons for disagreeing with democratic regulation and solidarity? 
Think about this scientifically. Cooperation has the potential of being more efficient than competition. Resources lost by advertising, and pressing on the shoulders of those next to you to lift yourself to the top, are wasted. When a group of individuals reach this conclusion, they realize that working on behalf of the whole (along with the others) is better for themselves than being selfish. It’s the social contract applied to economy-- true capitalists or libertarians should never tip at restaurants … the only reason tips are left is because of anarcho-communist tendencies in everyday people.
On a smaller scale, it is easier to synchronize these feelings… communes, nuclear families, and sometimes extended families will express great cooperation. Business partners accomplish much, but they would accomplish more if they didn’t need to worry about being stabbed in the back or cheated… the prisoner’s dilemma.
fff my tooth feels like its got a cavity maybe
I was playing reaction ball with some people today, and in the midst of a sweet block on my part, someone ran into me as I was midflight. While the impact didn’t hurt, my knee twisted strangely and I felt and heard a loud pop that made my leg go numb for a few seconds, making it difficult to walk for a minute or so. Now, it’s hot and swollen, and I can barely put weight on it.
So you sprained it or something? Go to the energency room if you’re worried.
i got knocked off my bike by a car like a month or so ago and only like in the last week does my shoulder not hurt a bunch when i move it a certain way. did not visit a doctor lol but it seems to have worked out ok
I’ve been looking at it for like 30 minutes and I think I just strained a tendon a little, maybe sprained it. Vicodin relived the pain, since I still had some, and I’m icing it haha I don’t think I’ll go yet. If I can’t walk tomorrow I’ll go.
Sorry guys, my internet connection had gone down for a while.
Essentially, my reasoning for libertarianism is that people should be allowed to do whatever fucked up or great thing they want to do, provide it doesn’t infringe on the established rights of others. Cooperation is great, problem is, as people, we haven’t reached the point where we can put our differences, personal desires, etc aside to deal with bigger issues. At some point, some dumbfuck will come around and take advantage of a fully cooperative society.
Now, a libertarian society does not condone “altruistic” tendencies. In fact, we welcome it. The basis of libertarianism is, after all, voluntary exchange. In a libertarian society, there will be charity groups, much like today, with many privately run non-profit charities. People donate without the input of government right now, so in a libertarian society, it’s not as if all people suddenly become self-absorbed assholes waiting on the next paycheck. The absence of government doesn’t mean that we don’t still feel compassion or sympathy. The point is that people have choice, without the forceful hand of the government (which relies on, lets be honest, the threat of force to achieve means) to dictate what you should or should not do.
Another reason why I’m a libertarian is because I don’t support strong government. Government’s aim is to pass laws, and uses the threat of force to enforce the law. When law surpasses the mere protection of natural rights (don’t kill, steal property, vandalize etc), then it’s either the enforcement of 1. morals or 2. laws that results in personal gain. For the first, morality is subjective, and to enforce a fundamentally subjective idea is the direct violation of someone’s own morality (If your morality is killing people, then that doesn’t apply, as your morality is in direct violation of someone’s natural right). For number 2, it’s using a undisputed position of power for personal motivations, and as we see from countless different points in history, that has ended very poorly.
And I am a fairly avid follower of economics. The problem with a lot of government intervention is, of course, the misallocation of resources. For example the lauded over Scandinavian Health care system is adored by people in the United States. But the reality is, when you phone into the hospital, it often takes months to half a year to get an x-ray, and for people that have serious diseases like cancer, that can mean the difference between life or death. And doctors are often not paid enough in these countries to make up the time spent studying medicine, especially counting the ludicrous 50% tax rates on income. Government just really hasn’t helped in the allocation of health care. And when you look at the numbers for health in the US, the stats are only bad due to cultural habits (like the culture of fast food and a blatant disregard for health in general), and actual figures for treatable and serious diseases are amongst the highest in the world. For a country of 300 million people, that’s impressive. And the US is in this strange limbo zone in medical care where it’s partially private but has many traces of government intervention. Some people call for more government intervention, but I personally think that less government intervention would result in an overall better health care system.
And, to be truthful, I’m not a huge fan of democracy. Sure, it’s great to have democratically leaders, and democratically elected representatives to bring state matters to the attention to the nation and all that jazz. But what democracies usually end up being is a dictatorship of the majority. Especially considering in the US, that split is pretty near 50 50, that means that at one point, 50% of the population is being ruled with the other 50%. And this is with the numerous checks and balances littered in the system. Democracies let the majority’s voice be heard, but the minority, no matter how large, is left in the cold to be pushed around, which I assume many would agree with me to be less than ideal. Libertarians don’t believe in a government, even with the support of the masses, to oppress a minority for thinking different.
That being said, I’m a libertarian, not an anarcho-capitalist. I believe that government, no matter that it’s an evil, is a necessary one. People who are less capable of defending one’s rights should not be at the mercy of his fellow citizens, as that just ends up descending to a government composed of the most ruthless and physically powerful.
This is why I’m a libertarian. I occasionally stray from libertarian principles (I’m an advocate of a voucher system of education rather than a full on privatization, and I do support NASA, even though private companies seem to be taking the initiative right now when it comes to space exploration), but I do value my natural rights over the veneer of security which the government provides.
Guys, it might be best to move it over to the On Philosophy, Religion, and Genocide thread, it’s what it was made for.
@Han I’d rather respond there, so I’ll do that.
Fuck Ken Penders.
Fuckin’ pandas.
haha, with a kiwi accent
For the past few days I’ve been feeling really awful. I keep coughing up this nasty phlegm of some sort, and I’m almost constantly coughing, so much that my throat is sore. I can only hope I get better by tomorrow, because we’re going to Las Vegas and I’d really hate to be sick during the trip.
just fuck a whore while you’re there and the gonorrhoea will kill off everything else
you’ll still have gonorrhoea though
Dr. Acade365 is here for all forumers medical needs.
insert badly executed and unfunny april fools joke here
Mission accomplished.