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This usage of the word libertarian, like anarchism as a description of left-wing philosophy pre-dates the use of those terms to describe volunantarism. This is why I always describe myself as a voluntarist rather than a libertarian.

Hey this is me reaching out to the world beyond FDR to raise their expectations in relationships, I'd be happy for some listener feedback http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q02s0yCVmGw&google_comment_id=z13vurkxupikx142d23dcrfyoqauwllzp04&google_view_type#gpluscomments

"I guess I just don't have as much faith in humanity as you" " Let's say that all food producers in the world work together, and decide to not sell food to anyone unless they decide to give the producers all their present and future wealth; how would the market solve this?"

how do you stop people from growing food on their own land? or like this besides, when government was in charge of food production there was famine. Millions of people died.

he is on the liberal side of the political spectrum but is evidence-based on what he prescribes, let me see on "exams" "Do Tests Help Students Learn, or Was a New Study Misreported?" 1/28/11 your choice form these: "The Case Against Grades," Educational Leadership, November 2011 "Poor Teaching for Poor Children...in the Name of Reform," Education Week, April 27, 2011 "'Well, Duh!': 10 Obvious Truths That We Shouldn't Be Ignoring," American School Board Journal, April 2011 "How to Create Nonreaders," English Journal, Fall 2010 "The Folly of Merit Pay," Education Week, September 17, 2003 "Standardized Testing: Separating Wheat Children from Chaff Children," 2002 "Progressive Education," Independent School, Spring 2008 "Rethinking Homework," Principal, January-February 2007 "Five Reasons to Stop Saying 'Good Job!'", Young Children, September 2001 "What to Look for in a Classroom," Educational Leadership, September 1996 "Homework: New Research Suggests It May Be an Unnecessary Evil" 11/26/12 "What Do Kids Really Learn from Failure?" 10/3/12 "What Makes a Terrific Parent?" 4/23/12 "Five Not-So-Obvious Propositions About Play," 11/17/11 "Whoever Said There's No Such Thing as a Stupid Question Never Looked Carefully at a Standardized Test," 9/16/11 "What We Don't Know About Our Students - And Why," 9/7/11 "Teaching Strategies That Work! (Just Don't Ask 'Work to Do What?')," 8/10/11 "Why Are Some People Always Late? And Other Human Puzzles," 7/25/11 "How to Write an Article About Current Parenting Styles," 6/30/11 "What Parents Aren't Asked in School Surveys - And Why," 5/23/11 "Studies Support Rewards/Homework/Traditional Teaching. Or Do They?" 3/31/11 "'But I Need to Assign Homework! Look at All I Have to Cover!'" 3/3/11 "STEM Sell: Do Math & Science Matter More Than Other Subjects?" 2/16/11 "Remember When We Had High Standards? Neither Do I," 12/10/10 "'Ready to Learn' = Easier to Educate," 11/18/10 "Operation Discourage Bright People from Wanting to Teach," 11/1/10 "How to Sell Conservatism: Lesson 1 -- Pretend You're a Reformer," 10/20/10 "School Would Be Great If It Weren't for the Damn Kids," 9/17/10 "'Value-Added' Teacher Evaluation & Other School Reform Absurdities," 9/9/10 "Competitiveness vs. Excellence: The Education Crisis That Isn't," 8/9/10

um, yes, it's called "circumcision"

an exam is just a snapshot of how someone performs on a certain task at a certain time there is so much luck invovled in the selection of questions there is also no way of measuring how much of it the person forgets the moment they leave the room exams are a poor means of assessment compared to portfolio work, practical assessments (making a shoe is the exam, as you put it), or even research assignment "essays" we only have exams in education because we have had exams and people tend to assume that the way things have been done are the way they should be done If you want some out-of-the-box thinking when in comes to education check out Alfie Kohn - there are some great articles on his website on things like grades, homework, standardized testing, and the way students are taught in schools

yes get lots of people to ask you questions so you know areas of interest to cover

I can't find it in me to harbour any resentment in me towards Tony Benn. There is plenty I disagree with him on, particularly his romantic love of big government but I see him as a very principled man who had strong values and stuck by them even when they made him exceedingly unpopular in latter years he championed every anti-war cause going, I think he had integrity perhaps the wrong kind

Well, first of all states have killed up to 500 million of their own people in the last century + war - so I would say States are an altar of permanent human sacrifice If that happens even once it is very easy to prevent from happening again. All you do is build preventative measures into their insurance contracts, maybe certain individuals will be made liable and they have signed a contract saying they can be arrested, fined, made to make restitution, even punished, if they renege on the deal. You could agree for them to be electronically tagged in case they fled Or you could have a third party take control of a certain amount of funds and have the power to extract that 500mil or whatever from their bank account for contract violations or basically anything you can think of the broker will dream up something that is fullproof it will optimize over time with trial and error its really quite simple once you get the principle down one person finds one kind of contract that seems to work, and then other people keep on besting it until there is a system in place which is continually self-optimizing which is the opposite of government which puts a system in place that kind of sits there like a rock that the river tries to run round but always somehow finds a way no matter how you carve it

If you want to argue for the state I think choosing education is one of the worst ways you could possibly do it why don't you go to Alfie Kohn's website and see some of his articles since he is a leading expert on education reform and highly empirical in his approach you will basically see that everything that schools do is the opposite of what a good school would do from the way they treat children to using grades to homework at the elementary school level to punishments and rewards to "tougher standards" and standardized tests there is hardly a thing schools do that are useful for the development of a young minds asides from teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, and then they even do that poorly

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Hey, don't argue with me, argue with the studies I really don't see what a written exam has to do with ones ability to perform as a doctor I would much rather the doctorr as assessed by means other than a written exam such as, uh, I don't know, his ability to perform as a doctor at the end you conflate experience with doing surgery with doing exams which is kind of like saying "would you rather go to shoe-maker who had made lots of shoes and done exams, or a someone who had never made and shoes and also hadn't done any exams." Well, the first guy obviously, but not because he had done exams, but because he was good at making shoes.

government schools don't even teach critical thinking, logic or even how to construct an argument and the literacy rate in the US is significantly lower than before mandatory education was instituted, when it was 96% for whites and 80% for blacks

"Don't want to disagree with you on your timeline. The WHO promotes circumcision as a means of reducing the rate of HIV infection in men. Three randomised trials in Africa were stopped on ethical grounds, because the infection rate in the uncircumcised group was so much higher than in the circumcised group. Injections and dental treatment also cause distress to children, but few would argue delaying until adulthood. Maybe there is a discussion to be had on parental choice and cultural practice, but the science clearly disagrees [with opposing circumcision on the grounds it prevents HIV and Aids]. HIV and AIDS is a serious blight in much of the world. I think we should all be careful that we are disseminating accurate data. One of my best friends is statistical epidemiologist specialising in the subject, and I have a background in international development, so it's a subject I follow."

Is this true? Also has the claim that circumcision prevents aids been debunked? I am really annoyed by someone saying this

it is a misconception that the fundamental ingredient of the free market is commerce it's actually simply the choice to engage in commerce or not

that is a good point, and I know there were some approaches discussed thanks for bringing it to the forefront of my attention I will try to express feelings if I get in that situation again I also thought the "I hope we can come back to it at a later date" suggestion was good as well

I see what you are saying that is quite a take - I will have to process

ok people thank you for your responses and insights into why people say they want to agree to disagree, can we now move from interpreting here and start with proposals on how to deal with residual feelings of discomfort I know you are all really smart and have a great insight into the human condition but I need help with my original question I already understand that when the person says they are wanting to agree to disagree it is (most likely) because they are emotionally invested in their position and don't want to change it based on reason and evidence, or (very rarely) because they think you yourself are beyond reasoning with, and sometimes because they are tired of talking about the subject Whatever it is the question was about dealing with emotions, not about what motivates people to say that

when you met Alex Jones, what did you find him like off the air? How was your experience of him

Those are the last things I would put something as dangerous as a state in charge of.

I find it very frustrating when people say "agree to disagree" I can agree to disagree over preferences like ice-cream vs. chocolate, or Queen vs. Billy Joel but I can't agree to disagree over matter of fact I can agree that one of us is wrong and someone does not want to continue the investigation of which one it is But since presumably the best thing to do it walk away when someone says agree to disagree how do you resolve the residual feelings of discomfort stemming from their being no resolution one way or the other you can "just know that you are right" but I still feel discomfort in trying to do that I don't know how to process the emotion efficiently