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It's funny and sad that it has to be Asians in white countries who bring light to this issue and take a stand http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/18/rejected-asian-students-sue-harvard-over-admissions-that-favor-other-minorities.html

a lot of the alt-Right in my observation tend to wrongly associate things like psychotherapy and peaceful parenting with Leftism, and "pussification" of Western Culture. That and Anarchism distinguishes Stef from them.

All things being equal, would you rather fight a 150 lb woman, or a 150 lb trans woman who went through puberty as a man?

sorry why is this important?

Just wanted to share this resource that I heard about on the Tom Woods show. It's a series that is designed to teach classical liberal and libertarian philosophy to kids 5-10 years old. Are there any other similar resources that you guys have found that are good to teach critical thinking and economics to kids?

Yes and no. A society like Sweden which is relatively peaceful and recognizes the rule of law is much closer to what we want than a Muslim society which observes a brutal law based on ancient scriptures, is oppressive to women and children, and where people throw rocks at you for being different.

I think Stef has admitted that he is not in the dating market at the moment, and doesn't know directly how things have changed. He seems to mention it every other time that this topic comes up. But I think it's also to push back against this kind of determinist, which is just the sexual/romantic version of "I'm not reaching my economic potential and career goals because the system is broken!"

You really have to stretch to come up with these scenarios Yes Pod has it right, up until he finds out the man is trapped in there, it's an honest mistake. After he has the knowledge that someone is trapped in a room in his house against their will, to no release them is kidnapping.

Hi Nate, welcome. What drew you to FDR, and what subjects most interest you?

Link? Funny how something like this -- GET THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OUT OF EDUCATION?!?!?! -- which is really only turning the clock back to the mid 70s, and returning a local institution to local political control, is seen as crazy. A generation after the government takes over something, people can't imagine it any other way.

Sorry I'm no expert on these things, but didn't the biggest advances in the free market, both in terms of practical applications, and philosophical defense, come from more Protestant countries, particularly England and Holland? And if you look at things today, it seems that the more Catholic places like Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, France?? and so on, are more susceptible to socialism than the relatively freer US, Canada, UK, Australia, Scandinavia, and so on, who are historically more Protestant/secular.

I have been hearing about this story without knowing or caring very much about it. But when I saw that video on CNN, my heart jumped -- that's a really terrifying scenario, it's a wonder he wasn't hurt worse from just being dragged around, and I'm glad he's okay, even if it is a little sad about the dead gorilla - if anything the mother should owe the zoo for her negligence. And it's so fucking ridiculous how people chase the media's chosen moral cause of the day like 6 year olds chase a soccer ball. Stray bullets from gang warfare kill black kids in Chicago - meh. Bullet kills gorilla to protect a black kid - OUTRAGE!!!

Hi there and welcome. Sorry to be dense, but what is so strange about appreciating a thinker's views on certain issues, but not others? I like a lot of Ann Coulter's stuff on race, gender, welfare, and other social issues, but her bloodthirsty support of war is quite shocking and horrifying to me. Tom Woods is a great libertarian thinker, but also a devout Catholic which is perplexing to someone like me. And Chomsky has very spot-on analysis of US foreign policy, but is pretty boring and status-quo on just about everything else, displaying the same bold ignorance of economics, and straw-manning free market arguments as everyone else in academia. What do you mean "ignore his views on domestic issues" ? There certainly has been a lot said by an-caps about left libertarian ideas such as syndicalism. The short argument is, that syndicalism is just a description of a certain approach to organizing an economic firm - it is neither moral nor immoral. I have seen no evidence to suggest that it is a practical way to organize a business, but people are free to do things as they choose. But most ancoms or syndicalists will not return the same tolerance to capitalists, which is the problem. My impression with left libertarians is, they feign to accept liberty in principle, but also have a kind of utilitarian vision of what a just world looks like ("Cosmic Justice", Thomas Sowell calls it), but the reality of liberty doesn't look the way they want it to, because of the wide distribution of intelligence, skill, work ethic, good/bad choices, and luck among the population, which is also not evenly distributed between the races and the genders. So as a result, some people in a free society do very well, and some people do not so well - this is unacceptable to the egalitarian fantasies of the left libertarian, and so they ascribe these things to "economic hierarchies" which are exactly like the state even though they appear to be voluntary. That's the most sense I've ever been able to make of it, what do you think?

This is the problem with opportunity cost in general, it is very difficult to measure. When the government "creates" $50,000 jobs, it's impossible to know how many jobs of what kind, at what pay, would have been created otherwise.

GoT has some interesting themes, but is for the most part a soap opera with nudity and ultra-violence and magic. yes there's also a randomness to it, where anyone can die at any moment, where there are no true heroes, no real explication of universal standards or values, no principles by which a person can succeed and thrive and be happy - just a few decent people fighting for survival in a hellscape of winter, war, tyranny, corruption, and zombies.

I believe it's covered in more detail in The Gene Wars: r/K Selection series

UPB and morality have nothing to do with evolutionary success. I may have misunderstood, but I thought you were implying they were.

it's really sad. gender relations are so screwed up in Japan as much as in the West

Hi John, nice to see you around here again. I think EI answered the question pretty well, but what I wanted to ask of you, is what does this even mean in Objectivism? I always had trouble with this part of Rand's thought in particular. How do we measure the life of man? Doesn't it differ based on the person? And doesn't this potentially justify harming others for your own survival, or some kind of utilitarian welfare state? I just never really understood what she meant by this, or how it leads to the NAP or a minimal state.

fantastic, as are all your videos. I really enjoyed this excerpt in the call-in show and glad you chose to do draw it.

sorry but what's this to do with statism?

hilarious and fascinating and tragic...

I would add, that politicians tend to appeal to unmet emotional needs and insecurities. In the case of Sanders, many of the fears he addresses are legitimate, but his diagnosis of the cause and cure is wrong. So either your cousin has the wrong reasoning and information, in which case giving him better information would prompt him to reject socialism and Sanders. But if he doubles down and escalates, in which case he has an emotional prejudice that BS satisfies, in which case you can't reason him out, you have to understand the emotional needs BS meets for him.

How have you improved yourself, and how are you doing in your life? Because from what I've seen, you are severely lacking in empathy, have issues reasoning, display emotional immaturity, and poor communication skills. But, please tell me, how are you doing in your life, and why should someone take advice from you as to how to improve themselves? So sorry about what you went through, and kudos on the courage it took to bring these things up. It sounds to me like they behaved really horribly in the past, which is nearly impossible for a person's conscience to overcome.

I'm sorry to hear about that. are you interested in adoption or surrogacy?