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Somehow, I was thinking this at the back of my mind from all the times I hear Stefan say something similar to some callers, but can you perhaps elaborate on how my mom's choice of my dad leads to her sharing the blame? I'm not entirely clear on this. Yes it's voluntary, but it reflects a failure on the part of my parents to have a discussion about the consequences of this voluntary decision, and placing an incentive system to make this voluntary decision happen (I'm still trying to remember the details of the incentive system, but I do remember making a calculated decision). This is just another example of them yelling/beating in favor of a conversation about the issue, and the results of that. And yes, I know there are much more serious health effects, Good point, my concern is actually the reverse. Stefan talked many times about the reversal of power where the parents become the weak ones, and become in need of care and funding by their children. I know for a fact that my parents do not approve of welfare, or even the medical systems we have today, so I view them approaching me one day for some kind of help as inevitable. Of course, I don't know the degree to which I will want to support my dad after his treatment of me during my childhood, and a conflict on this issue could arise at that time. By the time that problem could arise, it's perfectly possible that my Dad (and maybe mom too) won't be in any mental condition to discuss this issue, which is my motivation for having the talk earlier rather than later. (tell me if this doesn't make sense) Fortunately, I have a full time job now, and I'm living on my own (coincidentally, there are many US States between us right now). Good point though. Hmm, I'll take a look at that book soon, thanks for the recommendation

Hmm, I'm not sure what went wrong with the original poster's comment, however I think this is a major thing that needs to be discussed. I've had teeth rot since childhood that has called for a tooth extraction procedure today, and the sad thing is, this is something that could have been prevented VERY EARLY on if it wasn't for the fact that I felt paralyzing fear every time I think about, or even try to walk to my parent's room to discuss my tooth pains when I was younger. When looking at my past to try and figure out where this paralyzing fear was coming from, I recognized one thing. (and I had to move out of the house to even see this). Every time the front door opened, I suddenly felt tense. If it was my mom who entered, the tension would decrease (she wasn't very much involved in my upbringing), if it was my dad who entered, the tension would increase, and it would stay up until my dad sat down at his computer. I guess if this was cortisol doing it's work, and the amount of it in my bloodstream was somehow measured over the course of the day, it would look like this: _____________C _________B| | | | ____________________________ _____________________A| A = door opens B = person entering turns out to be Dad C = Dad sits down on the computer Notice that the level of tension does not decrease back to the level it was prior to the door opening. That usually never happened unless I noticed that my dad went to sleep, or I went to sleep myself. If I try to recall what my dad was like during my youth, I notice that the image of the angry dad surfaces easily, but the image of the smiling dad takes a great deal of effort to recall (to the point where I wonder if my mind simply constructs it). It doesn't take a genius to know that my dad was a brutal spanker (and yeller) from this information, but looking back on this curious door-opening scenario and the presence of paralyzing fear when trying to confide a health problem to my parents is a disturbing thought. Onto the dental history. I remember being told to brush my teeth twice a day, but I don't remember the details surrounding this since it happened so long ago, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was enforced by yelling or spanking. Consequently, there came a time when I consciously broke the teeth brushing habit since I felt it was a waste of precious time I could be playing on the computer (my dad always kicked me off the moment he came home). Of course, I kept the whole teeth brushing thing a secret (isn't there something about spanking causing kids to be secretive about the things they do?) I could go on, but for the purposes of the anti-authoritarian parenting message, I think it's clear that spanking and yelling is completely ineffective ESPECIALLY if the kid succeeds in keeping a major secret like this one from the parents ... a secret that causes tooth decay and other problems that arise only in the future. And lets be honest, the evidence that you are not brushing your teeth takes time to surface ... makes me wonder why they didn't confront me about it during those rare times when a relative asked about my teeth ... This reminds me of those times when Stefan talks about how he gets his daughter to be careful about what she eats, and it makes me wish that my parents were like that. Clearly, spanking and yelling has failed .... One thing that I would like to get advice on is ... how do I approach my parents about this? as of right now, they are completely in the dark about any of this ....

Hello guys, I was listening to a debate Stephan was having with Peter Schiff about bitcoins as linked here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFcTJAQ7zc4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUC3L8QaxqEGUiBC252GHy3w One of the concerns that Peter mentioned was how bit coins require technology in order to use them, as opposed to cash, which you can just transfer from one person to another easily. His concern was this technology involving the internet, so every transaction can be monitored by an outside agency once somebody figures out how to do that. Peter later noted that people might be able to carry their bitcoins in their flash drives, and transfer them that way, but I thought of something that might appeal even more so as it eliminates the need to find a computer to execute the transfer if you use the flash drive approach : Our smartphones. What if somebody created an app where phones connected to other phones that are nearby (using bluetooth or something), and the app would connect to an instance of the same app on the other phone, and then the transfer can be executed with just a few simple finger swipes. This would make the transfer process much easier as a whole, and I think it resolves that concern that Peter had about bitcoins being more difficult to transfer than cash (for black market actors) What do you guys think?

And there are many potential problems to not telling the truth. You need to keep track of your lies, and if you let one small thing slip .. the person you are talking to will become suspicious, and eventualy discover the lie. imagine the negative aspects of the truth combined with the negative knowledge that you lied ....

I think Skreimey basically nailed it here, but to summarize this answer as a direct response to the question: If you are in a boxing match, you have the choice to leave it at any time. With taxes, you do not have that choice. A voluntary interaction is voluntary only if you have the ability to exit. without that ability, it's not voluntary (even if you initially agreed to it)

Hello everybody, I've been seeing lots of comments (not on this forum, but all over the internet in general), where people are claiming that free healthcare is a human right. My thoughts on this is that free healthcare is not a human right because it doesn't match the same criteria that other generally agreed-on human rights have. Rights such as freedom of speech, protections against search and seizures, or cruel and unusual punishment all have one thing in common: There is no effort required on the part of society to observe these rights. People don't need to pay taxes in order for other people to have the physical ability to express their opinions. In fact, the censorship efforts against freedom of speech to violate the right DO require that effort. The manpower to arrest those who speak out against the government for instance. The mainpower needed to break into someone's home, or to torture someone are also examples where the violation of the right requires more energy than observing the right. This rule for healthcare is the other way around. In order to provide free healthcare, society needs to find a way to compensate the doctors, and the producers of the tools that doctors use, while not providing free healthcare requires no direct effort on the part of society, So knowing this, I say that free healthcare is not a right. For those of you who are in favor of free healthcare as a human right, how do you take this rule of cost (for lack of a better term) into account? how do you solve the issue of society having a shortage of resources to meet the demands for healthcare?