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It's difficult for me to come down on this because I feel like this rule would apply in a free society. Like if a website messed up and started selling a thousand dollar product for 99 cents, I don't think the seller is necessarily bound by that mess up. Likewise, I don't think someone who bought the item for 99 cents should be charged full price, rather they should be informed about the issue and asked if they want to purchase it at full price.
If someone or something messes up at a casino, I don't think they need to dole out to the people who exploit the fault. I also think that if a customer messes up, say they go all in and accidentally throw the dice off the table, that the casino should give them a second chance and not exploit their mistake. I'm not really sure how casinos work, but you get what I am saying.
Of course, all that would be in the terms and services that you don't read but agree to, and not some law that is in some place you'd never find.
It's the responsibility of the casino to shuffle the cards.
Gambling is ok if the casino has an edge but not if the player does? If everyone agrees to the terms of the game and there's no fraud you can't go back after the fact and say "Wait, I wouldn't have agreed if I had known I was a big underdog"
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However, if you choose to spend a single dime of it, you're stupid.
nonsense, use it wisely the same as any other money.
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Hi Other,
Welcome. Do you accept the validity of the Non Aggression Principle?
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Everyone uses the force of the government. It's not as simple as, "If I don't call the police, I don't use the force of the government."
It's as simple as, "If what you're doing exists because government makes it so, the you're using the force of the government."
Were the Jews in concentration camps using the force of naziism if they ate the food given to them?
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I'm both sorry and glad to hear that.
Just out of curiosity, how well does the person described in the OP match your attitude at any point between when you were in the army and now?
I had a similar response when people asked if I was going to do a "killing" job in that I wasn't seeking out the opportunity but wouldn't be opposed to the idea. Some people I trained with joined because they wanted to kill and that bothered me even then.
I was Christian and after I told him I was talking to the recruiter my father gave a sermon in church singing the virtues of patriotism and honor...
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Here I imagine a father beating his child and then humiliating him further for crying. I also see a child showing all the symptoms of abuse - depression, withdrawn, etc and then being accused of "faking it" to elicit undeserved sympathy.
I'd like to hope that somebody this far gone could be saved, but the odds are against it.
I was a soldier and this describes my childhood pretty well. I've been saved
OP, your arguments are valid but you're arguing from efficiency rather than morality. I'd ask if he thinks murder is wrong and go from there.
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The data can be explained by lack or reporting due to cops and others not reporting. Like how drug crime would go to zero if drugs laws were not enforced. We do not know if crime has lowered or gotten higher because there is no third party measurement, the numbers are based on police reporting, in which case of course the numbers has decreased when they purposely do not intend to enforce the law in most small crime instances.
I wasn't making any comment on the amount of crime, just the fact that they thought not writing petty tickets would be seen as a bad thing. The public is not going to see this and be like "get back to work writing parking tickets". I'm hoping they're going to realize how much of what the police do is completely unnecessary.
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Wonder what the economic benefits will be? Waiting for the onion's take on this.
it would be great if they'd refuse their salaries while refusing to work, but lol at that idea. Taxpayers will just keep funding the "7th largest army in the world" http://www.salon.com/2012/09/28/nine_terrifying_facts_about_americas_biggest_police_force/
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Citations for traffic violations fell by 94 percent, from 10,069 to 587, during that time frame.
Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination also plunged 94 percent — from 4,831 to 300.
Even parking violations are way down, dropping by 92 percent, from 14,699 to 1,241.
Drug arrests by cops assigned to the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau — which are part of the overall number — dropped by 84 percent, from 382 to 63.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/29/arrests-plummet-following-execution-of-two-cops/
Unions tell cops to not work unless absolutely necessary "for safety". They don't like the anti cop sentiment of late so they want to show us how horrible life would be without them, except it's a low nicer...
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inequality=imbalance and is inherently unsustainable. How is fixing a toilet illegal especially if its your toilet?
Do you have evidence backing this statement? because I'd say imposed equality is probably unsustainable and definitely immoral.
You need a license to be a plumber.
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40% is owned by the 1%. Are you saying the 1% works harder than the rest? Are you saying that someone born into wealth works harder than a taxi driver?
Inequality is not inherently bad, but government exacerbates this inequality through things like professional licensing requirements and protected monopolies. In my area it's illegal to fix a toilet without permission from the government.
from vid "Some people say the debt is immoral, but people borrow for good things all the time!" STRAWMAN
It's not immoral to take out a loan, it's immoral to take out a loan on behalf of a non consenting 3rd party such as an unborn child.
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shirgall, on 03 Oct 2014 - 1:10 PM, said:
Quote: Don't forget George W says God told him to invade Iraq
If someone called themselves an anarchist or libertarian and then joined Occupy Wall Street - would you say that anarchists are hypocrites - or that the ones that joined the protests were simply not who they say they are.
You judge people by what they do, not by what they say they believe.
I was responding to your post that said Christians haven't started wars or whatever you said. It's a pretty huge deal for brainwashed kids like I was to hear that God wants us to go to war.
Why would an anarchist not be against bank bailouts?
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I'm not sure we can discard 2000 years of Christian sectarian violence so easily.
As for today, how about the administration claiming that ISIS was executing Christians as a excuse for bombing, when the facts were that ISIS was executing far more of people from different Muslim sects?
How about the neocons constantly harping on the 700 Club for war? Why don't they count?
Don't forget George W says God told him to invade Iraq
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I won't get into the issues in this post, but have expended much brainpower trying to figure out the libertarian position without reaching a definitive conclusion. I invite Stefan to take this up.
You'd be better off spending your time debating how to win the lottery because it's a lot more likely and definitely more fun
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Should have sold her property for bitcoin.
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Please give the Free Market Way!
The free market way is without force.
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Is it saying people innovate to get around regulations and crediting the regulation for stimulating this activity?
That would be like rapists claiming credit for stimulating the pepper spray market.
Plus it's the broken window fallacy.
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Despite all that, there are upsides to cryptocurrency. I am not convinced that those upsides outweigh early adopters like Gavin Andresen and "Nakamoto" from quite literally becoming rich at the expense of others, as their coins had no value until others invested. That's not to say that fiat currency is any better, but why should I prop up one group of speculators (early bitcoin adopters) vs another (fiat bankers)? What incentive do I have to feed into this system? In theory, why shouldn't I just create my own crytocurrency (since it's open source), quickly mine 10-20% of all possible coins, and then open it up to the public and make billions of dollars? What is to keep the early adopters from dumping their shares, flooding the market, and laughing all the way to the fiat bank?
Given its open source nature, anybody can start their own cryptocurrency. The hard part is getting somebody to accept it for goods or services. If you can convince people to use your currency you can do even better than the early Bitcoin adopters.
A fun exercise I like to do is replace bitcoin with USD when reading skepticism of crypto. Oftentimes people have never thought to apply that critique to the currency they use regularly. What incentive do I have to feed into the USD system? What is to keep the Federal Reserve from dumping their digitized dollars and flooding the market the market and laughing all the way to the war hawk bank?
With bitcoin there is a strict limit to the inflation (which goes to people doing work) and we know the total market cap precisely at any moment in time. Can your fiat currency do that?
Edit: Potcoin is an example of one that was started by a community presumably with your concern about not wanting to enrich Bitcoin early adopters. It is basically a copy of litecoin as far as I know. I haven't found any reason that it's preferable over bitcoin or litecoin except that the entire community it's marketed to was given the opportunity to mine from day 1. Several businesses are accepting it in exchange for goods now.
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Right and wrong are what they are regardless of the opinions and wishes of voters.
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In order to have any sort of credibility as a "teacher" to anyone, one must have a government license.
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Do you feel a crisis of conscience for using the internet, which was created by a government, funded by taxes? Using roads? Buying government subsidized agricultural products? Of course not.
If one wants to teach, this is the path he has to take because of state power. The kids would be forced to go to school anyways. They'd still have the same parents. Some other asshole would fill the position.
Do you see no distinction between driving on roads when there's no other reasonable means of transportation and actively seeking a position participating in the process of statist indoctrination? I'm not lobbying my representatives for road building contracts, I'm trying to develop a jetpack (in the metaphorical sense as it relates to public education).
Your second statement is not true. There are plenty of teaching opportunities outside of public education. You are posting on a free educational message board...
IMO soon it will be blatantly obvious even to bootlicking leftists that the state subsidized education is inferior to the free market alternatives. The fact that the best teachers (i.e. John Taylor Gatto and Stefan Molyneux) refuse to participate in public education will only help to accelerate this.
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Now, the problem is that I know I will make a difference as a role-model and mentor to the kids I will teach, and I will not accept any corruption in my teaching methods as soon as I will be alone in a classroom with my students (which I couldn't do during my internship, as I had a supervisor for the entire time giving me feedback and whom had the power to fail me as soon as I went outside of the expected practices preached at the school).
What could be a philosophical course of action in this case? We need excellent teachers in public schools, and changing career right now do not make sense to me, especially because I could see the change I was making especially in my science classes, where the kids got used to questioning everything we were studying, without taking it for granted. But at the same time I want to pursue a moral life, and it will have to include my career as well.
Thanks for your help
Welcome Corey. I can relate. I was planning to teach also, but had decided against public school before I came to philosophy (mainly because I wanted nothing to do with unions). Then I became an atheist and that eliminated lots of the private choices. I have a problem with compulsory education in general and I don't want to try to teach people who don't want to learn, so I'm looking into private tutoring and/or language schools like English as a second language.
So the reason behind your plan to teach in public schools is that you want to be a mentor and role model for young people while earning a living, right? Can you accomplish that in a setting where the kids are not forced to be there and your salary isn't funded by taxes? If you believe that taxation is theft and theft is immoral, would it be easier or harder to have a positive impact on the people you teach if your salary is funded through theft?
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The difference is Hamas was the Legitimately elected government of Gaza, just as is the current Poroshenko government of Ukraine, no matter how illegitimate or legitimate both might be seen, Hamas is not a "terrorist organisation" as it is so often referred to as to undermine its legitimacy and its right to protect the people it was chosen by to serve.
please watch : http://youtu.be/hSPAm-ZWBAQ "The Blood of Palestine is on the Hands of the Bribe-Takers"
How does an election make them not terrorists? Why do you think the distinction is important? I think the Israeli side is terrorist too fwiw.
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If you know somebody is shooting at you and force an innocent in the path of a bullet it's murder. If you know an innocent is between you and your target and pull the trigger anyway it's murder.
Help: I like this girl...
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Tservitive, have you read Real Time Relationships? I found it to be extremely helpful and Patrick's suggestion is in line with the methodology in the book.
Don't compromise imo.
Wow, why would you do that? Pretty sure you could go to jail. There are way too many good single women out there to risk getting murdered by a jealous husband/BF.
Your analogy doesn't fit because if she lies and says "I have told my BF" OP can test it by approaching the BF...