Ken Cotton

Rape is a net negative because the results of it are a net negative for the people involved or observing. Human beings have a common desire to avoid being raped or to be upset when someone they love is raped. This is relative to humans though. In the human context rape is evil, but objectively rape is not evil. I'm willing to set aside the discrepencies and other failings of the trials themselves and agree that yes, they had an idea of evil and crimes as it pertained to their worldview.

He ( like most people ) recognizes that our time on earth is limited and that spending an inordinate amount of it on any individuals with which we're not deeply connected is a waste. Disdain and mockery are just the typical result of a successful person looking at or critiscizing an unsuccessful person. In this way I don't think his mockery is a lack of empathy, because he has explained many times he likes being lazy himself and gets it, but rather an overt rejection of the subliminal request of the lazy people. The lazy people require motivation or an investment of time and resources that the average person is unwilling to spend and their loafing around is sort of a subtle ask for that investment. It isn't as much that he doesn't understand the desire to be entertained as much as it is a response to their audacity. I think that in order to be fair, you have to assume references to lazy people are references to people with the capacity to better themselves but who lack the desire or courage to do so. There is a fine line between sympathizing with people and becoming frustrated with them or giving up on them. I don't think it's meant to be a sort of bashing of people who are stuck in wheelchairs or something, telling them to stop whining and start climbing Everest. More of a "don't complain about not climbing Everest if you have working legs and decide to spend all your time sitting in a chair".

It's pretty interesting. It really gives a step by step introductory exploration into the subject matter. The mind wants to just run free into the wild with assumptions and common assertions but it just keeps putting hurdle after hurdle in the way. Not in a bad way. It's interesting in that it transforms a race into something more. Forces the mind to stop and go through a mental series of checklists and rational criticisms before moving forward. I have to agree with Stefan about public school in that this rigidity is completely unfamiliar. I for one have been taught an immense bulk of information that I can regurgitate on cue without having been taught the actual framework behind deconstructing complex arguments. Really gotta hand it to FDR and Stefan Molyneux for having shows online that are engaging enough to pull someone off the net and into a book on concepts infinitely more important than the junk floating around. Maybe when his daughter gets a little bit older he'll get into his own Cosby or Mr Dressup type role and do a TV show for kids. I think it would be a game changer for entire generations of children. Sure you'd have to tone down the whole no taxes the state is bad thing, but I think it would be worth it!

I am on a caffeine high reading MORAL PHILOSOPHY Theories and Issues by Emmett Barcalow and it's like BOOM! Feels like my brain just picked up some weights and started pumping iron. I'm excited to feel my horizons expanding just by reading a more intuitive and modern interpretation of the craft. What is everyone else reading or into right now?

Good and evil are relative, yes. Can you discern net advantages for a whole from certain activities? Yes. We have pretty much come to the conclusion that rape is a net negative to human beings and we call it evil. That doesn't mean that rape is intrinsically evil, because evil is just a word we've made up to encompass things that make US uncomfortable. We don't consider the fact that animals regularly engage in non consensual sex to be "Evil" because it doesn't really bother us. The Nuremburg trials were just a display of power and a warning by the victorious powers of the war against the defeated. Human rights and crimes against humanity were just the words used to grease the wheels on the trials. I'm sure that there were many people at that time that felt genuine anguish and had real grievances, but objectively speaking it didn't have a lot of real legitimacy. How many people have committed "crimes against humanity" since and not paid for it, or even been charged on it? How many people in the Allied forces were tried with crimes against humanity for the things they did in the war? http://ironcladfuture.blogspot.ca/2014/11/principles-and-magnitude.html Guilt is the determining factor behind whether genocide is acceptable or not, not the logistical reality of the number of people who are guilty. "QUESTION AUTHORITY!" "Why?"

Figures. I knew the media would get at least one detail wrong!

I heard Brown was shot dead by a gang of police while volunteering at a local animal shelter in the middle of washing baby kittens.

I'm just going off what he said, fuck the nazis, fuck the communists, fuck this and that. A lot of Nazis at the end ( and during ) WWII were butchered or tortured simply for being German citizens. The vast majority of Germans were less aware of the concentration camps and intricate details of the Nazi regime than modern Americans are aware of Guantanamo Bay. As a result of that basic, craven "FUCK THE NAZIS" style of revenge thought many relatively innocent people died for things they were both unaware of and not consenting to. If it's "fuck nazis lol who cares" in a flippant manner like an expression of their irrelevance or "who cares" that's a lot different from "FUCK NAZIS" or an expression of hatred. There are kinds of people who will show up at neo nazi rallies in this day and age and like, throw bricks at them and tell them they're scum who should die and all that. Now, I'm not saying that because I think they deserve pity. I'm saying that to show how hatred ( even against nazis ) can result in people wanting to infringe upon basic freedoms in America. Many antis quoted will say that they don't think X people should be allowed to speak Y. That's pretty dangerous for a nation whose original character was liberty and freedom. I think you'll find, in the end, there are always disagreements about what is and isn't evil. You have principles about evil and realities about evil. Stefan said himself that your relationship with advanced physics, the universe, dark matter/energy etc is all really irrelevant. The same is ultimately true about your relation to good and evil in an immense universe of indestructible energy. You have no real enduring connection to the core universal principles of good and evil, only a fleeting and subjective connection to the human beings around you. The laws of gravity seem universal and unavoidable, and yet human beings have developed cheats to bypass the places where gravity inhibits us. We can fly planes around the world not because we escape gravity, but because we bend the rules and tilt and the table. The state similarly can be designed to afford us great heights, pleasures, and successes not by ever escaping your definition of evil, but by flirting with it. I for one think this is a very interesting development.

Also, once you have enemy factions within a culture reason is a lot less important. A business that chooses to take no stance suffers from the typical "in the middle" strategic position of being smashed by both sides or torn apart. A business with no position on an issue is just like North America during the colonial period of history - pretty much untapped resources waiting to be taken advantage of. The business that takes no stance on gun control in favor or against is more likely to lose all 10 ( or even just a majority ) and so going for one group of 5 is a safer choice.

Boycotts are an option, but only insofar as you have a cohesive culture. If you have 10 people, and 5 of them agree with gun control and 5 of them don't, a boycott won't work. You don't have a cohesive culture where the 10 people or even a strong majority will dictate the business. You just have 5 vs 5. The business can go either way, and then it will just boost its market. Boycotts are never going to have an effect in a culture where a strong enough buyer base will continue buying because there is no reasonable gains to be had.

It's a blatant reference to rape as a display of power and sexual subjugation. There's no way you can say "FUCK YOU" to an idea without completely removing any human element of the idea and reducing it to something much more base. It's an instinctual, meat driven instinct behind virtually every inhumane atrocity in human history. Destroying someone or their idea in a dispassionate and reasonable way is decidedly impersonal and universally less evil. When you kill a violent psychopath that is attacking you or you take apart a falsehood its regarded as an expression of reality, like gravity. When you cross the line and say FUCK THAT CRIMINAL or FUCK THAT IDEOLOGY you aren't protecting yourself anymore. The male interpretation of fucking is inherently aggressive. Whether that invasion, aggression, and conquest is welcome and enjoyed or non-consensual and terrible is the difference between people enjoying it and hating it. When you cross into the territory of saying FUCK IT you aren't repulsing it anymore, you're trying to get into it. You're trying to assert yourself in the format of inserting yourself into your enemy. You want to destroy them from within and plant your own traits in them or their land, and raise people in your image. FUCK RELIGION, raise reason. FUCK THE STATE, raise free men. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. Kill the men physically or intellectually that oppose you, steal their women, and raise kids that are more like you. It's decidedly base and universally human.

At last we arrive at the core sentiment behind it all. Violence forever. The eternal struggle. FUCK YOUR ENEMY! You are me if I push you hard enough. You always were, you always will be.

Indeed. That, or they just buy throughout the year at a reasonable rate using sensible saving and buying strategies. I guess for some people though, it's kind of like a sport or tradition and they're there just as much for the frenzy of the sale as the sale itself.

I'd tell them to stop being African American and just be American. Live as whitewashed a life as you possibly can. Eat mayo and complain about rap lyrics being harmful to THE CHILDREN! Go to church. Watch news at 11pm and drink hot water. Have barbecues occasionally with a few beers. Engage in passive aggressive tactics of dominance and ostacization at work. BOOM! One day you'll wake up in a tidy house with car payments, a wife that nags you for leaving socks laying around, and 2-3 kids. THE AMERICAN DREAM.

On the plus side, slightly shorter lines. LOL. Not really. 99% of these hipsters are gonna cave after 10 minutes of loitering around and try to make the sales.

A male pill would be useful to stop pregnancies, but would probably cause an explosion of STD spread. I am as dissatisfied as anyone by condoms but their additional protections aside from blocking sperm are relevant. It's just a physics and logistical reality that stopping STDs at least is best served by men wearing condoms. I'm sure this would be a great product for people in committed monogamous relationships to use, but I'm afraid that the bulk of sexually irresponsible people would consider themselves safe from their main objection ( paying for kids ) with little regard for others ( spread of disease ).

To be fair though, 99% of that theme park seems completely joyous and awesome. In my experience if something is mostly successful but has flaws you don't just abandon it, you work to minimize the risks inherent to the product or practice. Hell, using a hammer has certain risks. Where would we be without hammers? I appreciate a cautionary tale as much as anyone but the anti-GMO stance of some people seems to be out of control.

I think all you have to do is congratulate the system for coming to the reasonable conclusion and disdainfully chastise the animals in Ferguson for destroying their community. For those far left people and bleeding hearts of the world the truth is massively offensive. It's to be expected though as we are talking about low IQ lawless people with short attention spans. They don't have the patience or mental acuity to take part in the democratic process and just want to throw tantrums like children when things don't go their way. This is why the state exists. Not because the majority of state assets get off on subjugating people ( surely a few do ) but mainly because the common people need protection from these outrageous vermin. These kinds of "people" have been the enemy at the gates since the dawn of time. As long as there has been civilization there has been those who seek to undermine it and would rather live like wild creatures as opposed to civilized human beings. In a perfect world we would dissolve the state entirely and everyone would leave prosperous, virtuous, productive lives - in the real world hard working store owners have their businesses burnt down because illiterate rabble are outraged over a thug being rightly shot by police. This systemic abject sympathy toward criminal scum will be the undoing of every great work by western culture. It is time for the lawful majority to stand together and tell these people and their handlers enough is enough. It is time for the state to return to its roots as a consensual and voluntary expression of community unity. You and your neighbors are the nation. Now is not the time for negligence and abandonment of the world's shining light. Now is the time to throw off the shackles of unrealistic permissiveness and prove the foundations of conservative conduct are what keep our countries working every day. Piss off your "friends" by telling them that the time has come for society to wake up and remember our nations were born of blood and sacrifice to ensure the rule of law!

Killing, or alternative methods of population control. The easiest way to accomplish this would be the traditional divide and conquer methodology. For example, if that scene played out in Ferguson tonight, only a certain portion of American society would actively revolt. Many complacement people would sit around uncomfortably making justifications. Opposition to Ferguson would waffle between displaying shallow sympathies or saying they got what they deserved. The people raging about the situation in Ferguson and all that would either coalesce and fight or be scattered. One by one you remove your enemies until none remain. Polarizing politics and tribalism makes this easier, not harder, because people aren't Americans anymore. People are white americans, black americans, asian americans, republicans, democrats, socialists, libertarians, etc. An endless see of divisive traits that have drawn people away from one another and into competing colonies of ideology. In the end the struggle will play out, and in the process, some ideas and lifestyles will go extinct - or at least fade from history for a time. I really liked 1:50 though that was cute. It's pretty much a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point that if you're a white guy with blonde hair and blue eyes you're the mascot of evil and you're going to dispassionately kill all who stand in your way. I think there are probably a lot of surfer dudes with those superficial qualities that want to smoke pot and live at peace with the earth banging hot babes but of course we're swinging back around to HEIL HITLER style propaganda. That's whatever. It's gotten to the point where I think a percentage of white people feel like blacks that are told they're gangster trash about racism and authoritarianism and just give in like, hey, fuck it. If that's who I am I'm going to own it.

This mostly just sounds like the kind of stuff that comes from ignorance on a subject. I'm sure if he spent some time with the people or saw the right material he'd change his mind.

In a perfect world chicks can walk around drunk and naked and no one cares. In the real world some victorian principles of chivalry developed with good reason. Aren't the sexual assault rates something insane like 90% of women in India? The real rape culture of the world is the absence of chivalric culture. It's profoundly disturbing to me that any society could possibly forget the value of women to the point where they let them fight in the street or walk around drunk by themselves. The sheer self-destructive nihilism of modern western society is mind boggling to me. We've got all the symptoms of a people ready to die off within a century and we just keep covering them with NFL/NHL/Bieber/Iggy tylenols. "Don't worry about teaching women to defend themselves or to act sensibly, let's all just get blackout drunk and party and not be responsible for our actions." Insanity.

Hitler once said "The basic feature of our economic theory is that we have no theory at all." Economy is all resource trading. Whether your job is mining, manufacturing, or gathering berries. The principle role of the economy is to meet the basic needs of the people and to fairly compensate people for their efforts. Anything short of an economy that does this is just complex extortion. However, this runs counter to the unrealistic fairy tale that most people have been taught about equality. Equality under the law has been confused with equality among people, which is simply nonsensical. Unskilled workers are not worth as much as CEOs and shouldn't be paid the same. That being said, the gap between a CEO and an unskilled worker is worth investigating. This tends to bring us to the root issue, which Stefan at least covers in the UPB and peaceful parenting rather than pretending it doesn't exist. At its root, investors of multi-national corporations have no real tie to the people that work for their companies. If you are a transient billionaire globalist that has 100 different houses around the world and visits them, you've completely forgone most of the practical concerns of nationalism. You aren't really a citizen of say, the United States of America or of China, you just happen to spend some time of the year living there. From the lowliest fast food worker in the USA to the slave laborers of China you have no real attachment to their circumstance. There is no pressing need or incentive to do anything for them other than the barest amount possible. This is why a large amount of resources and jobs have shifted away from North America and overseas. I had a boss that used to go above and beyond for his employees. It made his business more competitive in a variety of ways. However, in an era of multinational corps and digital money ( this being a major key issue ) these kinds of tactile connections are less and less important. We can see how this is negatively affecting economies around the world. There are practically invisible industries like the transfer of wealth ( armored cars for bills/change ) that are hit by the ability to transfer wealth digitally. You can have millions of dollars or billions of dollars flow around all over the place like water sloshing around in a bucket. The money moves faster than the resources, assets, and manpower that it represents. It sneaks off into offshore accounts and into politician's pockets. As we step away from nationalism, the value of people plummets. The value of a person will always only be as strong as your connection to them. Your chances of improving your value to an investor or CEO you'll never meet are incredibly slim.

Cooperation is only more efficient than violence if you assume equality. In a position where one entity is significantly stronger than the other, violence can be highly efficient. Our civilization and logic are extremely fragile, ready to collapse at any moment. Very poor people are outpacing us in reproduction at a devastating rate. China and India have over a billion people each. Our rights and freedoms are ideas on paper, tenuously connected through chains of people that can be silenced at any time. More insidious bad ideas rampant in the left undermine our basic survival instincts and perpetuate the problem. Societies where 90%+ of the female population has been sexually assaulted, or where cities are lost in smog, or where people stricken with ebola flee medical services, are set to inherit the earth. Don't lecture me on how we all need to put down our weapons and forget how to fight when there's a teeming sea of insects out there eager to eat us alive.

I want to say yes and no. Obviously animals don't have the same mental faculties as human beings, but they do convey their thoughts and emotions in their own way. I imagine that most animals will tend to respect property rights as they have usually, just out of fear. Those animals that trespass can be dealt with the same way as people who trespass. The questions you've posed though, can apply equally to human beings. What happens to mentally retarded people who are incapable of some of those things? What happens if you encounter someone that speaks a different language than you? What assurances do you have that any given person will adhere to the NAP or be capable of solving complex property disputes without violence? The reason that most arbitration and small claims court services exist is because the majority of the population gets locked into he said she said type disputes over minor grievances or property violations.

I'm sorry I didn't mean to neglect you. I feel as though that claim is too humanist in terms of talking about aliens. If you just mean imperialism, they can go with the british model ( Alexander the Great's originally if I recall correctly ) and kill off the existing heads of state. If you look at China, they make a lot more for their highest tiers of society essentially through slave labor. The fact that their wages and working conditions are set to improve is part of what will cool their economy. Higher wages and standards of safety reduce net profits and divide wealth. The main objection to slavery is ethical, not economical. If you do not have any ethical objections to slavery or genocide because of an alien composition there's no reason to assume you won't subjugate the entire planet, or terraform it to your living standards in a fashion that kills its domestic life forms.