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I was reading an article earlier from MSN.com that said a Russian missile brought down MH-17 (if I remember which plane it was, correctly) I also saw an article about Navy search and rescue holding a vigil for a ship they had ceased searching for... And then I remembered a famous poster. https://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/loose-lips-sink-ships1.jpg The poster was there during the WW2 era to remind soldiers and civilians not to talk about downed ships, or in this case, downed aircraft. Because the fact of the matter was, America was at war at the time, and the press did not want to panic everyone by letting the info about it get out.

I agree with both of these, although, being vulnerable tends to be tiresome when you reveal just how many assholes there are around you. I generally assume most people are assholes, until they prove otherwise. It happens every once in a while. Interesting stuff, but I think we got off point here a bit. Relevant, I think, is the concept of beliefs and ideas not being real, and still having real consequences. People's lies are not real. For example, the lie of the state doing good for us, so we should pay taxes to it, when really the state does just as much harm if not more. These lies, whether real or not, are damaging, and should not be as sustainable and widespread as they are. These things should in fact be self detonating. I can't see how humanity continues on for so long this way. I cannot be sure of what she said, no, but I can test for congruence, and she did not seem to pass. Its not the first time or the only example. It is true, I seem to have reached a point at which I feel I can no longer improve, on my own. It's part of the reason I am on this forum, to check out other opinions and ideas. I often find, however, that a lot of my thoughts are agreed with, like Stephan in the video I linked saying (I cant remember the exact words) something to the effect of he cannot justify the continued existence of humanity. I would not say I am done with my self knowledge, or that I will ever truly be. I would say, I am more developed along my path than many people, and I am looking for other ways to develop. Your Dawkins scale question is kinda vague, I have many 1s and 7s, and 2s and 6es and so on. What do you want a rating for? UPB and survival of the fittest is indeed one of my philosophical struggles. On one hand, things like UPB, peaceful parenting and other such philosophies represent to me the pinnacle of humanity. On the other hand, the validity of survival of the fittest is unassailable, as we are only alive because of it's validity. Arguably, the only reason we have humanity in modern times, is because our developed humanity is protected by the philosophy of survival of the fittest, as in the case of the US military industrial complex kicking the ass of anyone who would disturb our tranquil lifestyle. The book "Lord of the Flies" comes to mind, where the moral of the story is we all believe we are above survival of the fittest, but when left alone starving on an island, our true nature reveals itself. This theme is supported by the end of the book, if you have read it.

Thanks Dsayers, that was a quality answer, I would rep you if I could.

Acceptable, though in the long run, living in lies always leaves you empty handed. I myself have experienced some of these aspects. Luckily I realized what I was missing in time to change things. If I were say, a prude attractive woman getting free stuff and never giving back, I would have no one to blame but myself when I grow older and have no resume or work skills, and no one wants me. I would say, I believe I have eliminated most of the falsehood from my mind. There are things that I do to affirm and corroborate what I say and do. The girl at work, for example, was also trying to tell me I never know who could be a psychotic murderer with bodies in their house, implying she had some. I have no falsehoods like that in my mind, certainly. Also, I think just from my first post here anyone could see I am fairly straightforward and accepting of myself. But if there is a way you think I am lying to myself, I would be interested to hear it, genuinely. Better you tell me than pull the rug from me later. Hmm... so if that is the greatest of lies, what is the truth? I am thinking the one true moral category is survival of the fittest? Kings and countries do have real consequences, though. If a commoner tells other people to kill me, they will probably laugh at him. If a king tells others to kill me, it just might happen. You have a point, that living lies is easier. It is also self destructive in the long run, like I previously mentioned about the former attractive woman. It's unsustainable, and people have to face the truth sooner or later. I can't see how the prospect of living a life of lies is so widespread, I can't see how its been sustained as to be so prevalent. How are so many people being sustained this way? It's as if people are going around living the lie that they don't need food. Eventually they are going to have to eat, or they are going to die. Last time I checked the world population is only getting bigger.

We had a new girl at work tonight. Cleaning the kitchen at night is always hard work. She says to us, she has seen bigger messes at another restaurant. We are all facetiously impressed by her saltiness. I make her clean the dough press, full of nasty gooey concoctions of oil, dough, butter and salt. Suddenly she feels like quitting. It's not the first lie she tries to live. She tries to say a few more and I keep shutting her down. She hates me, but I don't care. I need good workers, not good talkers. Unfortunately, this problem is not limited to her, or to people at work. I can't help but always notice, when someone is living a lie. It gives me power over them. It's like pulling out a rug from under someone. If you ever screw me, or are unnecessarily rude to me, I pull the rug of lies out from under you, and laugh as you hit the cold hard floor of truth. People then want to get mad because they expect me to put my time and energy and money and everything else forth propping up their lies. It has always made me more powerful as well, to face and accept the cold hard truth. No one can pull any rugs out from under me, unless I allow them to. I would only allow such things, if I was lying to myself... which is different from just being uninformed. I can accept some truth about myself right now. There is a lot that I don't know. I am not very popular at parties, or anywhere else. I am lazy, in the sense that I am comfortable in this job when I could be doing a lot better. But considering how easily people can be messed with when they are living a lie, I have always been baffled at how little people are willing to seek and accept the truth. Oh, how people can hurt, living lies. Most people can't even comprehend the pain and suffering that can come from other people living lies. Indeed, many people in America, even the world, could suffer greatly, just because they believed the lies of the wrong presidential candidate, and voted them into office. And then, of course, there is always THE lie. The greatest of lies. That America is about freedom, and we are all free, and that's what we always fight for. An entire nation, an entire world, run by living lies. I mean, I could see the allure of it. I like to live certain lies. I like movies and video games and books. I enjoy being temporarily enthralled in dramatic fantasies that don't actually exist. I like to pretend I am a dramatic book character, or a heroic video game character, or an adventurous movie character. But I always come back to reality. I always go back to responsibilities and work. My fantasies cannot be supported, without my realities being properly taken care of. Even Stephan has noted, not only how willing people are to live in lies, but how seemingly forgetful, or maybe willingly ignorant, people generally are; Other men can also be prone to living lies, but it is much more uncommon, compared to women. Truth is generally avoided by women, as can be seen in things as simple as the female population on this very forum. Girls like the one I was working with today are not uncommon. The better ones just work while they are speaking the lies they live. Customers come in saying we did something wrong with their food, even if they ordered it that way. They are just trying to get free stuff. It's always women. And of course, there is always dating them. Just the other day, I sat across the dinner table from a noticeably attractive female. The restaurant was a little more higher end, because the truth is women like the nice things money buys. The truth is, she expects me to pay her way through the date, because otherwise, this would be going nowhere. The truth is, she will indulge in her lies, because they make her feel good, and that's all she cares about. The truth is I will indulge in them as well, because the truth is all I care to do is sleep with her. I already know I don't like her personality. I already know she will never make for a good relationship. I already know she would be a horrible mother of children. But the truth is that ugly women also lie to themselves as well, and if I am going to put up with this shit I might as well go for an attractive girl. Society calls it "maturity" when you indulge in a woman's living lies, although real maturity would be for her to not live them in the first place. But the truth is, I did try not playing women and looking for a decent one, and the truth is I spent a ridiculous amount of time and money on it and never found anything worthwhile. I don't care to put up with women's games, or lies, or anyone elses for that matter, ever again. Because there is a greater truth encompassing everything else, and all of everyone's lives are insignificant in the face of it. There is another lie the world is currently living, that threatens the entire world. America is living the lie that it is supporting the Syrian rebels, which America itself actually created. Meanwhile, Russia is living the lie that it is bombing targets in Syria, supposedly in line with America's goals. Except Russia is actually bombing rebels in support of Assad, the rebels that America will not admit it created. The truth is that we are currently fighting a proxy war, with American and Russian fighters fighting in the same airspace. The truth is, we could all get nuked tomorrow, and I would have died without living my life to the fullest because of some naive code of ethics society expects me to live by. Because society expects me to be afraid of some deity and some afterlife that has never been proven. The truth is, I have only ever been miserable pandering to society and living in lies, and so is everyone else, but they are too afraid to admit it. It makes me think of a book I once read, "Fahrenheit 451" in which people willingly live a life of lies until the rug of their lies is pulled out from under them and they all fall into their nuclear fired deaths. When people in general so willingly give themselves to such conditions, I can't help but feel justified in being the one to pull the rug myself.

It's gonna take some significant time to get to what the will actually says. There's a big hassle involved I would rather not go in depth into. What I am trying to get at, is the more philosophical answer to this problem, that I myself am not sure I could answer. The question of whether a legal adult (perhaps regardless of mental age) should get an inheritance that might skew his life experience, or if his father, who may be corrupt, should have the power to say "do this or you don't get your money" forever until the end of time perpetually leading the kid on and benefiting from it.

I never liked my uncle. He's shady and two faced. He always puts his best face forward, as long as there is a benefit involved, but he will never actually come through for you. My dad is dependable, but more of the controlling statist kind of guy. Both my father and uncle like to be the ones controlling other people, even when they should not be. There is an element of myself in this scenario, to be sure. I was very lucky to have lots given to me when I was younger, especially silver, which performed very well during the recession. While everyone else was suffering, I was alone in an apartment with all the resources I wanted playing video games until they sucked the 20s out of me. I am still comfortable, but I realize now that I should have been building social skills, work ethic and a resume this whole time. The money messed up reality for me. And yet, despite this, I am very much aligned with the more anarchist idea that no one should be controlling anything that was meant for you/yours, and if it's going to mess you up, it's going to mess you up. You have to depend on your own internal judgement and values to see you through, and no one should be controlling you. I myself was wise enough to see what happened to me, and I am doing just fine and building myself now. I can't say that is what would happen to my cousin, however, and I do believe in more like a guided allowance, at least. To deny the inheritance to my cousin completely is to allow a threat of control that my uncle does not deserve.

I have not read it myself. It was a while ago that it was read to my dad, and he says that the money was intended for us (my dad and uncle got theirs) but that they can prevent us from getting it until we think we are ready for it. Honestly it might not even be in our parents hands, it may still be held by the court or whatever.

My cousin is 22. He knows how to be responsible (I'm pretty sure anyway) he's just kinda lazy. Kinda like my uncle. He seems like a lonely old guy, especially after he got divorced a while ago. Not very friendly and does not have many friends. He doesnt really go out much. I don't think its out of the realm of possibility that my uncle is just holding the money to be like "stick around and deal with me or you don't get your money" although he would never admit it. I don't think he would spend my cousin's inheritance. That would piss all of us off. I myself am confused about this. I am a very lucky guy who has always had comfortable grandparents and great grandparents happy to spoil me and leave me stuff. I was comfortable and spoiled, but also lucky enough to be interested in economics and such. I did not have to work hard, and now I see I missed more than just developing a work ethic. I was never out and about with coworkers making friends and learning social things. I work at a low end job right now because I find it fulfilling, and I am seeing what I missed. I think, if my cousin were to get his money, he might go through the same thing, but never realize anything. I don't know... I don't know what to make of it, my uncle is not the best guy to be holding it either.

Not so long ago a relative of mine passed away, and me and my sister got our part of the inheritance. I do have a cousin, however, that was supposed to get his part, but his dad has the power to withhold the inheritance from him until he sees fit for my cousin to receive it. My cousin obviously wants it, but my uncle won't give it to him. The will is kinda vague on how willing my dead relative was in consideration of just handing the money to my cousin. So that is what I am wondering here, should my uncle be holding my cousin's inheritance from him? My cousin is not the most responsible guy, sure, but my uncle is not the most reasonable guy either. I have offered my cousin some financial advice if he ever wants it, and I am not sure how truly interested in it he is. My uncle argues my cousin is going to go blow all the money, and that my cousin needs to prove he can make it on his own before he gets the inheritance. While that seems somewhat valid, I never really liked my uncle that much, and I could see him holding my cousin's inheritance from my cousin just to control him, which would certainly be unjust. There is some validity to the idea that my cousin might be irresponsible with the money, and blow it all. Mistakes can happen to anyone, however, and I think everyone needs to go through some failures to learn their own life lessons. But, even if my cousin WAS going to blow all that money, shouldn't that be his right? I mean, it's his inheritance, who is to tell him he can't go blow it? I don't think that is what is going to happen, I think he is gonna spend a chunk of it stupidly and then be good with most of it. But if he wanted to take it all and blow it, who has the right to tell him otherwise? What do you anarchists (and other philosophers) think of this situation, and what would you tell my cousin and his dad?

Something I meant to include but forgot, there is a fairly famous entity which has suffered the consequences of a direct manipulation of the credit system by the banks, which does not allow you, the supposed owner of the money in your account, to buy or sell as you please. Wikileaks was excommunicated by the credit system after one of it's massive intelligence releases. Since then they have been unable to send or receive any of what is supposed to be their own money. They have a web page dedicated to this fact; https://wikileaks.org/Banking-Blockade.html Whether you agree with the actions of Wikileaks or not, the fact of the matter is that the banking institutions have the capability to alienate you from what is supposed to be your own hard earned money, at will, without reason and without due process. It is the goal of these institutions to bring the entire world under this control, which is why there are only three countries left outside of it's system. Once they achieve their goals, they will be able to prevent anything that does not agree with their agenda simply by freezing your financial assets, like they did with Wikileaks. There will be nothing preventing them from buying and selling what they believe you should have for you.

Wanna see what Merrill Lynch thinks? https://www.ml.com/articles/the-state-of-the-housing-market.html?sr_source=lift_outbrain/&utm_source=simplereach&utm_medium=display&utm_content=1x1_custom.jpg&utm_campaign=2015_merrill_lynch_display&cm_mmc=gwim-integrated-_-simplereach-_-1x1_custom.jpg-_-na "...home prices going forward are set to... slow." "...home price appreciation flattens..." "...home prices are becoming overvalued relative to income." "...we're already above the bubble peak." Gotta be careful not to cause any panic with any extraneous words, we wouldnt want another taper tantrum.

For those of you watching finances, you know we have an interesting time ahead of us. The Federal Reserve recently announced, again, that it would not be raising interest rates. Typically this is a sign that the economy is not yet strong enough for the bank to raise their rates. The thing is, they have been putting off raising the interest rate for a long time. A very long time. Almost long enough for the 10 year bonds that were first issued when the interest rate hit 0% to mature. It was widely expected for rates to be raised even before this month, and with the recent announcement, investors are beginning to ask; "What is it the Fed sees, that is so dangerous, that they would still not raise rates?" Their lack of announcement has triggered somewhat of a rally in gold and silver. Good for me. Bad for the masses. Now I don't mean for this to be an all-encompassing thread about money, those in the know, know just how far reaching a goal that is. But I do want to touch on some of the recognized problems people are facing today, and perhaps more people can get a glimpse of the big picture of the world's financial problem. First consider this TEDx video; The speaker, Adam Carroll, does a good job of explaining how people are being raised to not understand the impact of money. One of the problems with this is student debt in America, which is totaling over 1 trillion dollars. A number the impact of which tends to not even impact the average person. The premise of the video is that money is being treated today as if it were not actual money, and people are living beyond their means because of it. According to Adam, 1 in 3 students are delinquent on their payments, and 1 in 5 are in default. Who knows what kind of prospective life the rest of the students are looking at. Arguably, this would not have happened if these students were working with actual cash money, or, heaven forbid, actual gold and silver. Now, considering this, some of you may be aware that the US government has a high chance of shutting down at the end of this month, or maybe postponing the shutdown to the end of next month. They are fighting over money again, perhaps most notably, the debt ceiling. One of my sources, Stansberry & Associates, saw this coming even before the month of May, when they sent me a news letter titled "Guess who is running out of cash?" If the government, during the shut down, does not vote to raise the debt ceiling again, it will not have enough money to continue operating. It will likely fight for a while, like it did in 2013, and then raise the debt ceiling again. It will also likely lower America's credit rating again. America has no way to pay off the debt, and one day it will not be able to continue borrowing. One day, someone will have to declare to refuse to pay the debt. But why does that matter? Well, we recently saw what happens when a country refuses to pay it's debt, with the example of the Greece debacle, as can be found in another thread here on this very forum. https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/22871-greece-economic-crisis/ When a country refuses to pay the debt, the banks stop allowing the citizens of that country to get and use money. Now, that might not be a problem, if everyone has physical cash. Unfortunately, because of fractional reserve banking, only 10% (and some argue less than that) of all money exists as physical cash. The rest of it exists as credit. Most of us go through our daily lives swiping debit and credit cards, thinking nothing of it, and spending more money as a result of our disassociation with physical cash as shown in the TEDx video. Bill Bonner, head of the Agora research website, details what it may look like if the banks suddenly stopped letting us use their credit system, in his recent video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ0KG3hcnog Now the video is a lengthy hour and a half, more than I can expect the average person to be bothered with, to be sure. I have watched all of it, and not all of it is news to me. Let's just simplify things by me telling you, if America ever does choose to default, it could stop over 90% of our economy from functioning. The event and its aftershocks are too grand and dire to be covered in any reasonable amount of time. Let's just say it would be catastrophic for the world. But what is the alternative? The alternative is, that the disassociation from physical money continue, until 100% of the world's economy is using the bank's credit system, and then they will be able to have us all manipulated well enough to delegate what an individual may buy and sell. One of the most recent articles I have received from "The Stansberry Digest" details how this plan was the bank's real goal all along; There are only three countries in the world currently not owned by a private central bank (and thus not subject to the manipulations of the creditors) and those are Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. Cuba is of course currently in talks with Washington, and Iran and North Korea are facing hostilities from America. That list used to be longer. In 2000 there were four other countries not owned by a private central bank. They were Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and Libya. America took over Iraq and Afghanistan, of course, and the UN took over Sudan and Libya. Not unlike what seems to be happening to Iran and North Korea today. And so, the world is only three small countries away from being completely under the control of the private central banking system. Once private central banks are installed, we are only a few money manipulations away from being completely controlled by the private central banks.

It's ok, soon the sex robot industry will make good on their backlog of pre-orders for products for men http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34118482 And then women won't have shit to complain about because all the men will be sitting in their rooms playing video games and fucking their robots. Oh, except as posted in the article, feminists are already campaigning against men having sex bots (even though women can have vibrators) because they totally get a say in other people's sexual activities. More like they are afraid of men permanently ignoring their shit, and then these narcissists will have no one to listen to their whining.

This. But also economics would have been interesting. Media, as television has so much control over people. The medical field would have been lucrative, if I could stomach most of it. Otherwise, I would have developed an education in a field I enjoy, with the goal in mind of becoming a college professor for it later in life. After all, education is so heavily subsidized/paid for with grants and such, that my income would be fairly guaranteed, regardless of my education's worth.

This is relevant to my interests. However, I see such things as relating to things like reading a good book. I like to sit and read them at Barnes & Noble, to know if it was a good book or not, before I purchase it. And I do indeed purchase books I have read when I do not need to. The last such series I have read in such a way was the Ender's Game quartet. If this is acceptable to you, by all means, hit me up so I can see if I have time for this. The last D&D campaign I played in online chat was quite fun.

Hmmm, interesting stuff. There is a lot to look through in this little universe link you have here. Thank you, I will look through it.

So I have my little restaurant job, and though I could do better for myself, I kinda like it here. I am not in any management position, but I have a certain authority with seniority, and I am looking at moving into management. There are a lot of people at my job who love to sit around and talk when there is work to be done. They don't like when I push them around and tell them what to do, but they also don't like when I take a well deserved break and leave them scrambling to serve customers. I pick up a lot of work that these slackers don't do, and when I am gone, they notice. I like working. I like seeing the place run well and the customers satisfied. I don't like these lazy ass people failing my restaurant. No one there really likes me, and while I am mostly unconcerned with this, a large part of it is because I do a good enough job to show everyone up. I sometimes feel like giving up on everything and quitting. I know the place would fall apart if I did. My boss has me working night shift six days a week because he knows they can't handle the influx of customers when I am not there. A big part of what I have to do, is pushing around these lazy asses and making sure they are doing something in their proper areas. And so I have perhaps a conundrum if I do move into management. I know I am going to be handing out write ups and clock outs like candy on Halloween. I know people are not going to be employed here for very long with all the back talk and laziness I am going to be fighting against. Really, the place is lucky its still operating, except for a few good key workers. I often think I should quit for a better job like I know I deserve and can get. The part of me that still wants to stay, is the part that likes seeing the place succeed despite all the unnecessary activity. Unfortunately, without these people, as ineffective as they can be, I still need them. Normally I would be ok with just knocking people off left and right, but unfortunately our general manager left months ago, and the only person with hiring powers is the district manager, which severely lengthens the process. The remaining management is somewhat powerless, as we don't have that many skilled, dependable and available people to choose from, and so our management can't just be knocking people off. They even end up putting up with disrespect, more disrespect than I would be putting up with. If I move into management, I can't be the usual dictator I naturally am, and it has already gotten to the point where barely anyone wants to talk to me so I could not lead by charisma. So I want to see if anyone here has management experience, and how they go about running their businesses, and what you might do in this situation if you moved into management.

Hmm... I disagree about guns being pointed back at them, in cases like mass shootings, it was one guy verses a lot of people who could have had guns but did not. Until the cops showed up. Although I suppose you can argue America is not exactly the freest society. Perhaps it is true what you see on TV is a minority. But then again also, we do have quite a lot of people locked up in the US these days, to the point where the prison system is overflowing.

I am, though I am not quite sure I have the words to encompass what I am looking for in an answer. Libertarians have a problem; they expect everyone whos not as fit as they are to accept their predicament and suffer and die if they are unable to support themselves without the state. As we can see today, that doesnt happen. The weak, for whatever reason makes them that way, will grasp at anything to alleviate their problems, even if it means signing up for the state. They are like moths diving into a flame. In their death throws, they reach out for something to save them. The state throws them a lifeline and they cling to it for dear life. But the state, being the state, never pulls them in out of danger. The state leaves them to dangle over the flame, telling them to obey or be cast in. The weak will always obey, faced with such a predicament. And the thing is, you see, the weak always make up the majority of the population. Therefore, in this way, the weak become the majority, who are actually puppets of the state, and therefore the state can always get what its wants through a well manipulated process of democracy. Considering this, how are people ever to be rid of the corruptions of a state? Because these people, like the moths, cannot comprehend the flame they are flying into. They go to work, pay their taxes, live little lives and don't think any more about it. How is anyone supposed to explain to people, what is beyond their comprehension? How do you keep the moth from flying into the flame? Because also, after this is considered, you have to wonder if you, as an average or above average intelligence, are also like a moth to a flame, in some grander scheme. is earth just the ball sitting in the center of god's snowglobe? Is there actually no god, and no intelligently created universe? Are we even conscious, or simply a mass of intimate objects cooperating, by chance, to produce our experience of life? Because maybe, if there are people who are weak enough to willingly sign up for the state, I myself am too weak to even want to know what the answer is to the grander schemes of life. As far as not violating the NAP while justifying the Fed and government, the principle is explained in the idea of the masses willingly giving themselves to it. For those who do not approve, that's too bad, because power can always be consolidated outside of the NAP, that will always have the potential to agress without concern of retaliation. And as we can see today, it always will.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/19/deez-nuts-rising-polls-9-percent-nc/ I cant stop facepalming long enough to consider the philosophical implications of my country considering these top three candidates. Apparently the actual Deez Nuts is a 15 year old from Iowa who is pro gay marriage and anti immigration. In other news, the DOW closed under 17,000 for the first time from its 18,000 point high a little over a month ago. Nice to see my country's got its priorities in order.

I imagine both categories may fall under the same field. Perhaps an individual who has control of himself has faced so much mistreatment, that he determines some act of violence is warranted. And of course there are those that have some such condition like PTSD for whatever reason, where they seem to have control of themselves until something triggers them. And then again, there could always be someone out there who is completely unable to control themselves, restrained by the watchful eye of a family member perhaps, until that guardian makes a mistake and that individual gets loose and/or ahold of a weapon. That's the thing, they don't become public until its too late. Disregarding what is possible makes as much sense as never having any money saved up, or any food kept at your house. You are going to need these things some time, it is wise to have a buffer zone between you and the next event. As far as deranged individuals are concerned, if there is an entity actively looking to prevent one of these individuals from a traumatic event, it could save the rest of us a lot of time spent, and heartache. Otherwise theres no reason for people like Steph to attempt to talk about things like child abuse, to prevent it.

Child abuse. It happens. Some of us may be lucky enough to get away with none of it. Some may get away with not much, and be able to heal ourselves, finding our way to things like FDR which might help us alleviate symptoms and conditions. And then there are some who are beyond help. Who social workers recognize as not having anything that can be done for them; they are simply irreparably damaged, whether because of brain damage, lengthy conditioning or some other reason. These people tend to stay out of the public eye, and society tends to altogether forget they exist. It's not my problem or responsibility, they may reason. And then they go on living their lives, perhaps going to a movie theater, where they settle in to enjoy themselves right before one of these deranged individuals shoot the place up and kill everyone, the unconcerned libertarian included. I have heard arguments that most of societies problems can be contributed to things like child abuse, and of course Steph himself has striven to discuss its effects on the world. It is unlikely that such a widespread pandemic will ever be solved, however, and it is practical for the common man to consider that he might run into issues with a deranged fellow some day. So with that being the case, who should be responsible to take care of these things? If someone advocates that no one is responsible, that individuals need to take care of themselves when perhaps they are not all capable of it, then they leave open the possibility for being effected by one of these individuals should he ever fly off the handle. If society is responsible for itself concerning this, then there will always be people like Steph speaking to it's detriments, with the masses largely ignoring his wisdom as seen by his constant lack of donations. And then of course, if you expect a private entity to be responsible for your safety, you have the beginnings and makings of a gang and/or state.

There is a lot of turmoil in global markets and currencies right now. People are not sure where they can park their large sums of money without losing it. When a country is in trouble and needs money, the interest rate goes up, like it did with the US during the recession. When a country is sturdy with their finances, it becomes a great place to park your money, and the interest rate goes down. If it's good enough to be the best, the country can afford to charge you to hold your money, here via negative interest rate. You might lose 1% or so of your money by parking it here, but a sure loss of 1% here, is better than putting it somewhere else and perhaps losing 100%.

You absolutely, positively, HAVE to play the game "Monopoly" with your kids. I can remember the first time I played with my family, up unto the point where everyone had all the properties. Once we reached that point, we discussed how then to win the game, and I realized exactly what a "monopoly" meant. It meant this vicious game of wheeling and dealing in order to economically destroy your opponents and eventually control all the properties. Not unlike real life. I remember being a child of 7 or so, reaching this point of the game, and stating "but that's mean!" I understood at that moment exactly what was going on. I was still too young and naive to understand its real life applications. I am glad, however, I eventually put the two together.