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    If you adher to Libertarianism, abortion is not immoral. Rothbard summarizes the position in Ethics of Liberty:
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    I think this is where we disagree on a fundamental level. It is possible that a morality coincides with self-interest. But since those two are not the same, the only way to determine if you act morally or out of self interest is when there is a clash between those two and when you demonstrably act according to ethical principles. Des asked 'Why be moral?' and you replied 'Because it's in our self interest'.
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    When you have self replicating machines, the marginal costs of production will be 0 and the return of investment will be infinite. When this is the case there won't be competition on an industrial level because the starting point and the future development of production is the same. The only way to compete in that society is by offering services and creating hand crafted products.
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    If your personal ethics is based on interests and not on principles you run into problems once the interests are at odds with the principles. You can make a distinction between: Actions that are immoral according to your principles. Actions that align to your principles and that you do out of reflection. Actions that benefit you and that are rooted in your system. Imagine a baker that wants to keep his customers. He doesn't cheat them and offers them the best service possible for the price they pay. But since he doesn't do that because it's the right thing to do it's no different from having no principles at all. A baker adhering to the NAP and praxeology because it benefits him is no different from a baker doing the same actions without any principles because it's the smart thing to do.
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    It's factually correct but the mode of reasoning is not moral. If you do something for personal benefit only you have left the realm of ethics.
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    How is that moral philosophy? That is classical game theory that intelligent Nihilists are likely to adopt.
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    I read a bit of Piketty and I found the book lacking. His theory is too narrow to be of any use. What helped me along was to understand the fundamental principles under which all markets (with banks) operate. Once you understand how money circulates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balances_Mechanicsand how it is created http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2014/qb14q1prereleasemoneycreation.pdf you know more than Piketty and the common professor for economics. Add some MMT to that and you are lightyears ahead
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    Superman is in favour of Capitalism, the Non Aggression Principle and Apple Pie. Doctor Evil wants Communism. I am all for Superman.
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    Or when you put parentheses around a name
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    To Schopenhauer's black pill, there is an iron pill provided by Nietzsche and a non-pill coming from mindfulness meditation. The ultimate test that any philosphy must pass is how to deal with yourself and the world if there is no reason behind it all. Both approaches offer different ways to a solution.
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    It's hard not to see psychotherapy as something dubious when the stated goal of Freud was the 'pussification of the West'.
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    I am pretty sure you are mistaken, Ferssitar http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analytic-synthetic/
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    If your system only has analytic statements in it, it is true by definition if you deduct everything properly. If your system has synthetic statements in it that can be falsified, the perspective changes. It is not true by definition but open to correction by a contrary evidence.
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    What about UPB? If it's analytical, it's a silly word game. If it's synthetic it can be falsified, it defies the claim of universality. If it's a transcendental deduction, you are deep into Kantian territory.
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    Once again, Trump's instincts were right. The judge has strong connections to La Raza which make him ill suited to judge about Trump's activities.
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    Sweden is closer to a freer society because it is a high IQ, high trust society.
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    Pick your idols carefully
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    Holmes is a classical counter puncher.
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    Now that you say it, I realize that the gorilla was clearly a crisis actor. When you pay close attention, you see it's the same gorilla who appears in King Kong and Congo.
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    1/3 apple juice with 2/3 of water and a bit of salt works fine for me.
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    Those critics must be really stupid then, because the critique of Capitalism is that the economic profit for companies goes down close to 0 over time. Economic profit is not the same as accounting profit, though the two are often confused. Accounting profit measures the total profit of a company, whereas economic profit is relative to all investment opportunities in a given time. In areas like supermarkets where you have hard competition you will find that this theory proves to be true. Walmart may have a huge accounting profit, but their EVA is pretty low. They earn a lot of money not because their stores are really profitable but because they have a lot of them. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Value_Added
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    Did they predict the nomination of Trump one year ago?
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    What is it that you want to achieve with these posts?
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    Apsalar, Malazan. Turns from young fishergirl to an assasin. http://malazan.wikia.com/wiki/Apsalar Sergeant Hellian, Malazan. Her strategy of moving from pub to pub allows her unit to survive a war unharmed. http://malazan.wikia.com/wiki/Hellian Moiraine, Wheel of Time. Uses Magic and a bit of swordfight to save the world http://wot.wikia.com/wiki/Moiraine_Damodred Avienda, Wheel of Time. Member of a female warrior class she later becomes a Wise Woman (or tries to) http://wot.wikia.com/wiki/Aviendha
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    The problem with the concept of the fallacy of the stolen concept is that there is dichotomy between logical statements and (abstract) statements about the reality. All planets consist of yoghurt. Mars is a planet. Mars is made of yoghurt. Is a perfectly fine logical statement because the form of the argument is correct. You can derive that mode of reasoning from axioms that you chose to work. If the form of the statement can be derived from the axioms, it is valid. It's material content however is wrong, because the premises are wrong. Planets are not made of yoghurt, apparently. Abstract statements about reality have to be falsifiable if they are to make any sense at all. This implies that there is no final judgment for those statements, simply because you cannot check all instances of that statement. In addition, observation that seem to affirm the abstract the statement don't make it stronger. One observation to the contrary can make the whole statement useless disregarding the numbers of observations prior to it that seemed to have validated it.
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