I would respond to this in the same vein as Lolsmith
If you are using a computer then you are benefiting from the fruits of competition
If you drive a car, ride on a bus, boat or in a plane, you are benefiting from the fruits of competition
When you buy your fair trade coffee you are...
Of course life is (or ought to be) an ‘us versus them’ affair. Competition for scarce resources, wealth and/or privilege is one of the drivers of modern human progress. The world we live in today was not a product of a bunch of people sitting around in some feel-good fantasy, singing Kumbuya...
Good effort as usual Sylvester but I think you misread your interlocutor on the Stalin point:
Obviously, however, the point he was making was still complete shit, unless of course one considers the starvation and deaths of tens of millions of people to be an increase in the overall 'standard...
this whole issue is fucking simple as the following:
the required funds can be obtained either by cutting government spending or increasing revenue;
cutting spending > increasing revenue
the issue is fucking resolved
that makes no sense whatsoever
one of the preconditions of a state, minarchist or not, is that it is a sovereign entity you retard. this means territorial integrity and supreme authority within that territory.
otherwise, how could it be expected to uphold rights and liberties at all? if it had...
firstly 'minarchist' societies still retain a minimal state so yes there would still be such a thing as state sovereignty
and secondly, police officers are not protected by sovereign immunity; they are protected by 'statutory authority' only when it applies
different concepts guvna
I will concede that 'the state' does possess the power to make laws that are detrimental to civil liberties and often does.
Problems are encountered, however, by adhering too closely to 'the state' as a single homogenous entity. By separating the state into the lawmakers (parliament)...
hi you have clearly never read a newspaper or law report in your life.
this came from the sun herald despite odd web link:
Police ordered to pay $55,000 for wrongful arrest - Investment News
your bullshit assertion is therefore disproven
just to clarify my position, i obviously don't...
yes police enforce laws (or at least purport to) but ultimately it is the courts who uphold laws.
Policemen and women are generally not the sharpest tools in the shed and can let prejudices and personal feelings get in the way of doing their job properly. That being said my dad is an ex-cop...
what about a healthy justice system that respects and upholds individual sovereignty?
and before you say it a judiciary that is in bed with the cops is a corrupt one and doesn't count