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Sure. But life is fraught with risks. If we always took the course of action that minimizes risk of injury or death would never do any of the things that make life worth living. Where to draw the line, and to balance the trade off between risk and pleasure is a choice that every individual...

Nothing at all wrong with being grateful. Everything wrong with forcing people to do certain things against their will under the threat of imprisonment and murder.

No one owes society anything. The only way you can accrue a debt is by agreeing to do so. This is something almost everyone acknowledges routinely, except in the case of the mythical "social contract" where people have been conditioned to make a hypocritical, nonsensical exception. Those in...

This is a disturbing view. People are not slaves owned by the government or by "society." They have no duty to be productive.

I'm not playing devils advocate. Obviously I do think roads (along with everything) should be privatized, but given that they are not, the helmet laws make sense. However, if people want to ride bikes without a helmet on their own property, then obviously I don't think the government should...

Regrettably I have to take the side of the GOVERNMENT here. While they should have no right to force people to wear helmets on PRIVATE roads, on public roads it is perfectly legitimately (once you overlook the illegitimacy of public ownership itself, which is unlikely to be resolved in the near...

Without getting into the whole "taxes is theft thing," lets assume taxation is legitimate. Even so, if you are being taxed more than your competitors this will have a punitive effective. Oh right, how stupid of me to think that you might actually care that people could loose their livelihood...

A tax on the wholesalers still hurts small business. If you tax cheese for instance, the local pizza shop now has to pay more for it and either increase it's price (and thus loose sales) or slash its margins.

He's right Keiran. If vegetable soup isn't healthy, what is? Also, what are we arguing about. Enough of this.

Are you playing it up, or are you really that drug fucked?

Not everyone could necessarily be working extra hours instead of cooking. The point is they consider it like work, so they are happy to pay more and consider it better value than cooking themselves. People on shoestring budgets do indeed eat out alot. Time and time again studies show that poor...

But most people don't consider sitting around at a restaurant a chore, whereas many people do consider cooking and washing up to be unpleasant work. You may like it, good for you, many don't. People are generally happy to pay others to do work they don't like or are inefficient at. It's like...

Because if you used that time to work, you could make money. Most people do not feel like cooking a meal after a long day's work, and are happy to pay a few extra dollars. If they purchase poor quality, unhealthy food like McDonalds, it will almost certainly be more expensive than a healthier...

Exactly, if we're comparing raw ingredients look at how cheap a litre of vegetable oil is. It has many times the energy content of 1kg of carrots for a similar price.

Yeah he said per calorie, not per gram. How much energy does 1 kilo of carrots have? Also in developed countries even the "poor" can generally afford fast food. It also saves so much time compared to cooking your self. If you pay yourself $10 an hour for the opportunity cost of preparing food...

Okay, fair enough, the FTA is a poor example that doesn't prove anything either way. This makes no sense at all. How do you define profitable? If the industry can't compete without protectionism, in what sense is it profitable at all? The only reason manufacturing is often though of as being...

Who is to say cow is any better than seagull? There already are such laws in place. Your ridiculous (but amusing) suggestion that seagull meat would be made to look like beef would in fact be illegal, it would have to be labeled as seagull. Many people are very health conscious and this is a...

O'Keefe is awesome. The show would just be boring without his cheesy antics. He is just an actor playing a role, and he does it well.-

Look at the free trade agreement between Australia and the USA then. The USA is by far the dominant nation, yet Australia agreed to the agreement and has benefited as a result. In fact, Australian growth has far surpassed US growth in recent years. Protectionism is only a good idea for those...

There are many examples of protectionism being reigned in, and in almost every case it has been strongly correlated with economic growth, China is a perfect recent example, but you could just as easily look at the same process in Australia, Europe, The United States or the former USSR...