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eljagg01 (January 8, 2009 at 7:06 am)

Not on modern factory farms.

SansAuthoritas (January 7, 2009 at 2:23 am)

Neil, property is only yours if it was previously unclaimed/unutilized. If I am able to productively farm on a piece of otherwise unused land, it's mine.

mikeyooh7 (January 2, 2009 at 1:12 am)

The value of your labor can only be determined by you, thus the value of the goods you buy are determined by you. When you work you realize the value of your labor, or you dont work. The goods you buy reflect the amount of labor it takes you to purchase those goods.

zambizzi (December 29, 2008 at 5:59 am)

All societies run on an economy of some sort. Exchange of goods and services is the very basis of civilization itself. All economies are based on redistribution. Material goods are distributed from one party to the next. The method of how *best* to do this is the only question left. What is the most efficient, stable, fair, and compassionate method to do this? Free, uninhibited Capitalism is the answer to that question. Why? Because it is VOLUNTARY between you and the other party.

neilwe (December 29, 2008 at 4:28 am)

And where does it come from originally? Eventually if you go back far enough you'll find that, whatever it is, both the property you are purchasing and the means by which you are purchasing it derive from a theft of some sort. The notion that most property is the outcome of your labour is also pure bullshit. Most of your property is either the product of another person's labour or inheritence. This is partly because the money you earn is completely disproportionate to the labour you contribute

wenaolong (December 27, 2008 at 12:00 pm)

Wanton cruelty and being killed and eaten are two different things.

NecroButcher91 (December 27, 2008 at 2:00 am)

Jean Jacque Rousseau thought that although animals don't possess the faculty of reason, they do share with humans an ability to empathize with the suffering of others, often regardless of species. And based on this common faculty, he thought the beasts deserve to be protected from wanton cruelty.

playgrrrr (December 22, 2008 at 9:03 am)

i was hoping that this was more about the philosophical view, but it turns out it is only a "how it applies" aka freedom for dummmies guide. nothing new for me. maybe someone else learns something from it.

joezep37 (December 22, 2008 at 3:45 am)

wake up america is a fallacy, u want the dirt go to the french revolution, all mans inherient flaws layed out, all philosophical questions were answered and it wasnt the answer we wanted. hoffel at your peril my good friend!

zambizzi (December 22, 2008 at 3:39 am)

Uhhh....WHAT?

joezep37 (December 22, 2008 at 3:35 am)

dont f-ing hoffel!

zambizzi (December 20, 2008 at 4:13 am)

This is brilliant - yet so many people disregard nearly all of it. Why do humans tolerate being slaves? Why do we do it!? You would think this is just common sense and that occurrences like the American Revolution would be commonplace or - an exception to the rule because people simply would not tolerate tyranny long enough for it to become that big of a problem.

zambizzi (December 20, 2008 at 4:11 am)

Based on what facts, exactly? Most "property" is the outcome of your labor. You earn money and spend it on property which you (should) then own. But for the sake of argument, what about it? It was given to you voluntarily by a progenitor or benefactor of some sort. It's a voluntary form of exchange between you and another party. No one else has a right or claim to it.

MnoruS (December 3, 2008 at 3:21 pm)

People's owning of inherited property upholds and is in keeping with the wishes of the former owner of the property.

meinperpetualmotion (December 3, 2008 at 3:52 am)

What about inherited property? Most property is inherited.

quicktechhelp (November 30, 2008 at 11:22 pm)

5 Stars

apopheniacMCMLXXXIX (November 25, 2008 at 4:27 am)

There are a lot of cooks and conspiritards who call themselves libertarians and I hate it. I simply believe that people should live their lives doing whatever they want as long as they don't keep others from doing the same (libertarianism in a nutshell). I don't see how this idea has anything to do with wacky conspiracy theories and paranoid delusions, but in so many peoples minds, they're apparently linked. It pisses me off like very few other things do.

cmblack (November 25, 2008 at 3:34 am)

I feel this way too. I'm a libertarian. I'm not a "truther" or a Paulbot or a pothead or anything else that has spoiled libertarian philosophy. I tire of people who call themselves libertarians just because they want to smoke pot legally without knowing anything about what liberty really is.

apopheniacMCMLXXXIX (November 12, 2008 at 11:56 pm)

in my first post I made a typo. I meant to say "self-righteous" rather than "self-right". I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

apopheniacMCMLXXXIX (November 12, 2008 at 11:54 pm)

One thing that I am rather disappointed with, though, is the apparent abundance of libertarians who are also insane conspiritards. I'm sick of people assuming I'm either a right-wing nutjob or a conspiracy theorist lunatic when I say that I'm a Libertarian. So to all you conspiritard libertarians: STOP AGREEING WITH ME.

apopheniacMCMLXXXIX (November 12, 2008 at 11:51 pm)

BRAVO! Excellent video! I liked the whole thing, but the part about the "marketplace of values" is something that I've always said and ditto at "intellectual sloth". :)

I've noticed so often that when I talk to Libertarians, I find that I have reached the same conclusions as them but in isolation from them. Does it make me a narcissistic, self-right prick to say "great minds think alike"? It probably does, but it's probably also true...

RevolutionaryJam (November 7, 2008 at 11:54 am)

i know what they're for but I don't agree that the market always provides the best incentives, I think what is incentivised and what is decentivised should be decided by those affected by it to the extent that they are affected by it, not necessarily the market, i wouldn't go as far to say i'm a market abolishionist but if you look what it does to things like art and architecture you see some of it's pitfalls,i don't see why old aged pensioners should have to pay to take the bus etc.

firebladetim (November 7, 2008 at 4:45 am)

Interest, rent, and dividends are incentives to invest capital so that others may use them to increase their own (and everyone's) well-being. If there was no government to lobby for special favors, then this would be much clearer.

xXShiunXx (November 2, 2008 at 4:32 am)

this is "nurturing" in the way to become a free and openminded human being, imo.

peace, love and understanding.

G

wenaolong (October 19, 2008 at 3:59 pm)

Perhaps, you only meant to stimulate thought. In that case, let this act as a stimulant for your thought: What do YOU eat in order to live? EVERYTHING alive EATS something, and that something may or may not be alive in any definition, and unless you are ominiscient, perhaps even plankton are sentient. We are talking about a commodity that belongs ONLY to rationally deliberate beings, and it is not the physical consequences that matter most, but the psychospiritul ones they are attached to..