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I'm not going to bother replying to your entire rant, but the quote above is just amazingly oblivious: [quote user="JAlanKatz"]Then we have some laws, mostly about sacrificing animals, because God, being omnipotent and just, apparently needs animals to eat and wine to drink[/quote] The Jews sacrificed animals, and gave libations of wine
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For political philosophy, Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an easy to understand, well written, and in depth analysis of the errors of Plato (Volume I), and Hegel (Volume II).
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[quote user="Daniel"] There is no good reason to believe that the state could establish and maintain an institutional framework in which the market can function efficiently. [/quote] Then you are oblivious to the world around you. [quote user="Lilburne"] [quote user="laminustacitus"]Without the state, there is no good reason
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[quote user="Daniel"]Did I offend you?[/quote] Why would you offend me? [quote user="liberty student"] [quote user="laminustacitus"]Maybe you should abandon the idea that it is such a self evident fact (or even a fact at all).[/quote] Lam, do you need the state? [/quote] To flourish in a material sense, I need the state
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[quote user="Daniel"] [quote user="laminustacitus"] [quote user="TelfordUS"]Whenever I try to explain that the state isn't needed to a statist colleague, he just grins and chuckles, and I'm called a "silly radical" and such, like I'm an idiot.[/quote] Maybe you should abandon the idea that it is such
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[quote user="TelfordUS"]Whenever I try to explain that the state isn't needed to a statist colleague, he just grins and chuckles, and I'm called a "silly radical" and such, like I'm an idiot.[/quote] Maybe you should abandon the idea that it is such a self evident fact (or even a fact at all).
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In A Theory of Justice , John Rawls elucidates a theory of justice that holds two basic principles of justice: 1. each individual is to have equal liberties in a scheme that enables the greatest amount of liberty without encroaching on those of others, and 2. social, and economic advantages are to be organized to the advantage of everyone while being
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[quote user="K.C. Farmer"]The measures taken to fight the Barbary pirates circumvented the Constitution[/quote] I wonder how you would substantiate this claim.
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[quote user="Esuric"]There's no historical backing for this claim whatsoever. You need to distinguish between money substitutes and actual money; paper never became actual money on its own. Paper became money by decree, by force, by government coercion.[/quote] The very fact that the confiscation of domestic American gold in the 1930s
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[quote user="ThomasC"] In order to persuade these people, it's not enough for libertarians to show them that Libertarianism is superior in logic, but also that a free society allows them to find individual meaning. [/quote] Why does one need libertarianism to find "individual meaning", nor should libertarianism become a political