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  • Why The State Can't Discriminate

    My position on racial discrimination and segregation is essentially based on the following premises: (1) on a personal level, I'm opposed to racism (2) however, if an individual legitimately owns a given piece of property, they have the liberty to exclude other people from using that property (3...
    Posted to Brainpolice (Weblog) by Brainpolice on Mon, May 12 2008
  • Why government wants ignorance

    By no means is finding someone to espouse the greatness of universal literacy a chore, especially among politicians. Yet for all of their pandering, these very politicians would never desire for people to be literate on one subject matter: government itself. If the public were ever clued into the innerworkings...
    Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms (Weblog) by thedo on Fri, Apr 18 2008
  • Re: Voucher Systems in Education?

    I am more for tuition tax credits. It is less egalitarian and more pro freedom. It reduces ones tax burden, without giving "free money" to a person who doesn't have it. This may have been discussed already, sorry if I am repeating things.
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by jamesjwilsonsr on Thu, Mar 6 2008
  • Notes from my classes

    Within my study of technical communication I rarely encounter economic and philosophic ideas. But every once in a while some come along, especially because the current topic in my lone rhetoric class is laissez faire capitalism. So here are a few I encountered today. Copyright laws, or intellectual property...
    Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms (Weblog) by thedo on Wed, Feb 13 2008
  • Re: Libertarian Perspective on Education

    In a utopian libertarian world, there would be no mandated taxes, hence one would be able to spend the money on anything they wish, including private education. The voucher system is used to recoup mandated taxes that would have gone to "public" education so one would be able to use it for...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by ViennaSausage on Tue, Feb 12 2008
  • Libertarian Perspective on Education

    Do either utilitarians or natural rights libertarians have any justification for public education (through the voucher system, of course)? If so, then why. It seems to me that public education is simply another socialist mechanism.
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by miksirhc on Tue, Feb 12 2008
  • Basic Human Rights

    Is education a basic human right? healthcare?
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by ViennaSausage on Tue, Feb 12 2008
  • How The State Thrives, How The State Falls

    Foreward note: inspired in part by "The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by Eteinne De La Boetie . How the State Thrives How does the state maintain itself? It is true that to some extent all states initially derive from conquest through devices such as war and land...
    Posted to Brainpolice (Weblog) by Brainpolice on Sat, Dec 15 2007
  • Democracy in a democracy

    Two Ohio legislators are proposing a law that would ban corporal punishment in public schools. Ignore all the issues revolving around the evils of public education and the practice of corporal punishment, instead let's focus on who is proposing the law v. who must obey it. In Ohio during the 1990's...
    Posted to JFedako (Weblog) by JFedako on Tue, Dec 4 2007
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