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Yeah modern mediicine is great. Do you have a response?

So? Policy makers and scientists are not claiming to make a morality pill. Mental illness is a real problem, and sometimes drugs are the only things that can help. For example people with anxiety disorders can be crippled in many aspects of their life. They may be unable to drive a car, or may be unable to concentrate unless they satisfy a compulsion. They may obsess over details that are irrelevant. I have known people with OCD, and it is a terrible mental illness, not relate to moral character. Treatment through mental and verbal exercise can take years to have positive effects, where as certain drugs can help alleviate symptoms quickly so that the person may function.

It can be linked? Do you even have anything to back up this claim?? If you had sophisiticaed enough technology you could probably do a lot of things to the brain, and thus effect the mind. However this would require very advanced technology. As Euiol pointed out, you seem to be under the impression that we are living in a brave new world type dystopia. However, no one is implementing drugs as a form of social control. The only problem is that there are poor incentive structures when it comes to selling drugs.

I just love that you are either a pretentious immature weirdo or you are not really an Objectivist.If I said anything siimilar about any other group of people with a belief system, I would be called prejudiced. For sure I was this kid in highschool, but I grew out of that and I am muhch more an Objectivist now than I ever was then. What upsets me the most is that they blame us for their systems fault. Liberals and centrists support international finance, bank bailouts, corporate welfare, and subsidies. The neo-liberal system is the system of the liberals, not free marketers. If they want to know where poverty is coming from they should look at their own damn president.

I think it just comes down to wanting to show skin in weird places and still look natural. Like if a girl wants to wear pants and still show some of herself off then she could have torn jeans instead of making a crazy new kind of pants.

Oh that. Well I don't think it is a matter of philosophy. Drug companies want to sell drugs and will enlist whoever they can to help them do that. It has nothing to do with determinism.

Who ever wrote that paper should be fired. Those quotes sound like undergrad writing. “While liberal worldviews are future- or progressive -oriented, conservative perspectives are more past-oriented, and in general, are interested in preserving the status quo.” the report says. “The far right represents a more extreme version of conservatism, as its political vision is usually justified by the aspiration to restore or preserve values and practices that are part of the idealized historical heritage of the nation or ethnic community.” Did they read this in their sixth grade social studies book? There are plenty of futurist right wingers. Heinlein is a famous libertarian and futurist, who most likely is an inspiration to many people who are part of this anti-federal tendancy. On the other hand, most liberals can't even consider ideas like Transhumanism without a megative or dismissive reaction.

What are you basing this off of? I doubt anyone in the government does this.

Well if it is possible the criminally insane could be made to work towards paying for their own treatments. In its own weird way this could end up being part of their treatment. I do think that prisoners who have commited violent crimes should attempt to pay for their own livelyhood. No one is arguing your straw man though.

That is pretty messed up. It reminds me of this story that has been on ESPN all day. http://www.mercurynews.com/college-sports/ci_22396754/wilner-notre-dames-manti-teo-dead-girlfriend-hoax

It wouldn't matter to anyone if it was proven to be unchosen. They would just be sent to a differenent kind or prison. Just because a condition is unchosen, that does not mean that the unchosen attribute needs to be tolerated. I don't tolerate certain animals despite their lack of choice in their ways. I could easily see pedophilia as a neurological problem of sorts, and maybe things coudl be done to repress it. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be jailed for their crimes.

I wonder why he is so apologetic in tone, whereas his monologues and their titles are not.

Your secenario is unrealistic. If that many people were dissatisfied with the school system people would abolish them through electoral politics. Even the, it would be unlikely that state governors would ever allow things to get that bad. They would most likely do mass lay offs abolish teachers unions, and subsidize alternative forms of education before this would happen. This is basically what is starting to happen already.

Couldn't we have a poll tax instead? I don't want taxes at all in the government, so maybe a good way to fund the government is a yearly voting fee of sorts. I don't see how any of these ideas could ever be implimented though. Too many people would oppose them.

We need people to stop worshipping teachers before we can deal with this problem. I would say there isn't anything that can be done but to run a long term propaganda campaign making the school system and teachers look terrible. After that you can start explaining what everyone is already observing. After that a move can be made towards abolishing it. There are some seconday ways in which this issue can be fixed however. For one the spread of good values and ideas is gernerally a good things. A reduction in unwanted children would be good also. If most parents actually cared about there children in the way they should, the school system would quickly be seen as an enemy and not as free day care. So encouraging rational parenting and sex practices.

Sounds like a stupid publicity stunt. It doesn't really have anything to do with Ayn Rand. As if Ayn Rand was the only person who had ever concieved of going separate ways with society.

I don't get it. So is he just going to go on stage and rant about shit he read about on the internet? Honestly... You can find that stuff for free on youtube.

I have never heard of any of these movies. I don't think it matters of there are a lot of nihiilists in LA. The movies that are popular with audiences tend not to be nihilistic. Seven Samurai, 12 Angry Men, and Singing in The Rain are the movies I have actually watched from the 1950s. The 1960s featured Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather, and Dr Zhivago as great works to be remembered. I think the stupidest movie from that era that anyone remembers was "Rebel Wihout a Cause". So like one nihilistic film, that I only watched because it was on netflix. Only weird people like nihilistic films.

If lyinhg for some reason is the only way for you to live through a situation, then do it. I can only imagine this would be the case if you were living in a community that would ostracize you if some fact about you was discovered, and that the ostracizations would cause your death. So if you are a homosexual in a 16th cenutry New England community, sure. However, this is only the case because the consequences for not liying are worse than the consequences for lying. There are still consequences, and it will be a burden on the person who has to do it . .

I like her.

I have been watching this video more fully now. Anyone who wants a good laugh should go to the 42 minute mark . The financialization idea is hilarious. One of the commentators claims that because finance has entered into so much of our lives, that this means that we have lost vision of the future. That is the opposite of the case. Finance coordinates the allocation of resources across time. The monetary and financial institutions that currently exist are corrupt, but they still attempt to perform this function. He is upset that people, and those in power, have to rationally assess their long term goals. He most likely wants to abolish currency altogehter, saving that, he wants credit to be free. Either way, he doesn't want to rationally asess long term projects in terms of resources and profitablility. He wants to asess them by his desires. The only reason there are any crises in the first place is because our financial institutions are corrupt, not because they are prevalent. It is ironic when he claims that finance causes us to live in a permanent present. However finance is what creates the future. Anarchism has mo mechanism for technological innovation or for coordinatiing long term investments. The demonstrators are so pathetic. If we look at examples like spanish socialist revolution in the interwar period, the socialist movements in the Arab world, or the socialist revolutions in central america, we see a pattern of socialists being incapable of achieveing anything. In order to acheve success, socialists align themselves with dangerous militants. In the end these militants end up betraying them and taking power for themselves becaues the miilitants are stronger and more cunning. True socialists are so altrusitic, and detatched from the world, they are incapbale of interacting with it without the aid of others. They should follow in the footsteps of Christ and give up this earth to the wicked and saves themselves some time.

I don't think I can commit to watching this. I would however like to point out something. The far left loves to take whatever currenty events are happening and turn them into a sign that the system is failing. If the internet were around in the 1960s, I can imagine a radical leftists saying something similar. Corporations rule everything, people are brainwashed, and we are on the brink of sociological, ecological, and economic disaster. We will soon all be living in a william gibson novel. Well here is the thing. They have been saying this for 200 years and things have basically improved. http://www.philosoph...2012-12-30.html http://www.ted.com/t...f_violence.html http://mises.org/com...ms/t/15824.aspx Yes, the United States is a plutocracy. Corporations, along with other interest groups, form and support voting blocks that enhance their business practices. This isn't new. This was the intention of some our founding fathers. To be honest though, the plutocratic system is in power for a reason. It actually works a lot better than what these hippies can imagine. This country has real problems, like the drug war and the abuse of sex workers. This video is just irresponsible. I am not threatened by this. I hope they follow in the footsteps of Christian Anarchists, so they can become irrelevant and starved. I feel like I have watched this movie before, because, in general, most leftist movies do the same thing. They quote pundits and idealogs, and then they flash headlines (wihtout context or followup). This video reminds me a lot of Zeitgeist actually, although Zeitgeist advocated technocratic communism (Star Trek) , and this is more of a green anarchism.

I didn't mean to imply that. I just think the end to the piracy problem will start with the establishment of a nation state in somalia, They live under feudalism, piracy is directly caused by that. You could just kil every pirate you see also, which is fine, but I am not sure how much that will solve.

Although a good deal of what KD says has basis in reality, I get irritated with the sexist presentation. Maybe he talks this way because it is geared towards younger guys. When he says "Women Want" or "Women Need" I immediately ask "Is this a reasonable generalization" "Does this just apply to women, or to both sexes?" In the end KD makes women sound really neurotic and codependent.

Somalia is such a mess. Those people have no concept of property rights, which resulted in overfishing, polution, and exploitation by European, Asian, and African criminals.