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That is nonsense. Your entire life is built upon the shoulders of those who came before you. The words you type here are products of your society. The machine you type them on are a product of your society. Without society you are almost certainly dead. You are part of it, take advantage of it, suck off its teat, and it is not free.
The nonsense here is that you are giving society credit for the work of individuals.
Really. What individual invented english? You really should make an effort if you want to talk with the adults.
The nonsense here is that you are giving society credit for the work of individuals.
Really. What individual invented english? You really should make an effort if you want to talk with the adults.
What society invented English?.
Really. What individual invented english? You really should make an effort if you want to talk with the adults.
What society invented English?.
No individual or society "invented" English.
...be outlawed.
True.
It's the appropriate response to a nonsense comment of yours.
Your libertarian philosophy is nothing more than a screen for "I don't want to pay taxes."
No respect for liberts, for sure.
Sometimes it is difficult for people to admit/see that certain personal freedoms cause societal harm. Legalizing all drugs for instance, would be very detrimental to society.
Sometimes it is difficult for people to admit/see that certain personal freedoms cause societal harm. Legalizing all drugs for instance, would be very detrimental to society.
Why? Please explain. Do you believe everyone would start using all illegal drugs if they were made legal?
Sometimes it is difficult for people to admit/see that certain personal freedoms cause societal harm. Legalizing all drugs for instance, would be very detrimental to society.
Why? Please explain. Do you believe everyone would start using all illegal drugs if they were made legal?
Sometimes it is difficult for people to admit/see that certain personal freedoms cause societal harm. Legalizing all drugs for instance, would be very detrimental to society.
Why? Please explain. Do you believe everyone would start using all illegal drugs if they were made legal?
Sometimes it is difficult for people to admit/see that certain personal freedoms cause societal harm. Legalizing all drugs for instance, would be very detrimental to society.
Why? Please explain. Do you believe everyone would start using all illegal drugs if they were made legal?
Maybe the only thing keeping him from being an addict is the fact that he is too stupid to get the drugs from the guy on the corner.
Saying there is no society, only individuals is rather like saying there are no automobiles, only a collection of parts.
Objectivist libertarianism is an idiotic philosophy precisely because its founding principle (there is no such thing as society) is demonstrably idiotic.
Saying there is no society, only individuals is rather like saying there are no automobiles, only a collection of parts.
Objectivist libertarianism is an idiotic philosophy precisely because its founding principle (there is no such thing as society) is demonstrably idiotic.
Saying there is no society, only individuals is rather like saying there are no automobiles, only a collection of parts.
Objectivist libertarianism is an idiotic philosophy precisely because its founding principle (there is no such thing as society) is demonstrably idiotic.
There isn't. Shall I demonstrate your idiocy?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss]Alone in the Wilderness - YouTube[/ame]
Statism makes slaves, serve your master. Why should I bother with you?
Saying there is no society, only individuals is rather like saying there are no automobiles, only a collection of parts.
Objectivist libertarianism is an idiotic philosophy precisely because its founding principle (there is no such thing as society) is demonstrably idiotic.
There isn't. Shall I demonstrate your idiocy?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss]Alone in the Wilderness - YouTube[/ame]
Statism makes slaves, serve your master. Why should I bother with you?
Mister Beal.
Your man alone in the wilderness in no way proves that society does not exist.
And one cannot help but wonder if your man in the wildnesss is surviving without the tools he brought with him from the society he abandoned?
Did he go into that wildnesss without tools, without education (he got while a member of society) ?
Even if he did (we both know he did not) that still would not refute the concept of society as something that truly exists.
That solitary hermit sprang from a society, and he took with him, many of the skills and talents he learned as a member of that society, too.
Perhaps at this point it would be instructive here to go back to the original question then. . . .Mister Beal.
Your man alone in the wilderness in no way proves that society does not exist.
And one cannot help but wonder if your man in the wildnesss is surviving without the tools he brought with him from the society he abandoned?
Did he go into that wildnesss without tools, without education (he got while a member of society) ?
Even if he did (we both know he did not) that still would not refute the concept of society as something that truly exists.
That solitary hermit sprang from a society, and he took with him, many of the skills and talents he learned as a member of that society, too.
True or false: any personal freedom that brings harm to society in general should...
...be outlawed.
True.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and
call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when
you are richest. The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant,
thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is
reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from
the rich mans abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the
spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,
and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The towns poor seem
to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they
are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think
that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener
happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest
means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty
like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get
new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them.
Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your
thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. If I were confined
to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world
would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
The philosopher said: From an army of three divisions one can
take away its general, and put it in disorder; from the man the most
abject and vulgar one cannot take away his thought. Do not seek
so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences
to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness
reveals the heavenly lights. The shadows of poverty and meanness
gather around us, and lo! creation widens to our view. We are
often reminded that if there were bestowed on us the wealth of
Croesus, our aims must still be the same, and our means essentially
the same. Moreover, if you are restricted in your range by poverty, if
you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but
confined to the most significant and vital experiences; you are compelled
to deal with the material which yields the most sugar and the
most starch. It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. You are
defended from being a trifler. No man loses ever on a lower level by
magnanimity on a higher. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities
only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
