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And that's why the quotes came included. M3 was is in a way like this piece of news. It could exopose matters that ought not be of... concern :mischief: Let's just say it's impractical to print out 30K tonnes of paper.

In older news, the US Fed stopped printing M3 How many more "tonnes" went missing, one would wonder...

Thank you all for your good feedback. Yes, but we are talking about human beings here. We can go into animal rights, but maybe in another thread. I will use the third post to add definitions as we move along. By "connected" I mean the capacity to understand reality and to manipulate it...

Don't get carried away there. Property rights are an issue worth discussing. I'm just wondering if you have some objectives so far. I'm picking this route because there are a lot of topics involved and the discussion can quickly degenerate into parallels.

JericoHill, I'm saying that there is no such thing as a living, breathing collective. All purposes are individual, all action is performed by individuals. The only coherent manner of saying: "We must promote the public good" is to allow individuals to express their own values, the "good" for...

OK, thread started.

Operational definitions: Reason: the capacity to connect causes and effects. Rational person: an entity capable of reason.

I understand Market Anarchy (MA) as follows: In short, a stateless society based on free exchange (and implicitly property rights). As this thread progresses, I will expose my arguments for my case (and synthetizing them at the top of the thread). I aim to prove that this system is...

I think we can do better than that. Without further ado, these are my starting assumptions: 1. Only individuals act, think and reason. No other entity can be said to, independently. All collective action, to make sense, must be reduced to actions of individuals. If it cannot, we cannot...

Cata, there is always Mircea Eliade's "History of Religious Ideas" or "Istoria religiilor". You should find it in a decent book store.

A small piece of advice: Don't jump into Linux head-first without some assistance. It can ruin your experience. While it's not hard to configure, there are always these small quirks that turn you off (I've had issues with copy-paste, quite a number of audio problems, 3d acceleration, ...)...

You're quite right, Aytollah. Expect a thread on this very soon.

In what way?

Sharpe, that's not such a good poll, IMO. It's always easier to give away money that aren't yours.

As taxes increase, the incentives to produce diminish. This also couples with price controls (which caused massive shortages) and inflation (that eventually wrecked the monetary economy). All these measures can have a significant effect on the taxes collected. As the article I quoted...