tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post5518342898251901261..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The Problem Presented by Principle bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-45800526865908976522014-03-27T13:57:43.043-07:002014-03-27T13:57:43.043-07:00mava.
I could write 1000 words to address your se...mava.<br /><br />I could write 1000 words to address your several points. I have probably already written 100,000....<br /><br />I will only suggest the following:<br /><br />1) Libertarian = NAP, nothing more - but also nothing less.<br />2) Interim steps are acceptable, as long as the ultimate objectives are kept in focus.<br />3) List for me all of the people successful at rolling back the state through compromise. Identify the major rollbacks achieved by these individuals.<br />4) You assume much when you state that I married a woman.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-61666537171539843312014-03-26T22:28:59.254-07:002014-03-26T22:28:59.254-07:00Some are choosing to allow the compromise to occur...Some are choosing to allow the compromise to occur, because at some point they understand that the reason that the principled ones will never win, lies not in them (the principled ones), but in the people that follow them.<br /><br />And such reason is one and the same with their nature, which is the lack of desire for perfection. (In most cases, even, it is just plainly the lack of desire for anything but only a shape devoid of any substance).<br /><br />If this can not ever be changed, not unless the weak are to be discarded at birth, so as to restart the natural selection, so, then why associate with someone who will never, ever succeed? If the reason for their failure is not within themselves, then there is no hope for their cause.<br /><br />The choice becomes then this: Win less now, or die waiting. This is the question most of us face everyday, even if we do not notice it.<br /><br />Bionic Mosquito, with all due respect, did you marry an earthly woman or an absolute perfection?mavahttp://m.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-82019908091453369412014-03-25T03:19:04.267-07:002014-03-25T03:19:04.267-07:00James, in my only post specifically regarding Tuck...James, in my only post specifically regarding Tucker's article, I spent all of fifty words. This post was to expand on something from the comments from the first - yet even this post was one of my shorter ones.<br /><br />In any case, you need not concern yourself with how I spend my time.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-64972897864331103932014-03-24T16:35:33.865-07:002014-03-24T16:35:33.865-07:00Less defensive James? I consider nearly everything...Less defensive James? I consider nearly everything that Jeffery Tucker has published to be a boon to mankind. Yet, the ultimate results of his efforts remain to be seen. I disagree completely with evictionism. Yet I consider Walter Block to be a rock solid (though inadvertent) ally, and one of the most powerful forces against the brutality and stupidity of the modern world. Personally I consider it immoral to pay taxes to the federal gov., because they are using your money to kill innocents, most of them unborn. If I ever get a real job again, that will mean that I am immoral, like the rest of you. But you won't find me yelling that at many cocktail parties.<br />The gay rights movement obviously started as gays wanting to be treated as people. And just as obviously has been coopted by others for other agendas. Just as many others have been and will be twisted by statists of every stripe, and their plutocratic handlers.<br />We can think of libertarians as enlightened, but that does not make it so. It certainly does not make them well informed, on every subject. Doesn't make them nice either.<br />taxesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-65334103433182172612014-03-24T10:43:45.908-07:002014-03-24T10:43:45.908-07:00Well, because he wanted to write an article and ta...Well, because he wanted to write an article and talk about the topic at length, of course. People write all kinds of articles for a many different reasons for an infinity of kinds of readers. Its what writers do.<br />Now assuming we agree on the lack of some kind of ulterior motive to "purge" at least Rothbard and Hoppe for certain in particular, if you felt that it was simply a pointless article, thousands of words too long, then why are you giving it so much weight? Why did you not simply pass it by without a waste of your efforts? Considering your Herculean research efforts and writing, this seems an odd nit to pick.<br /><br />This is what is confusing me. I just don't see why this is such a big deal.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-36690881203917080282014-03-24T10:26:15.005-07:002014-03-24T10:26:15.005-07:00So he is attacking libertarians who also hold spec...So he is attacking libertarians who also hold specific moral views? As I wrote in my first post, some libertarians are not nice people. All I did was save people 2300 words to find this out, as if we didn't already know. What does not being nice have to do with libertarianism? Why connect the two? Just say some people are not nice people. That would have saved 2340 words.<br /><br />Holding a view of non-aggression is also a moral view. Shall we see a new post about the brutality of this moral position?<br />bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-25681350818695455792014-03-24T10:09:08.896-07:002014-03-24T10:09:08.896-07:00[My error for posting it as a reply to the anonymo...[My error for posting it as a reply to the anonymous commentator. It was intended as a new comment for the post.]Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-28679298198090190422014-03-24T10:03:52.848-07:002014-03-24T10:03:52.848-07:00This furor over someone's article expressing a...This furor over someone's article expressing an opinion about who he would prefer to associate with is more than a little irritating. If his distinction between "brutalist" and "humanitarian" is flimsy, well, it really doesn't matter, because there is no accounting for taste. He is expressing a personal opinion on human character. He does not deny that brutalist libertarians are still indeed libertarian. Nowhere anywhere in his writing have I seen any indication of him abandoning in any way the fundamentals, eg. NAP, right to property, right to discriminate, the indisputable rightness of the free market agora.<br /> <br />He seems to see a distinction in motivations, he has a definite preference for one, and he would like to express it. All these assertions of a "purge" of Rothbard and Rockwell and Hoppe et al are just that. You are the one filling in the blanks with particulars. He explicitly states in a reply to a commenter that he does not number Rothbard and Hoppe among the "brutalist" ranks (two figures who suffer some of the worst hostilities by wretched slanderers). (And even IF that was the case, Tucker is certainly in no position to effect a real "purge" of someone of Rothbard's or Rockwell's (well deserved) awesome stature.)<br /> <br />Based on many of my in-person interactions with some libertarians, I am compelled to relate to what he is talking about. On more than a couple of occasions I have had to roll my eyes and wipe my hands and move on never to return, because I simply don't have the patience to listen to even occasional outbursts on the "faggot agenda" and reflections on the inability of "lesser peoples" to understand and thrive under libertarian principles. (Note well, I do not include anyone of this blog, writers or commentators, in that group.)<br /> <br />In other words, he isn't attacking you or your heroes (whom he happens to share anyway), nor is he attacking libertarianism qua libertarianism, so stop being so defensive.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-75615976837808194332014-03-23T19:36:03.046-07:002014-03-23T19:36:03.046-07:00Thank you.Thank you.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-34351846334387745672014-03-23T10:52:56.363-07:002014-03-23T10:52:56.363-07:00I have nothing to offer in addition to this sentim...I have nothing to offer in addition to this sentiment, except that I think it was so perfectly expressed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com