Maximatic

In 2000, during the Republican primaries, a guy was running named Alan Keyes. This guy was a conservative. What he believed was the the government is too big and to intrusive, and that it needed to be cut back. I thought, this is great, this is the guy to nominate, plus, he's black, so all the Democrats can shut up about all this racist nonsense. Then, out of nowhere, came a guy George Bush, he was a compassionate conservative. All the talking heads in the media we telling me that this guy is awesome, ...

Natures resources are finite. Some things are super-abundant, like air. We don't have to worry about who owns the air because it's not scarce. There is plenty of it to go around. Other things are not so abundant, like our bodies. I can only occupy one body. No one else can occupy my body. Possession of my body cannot be transferred away from me, as long as we assume that my live body is not the same good as my dead body. Since this is the case, it is unreasonable to believe that I do not own my ...

Humans must work to survive. We can't just walk around naked and pluck fruit when we're hungry. Without work we die. This sucks. The greater the buffer between us and death, the more comfortable we are. That buffer is built by the accumulation of surplus goods. Thus the natural inclination of the human is to acquire, not just enough, but always more. It's not just some strange new desire brought on by the "rat race" of modern civilization, as supposed by the young "anarchists". ...

All of the people in a society interacting with one another by trading what they have for what they want, each driven by the need to satisfy some desire, comprise a market. Even if you are a Determinist, you should agree that human action cannot be predicted with statistically significant reliability, and that humans, in a very real sense, are causal agents. Since a market is comprised of humans, scientific testing of economic hypothesis is not possible.
There's no such thing as an economic ...

Our government writes laws and expects us to follow them. If we don't follow the laws our government writes, our government will punish us by making us give it more money or by locking us in a cage and, if we don't want to cooperate, it will shoot and kill us.
This seems like a bad situation to be in. What's to stop our government from writing unreasonable or even ridiculous laws and then punishing us if we fail to follow them?
No need to fear though. The wise men who founded our ...