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    Left Libertarianism

    I wouldn't really even bother. You're just debating over terms, which is only useful on the surface. You can call left-libertarians "libertarians" if you'd like, and he can apply the label to classical liberals. Either way, you're talking about different things. If you want to have a discussion...
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    Natural Rights/ Natural Law

    Then maybe I'll rephrase my question. If they exist, they have to come from somewhere, and something has to determine what they are at any given time. Where do these rights come from, what are they, and what/who determies or has determined what they are?
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    Natural Rights/ Natural Law

    Then what is it that defines and legitimizes these rights?
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    Natural Rights/ Natural Law

    So then rights exist independently of whether they're able to be excercized? I have an issue with that. If you ignore univeralist conceptions even for a second, you'll find that a person being given a lethal injection has no right to life, a person in chains has no right to liberty, and a person...
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    Should we pay for water?

    The issue isn't whether water distribution should be private, it's whether water resources should be owned privately. 2. The logic of expansion can be constrained by government, but only if government actually does it. Liberal and neoliberal states (the USA and Chile, respectively, in my...
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    • Post #295
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    Should we pay for water?

    The question shouldn't be whether we should pay for it, because in some form or another, we always have (Wether "paying" for it in the time/energy it took to attain it, in some form of labor, or in money.) It should be to whom does the payment go.
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    • Post #293
    • Forum: Polls
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    In the future: Evil Criminals

    It begs the question of whether psychopathies are even ethical to treat. If the individual is considered to be seperate from hi/r psycopathy, then it can be ruled an inhibatory "other" that should be removed. However, if they're considered inseperable from, or intertwined with their psychopathy...
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    Should we pay for water?

    The problem here is both an ethical and practical one. 1. If water is run through the free market, a natural, public reasource becomes a private commodity. Ethically, this is an issue, because it makes the earth something that certain people own, and others don't. 2. Chilean forestry and the...
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    • Post #290
    • Forum: Polls
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    Free Market Response To Automation

    That gets to a major contradiction of capitalism. It's in the best interests of entrepreneurs/capitalsits to halt innovation when automation pushes us into a dynamic where workers are nearly irrelevant. If they cooperated and shared information, they would certainly do this. However, it's in the...
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    Free Market Response To Automation

    It would probably just crash. If production is able to be carried out without employment, and governments don't provide guaranteed income, supply will skyrocket, while demand will plummet. This will only become worse, as production ceases because it's unprofitable.
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    Fry Cook Shifted to Part-Time Work Confronts Obama

    You're quite the patriot, aren't you?
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    Progressive taxation is not only essential, but MORAL.[W:963:1176:1448]

    There can be a balance. Many collectivist anarchists recognize the need for government as a method of organizing societies. The problem is when that government becomes something removed from the governed. Pannekoek, a council communist, was an advocate of localities being controlled by...
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    Living wages - real examples

    But that won't produce the relevant changes in market dynamics to up wages - it'll lower the cost of living, though. In order for your narrative to make sense, employers would have to sacrafice increases in profits to compensate workers for increased productivity.
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    Living wages - real examples

    How? ..
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    Socialist Councilwoman Accepts Less Than Half of $117K Salary

    Who're the typical constituencies of a democratic socialist?
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