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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 8:46amSanction this postReply
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This is indeed a fine article, one in which could lead to a book detailing this out in full rebuttal of the others' arguments...

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 2:28pmSanction this postReply
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Hear, Hear!

This is oh so important. Thanks, Tibor. You fight for what is best for me (and yourself, of course!).

Ed


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Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 5:48pmSanction this postReply
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Excellent article!

Machan, you've pierced the heart of the collective ownership espoused by the Left.

Some Leftists have even argued that the recognition of private property would allow people to own each other, as slaves.

I've also heard someone argue that no one person really owns anything since we are all dependent on one another for the goods we benefit from; therefore, a person can only half-own something.

These ideas are so fallacious I can't believe some people actually hold them to be true.







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Monday, April 2, 2012 - 4:58amSanction this postReply
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Well said.

For the left, when tribal elites combine forced association with paternalistic megalomania, they claim that the result is benevolence, not slavery to the state.

And there are only fringe parties of freedom willing to make that argument; the GOP is a totally inadequate antidote to the swill the left is selling.

There are systemic arguments against flavors of totalitarianism other than freedom based arguments, and not even those are being adequately made.

Single point of failure, all our eggs in one basket, getting it all wrong at once, massively serial system design as opposed to the strength of parallel design,... monopolists with guns.

If monopolists must be inhibited in our economies, then why should we 'invest' in monopolists with guns?

regards,
Fred

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