Replies to post #830 on The Free Zone Board

[Spallenzani]

RE: Freedom and slavery/mikkj

As a matter of fact you DID state that you were willing to see people starve, die of disease, and see our civilation end to "give it a try" as you said. Remember the conversation where you were asserting you would rather live in the woods, than suffer another day of this "slavery"? Of course you haven't left yet.

I would prefer a state of nature over an authoritarian dictatorship. The initiation of force in inexcusable.

O.K., so you got some papers that SAY you know what they taught you. The problem with that is, WHO taught you, WHAT did they teach you, how did you interpret those teachings, and what DIDN'T they teach you? Also, what is your ability to put academic teachings into a real-life perspective? Apparently none.

The course I am currently taking, Political Philosophy and Ideology, encompasses the debate between classic liberalism and Marxism. I agree with one side of the debate, the side with such great thinkers as Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, Friedrich A. Von Hayek, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson, and others.

Why do I even need to defend my knowledge of the issue to you? I obviously know what I am talking about. You may disagree with my conclusions, but I see no reason why you feel the need to attack my intelligence or knowledge of the issues.

I have GREAT respect for "life, liberty, and the puruit of happiness", for ALL men. I don't seem to remember property being included in that quote.

It comes from John Locke's Second Treatise on Government, of which that portion of the Declaration of Independence was based. And you obviously have no respect for liberty, as can be seen by your support for Socialist dogma.

Also, by the time, if ever, your philosophy takes effect ("sometime within the next century"), I expect I'll be dead, so I won't have to come crying to you Evil Capitalists.

It is already taking effect. Why do you think Communism and Socialism has constantly failed while at the same time we became the most powerful nation in the world?

It is disheartening that such vicious and bitter people like you exist in this world; people who see nothing wrong with the initiation of force against others.