Irvin, Your posts (and those of Bill on this topic) strike me as the posts of an addict. Once a person becomes an addict they lose their ability to judge and...
Jim, I should note that oil -- for the present -- is not only an intricate foundation of modern industrial economies and the living standards to which most...
Jim I agree with you that it would be wonderful if governments ever really started conducting their foreign policies in a moral manner. The Gospel parable of...
Tom, I refer you to an article revealing how libertarians and neo-conservatives are funded and directed by the same entity. Please note in the article how both...
Mary I will check it out soon. Im on my way to yoga in a minute. There is no question that the Tea Party has two factions. One is a Fox News Seane Hannity,...
Not much of a difference. ... From: tom <tsmith17_midsouth1@...> To: existlist <existlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Mar 5, 2011 9:42 am Subject: Re:...
Wil, Yes, there really isn't much difference between any of them anymore. Even if I offered more in-depth articles to make my point, in your case I'd only be...
Mary and Wil I read the article.It is no secret that libertarians tend to vote with conservative Repuiblicans if possible to reduce or at least to avoid...
Mary Ironically, the fact that both major parties are to a large extent the whores of the same special interests is a point that both libertarians and most...
Irvin, I find your recent posts rather sinister, as well as arrogant and amoral. You seem to be saying that America has a God-given right to the oil under the...
Jim, In the night, imagining some fear, how easy is a bush supposed a bear, wrote Shakespeare. Note if you will, that I've been a critic of our governments'...
Irvin, I tend to think that the philosophical (i.e. ethical) disagreements between us are significant, and more so than the empirical disagreements, which are...
Tom, I have been following with interest your discussion with Mary and Wil concerning the merits or otherwise of libertarianism. As I have said before, I am in...
Jim Several points I'd like to make. First, I perceive US foreign policy and US drug policy as the particular expressions of tendencies in government to...
Jim Another example of government is the Memphis Public Transit system. I often see buses going along with no one or very few people on them. Obviously,...
Tom, Cutting out or back on mass transit is just one more hit on the poor. Sure, if there is a truly moribund route, you can either use smaller vehicles or...
Some here have categorically ruled out war as a plausible resort in a hypothetical Islamic oil embargo otherwise crippling to Western economies. I proffer...
Irvin, Perhaps your question is directed at the rest of the list, because you know what I will say, but I'll answer nonetheless. Just as I think the...
Tom, I agree with Wil on this. Essential services – like healthcare, education, transport, garbage collection, a postal service – are not the sorts of...
Wil I am not necesarily saying public transit should be eliminated, but it is obvious that the federal subsidies to mass transit create a situation where much...
Jim Your post ironically fits into libertarian thought, which opposes using government force to redistribute the fat boy's sweets.Libertarians are not opposed...
Jim Whither the garbage collection is government or private, generally a fee is charged to the user. We have a publicly owned utilities, and garbage collection...
That sort of oblivious and purely self-interested thinking is typical of the mental conditioning of capitalism. There is no thought whatsoever towards what is...
Interestingly, both Jim and Brandon approach this question with interpersonal frames of reference, which begs the magnitude or ripple effects of national or...
Irvin, You are making a valiant effort to defend the indefensible, but I fail to be convinced. When you write: "The key, leaving aside our immediate...
Irvin, You are making a valiant effort to defend the indefensible, but I fail to be convinced. When you write: "The key, leaving aside our immediate...
Jim This may be nihilistic, but certainly it is historical realism. Hopefully, things may change, but if so it would be inline with John Lennon's Imagine, not...
Tom, Yes, but Irvin and I were engaged in an ethical discussion about how our governments ought to act in certain possible future situations. Ethics is...
