Ossie: On a more topic-related note, history has pretty much proven that humans are exploration-inclined, it's just something we do.
Right - voluntarily. Saying that we need to be coerced into exploring iwould contradict your point.
None of us would be where we are today if it weren't for some very ambitious people long ago,
Who privately funded and accomplished great deeds.
Saurdaukar: So... you want all the privileges of living in a capitalist society... but you dont want to pay for it. Ok.
Quite the opposite. I want myself - and everyone else - to pay voluntarily for everything they use. There is no need for a government intervention to enable the functioning of the free market - the government intervention is disrupting free market.
I do not want "priviliges" of living in a socialist society - and neither do I want to be saddled with expenses.
There is a catch though - if you choose not to fund your share of the space program you arent allowed to use any of the products derived as a result of said program.
So far it is you who seem to promote stealing the fruits of my investments for your preferred purposes. What's more - not only my money voluntarily invested in biomedical and other research bring me dividends that are coercively confiscated, you are free to purchase the goods produced due to my savings and investement and risk-taking.
For all I care, you socialists can have Mars all to yourself. I don't pay for it, I don't use it - that's exactly my position.
As for 401K - why the heck should I demand poor people to subcidise my retirement with their taxes? When I am contributing to the max and getting a tax-free comany match and I am in the highest tax bracket, I save a lot more on taxes than an average Joe who has to cover the shortfall. 401K is the wealth transfer from the poor to the wealthy. As long as we pay taxes, we should at least use them to help disadvantages, not the privileged.
Dago: While we don't normally have a direct say in the spending of taxes, we have indirect control if we care to exercise it by electing or reelecting...
Democratic majority can confiscate property of the minority and dispose of it at will. That's nothing more than a brute force principle.
According to that principle a gang raping a woman "for her own good" is totally justified. They have good intentions and she has her chance to vote.
Kind of sad really to think that you are only using this board to recruit for the Libertarians. Even sadder is they don't realize the ideas you post aren't really yours,
As I've said several times, I am referrinmg people to the original sources at the first opportunity. It's kind of sad you fail to nderstand simple English.
And if you think that one can reproduce single-handedly the whole knowlege accumulated by humanity, you are deluded.
I never claim I came up with the theory. I am only making people aware that the knowlege does exist for them to learn -just like I did. And I apply that knowlege to explain/illustrate the events in our lives.
I do not have to invent and build a car from scratch in order to give someone a lift.
Anyway, Dago - you spend way too much time concentrating on my personality and my motives. It's your right but I do notc are to waste time on you. If you have problems with the ideas that I post here, find the flaws in my logic or premises and have a rational discussion.
miko
