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I think you're being too dogmatic for me to benefit from talking to you. Happy reasoning.

You're using the quotes of the Founders as if they were infallible and that their endorsement is the only justification needed. The Founders, however, were not infallible, as shown by their permitting of slavery and other mistakes made by the early presidents and congresses. They were just men...

Property rights are a mutually beneficial way to deal with the scarcity of valuables in nature. It's a rule that treats people fairly and is consistent, allowing people to exist in non-conflicting self-interest. That is the rational justification for property rights. Whatever religion you may...

I agree entirely, but individual liberty arguments, while being correct, are not very persuasive. It has to be demonstrated that any problem that can supposedly be be solved by government can also be solved by freedom. For example, if it were somehow possible for the government to improve the...

The idea that drunk driving should be decriminalized is a technicality. Many libertarians who advocate it also advocate private roads, in which case the road company would be setting the rules and could ban drunk driving if it wanted to.

Atlas Shrugged is my second favorite book next to The Fountainhead, and Ayn Rand is my favorite author. That said, she was very flawed and I don't think Atlas would make a good movie. I think her books are so loved by some and despised by others because they pander exclusively to a certain...

Economic success? He's just going to tell us to become industry leaders and then "shrug" in order to cripple the state, repeating the message of Rand's novel. If this guy actually had something new and worthwhile offer then he'd probably be more original in his presentation and less mysterious...

I didn't read your whole post; please just answer this question: My current monetary opinion (and a popularly held one amongst libertarians) is that money should be handled entirely by the free market (free market meaning that all physical coercion is illegal), so any bank could simply acquire...

Any involuntary association is immoral. Anything the UN does to people without their consent is therefore wrong. Seeing as the UN has no problem with undertaking such actions, I would say it is a bad and immoral organization.

Leaving the Democrats for the Republicans is not the same as going third party. Remember that third parties are legally handicapped, and not merely unpopular. If Ron Paul has no chance in the Republican party then he'll have less chance in a third party. Third party runs have made little to no...

Why is 'documentary' being spelled with a 3?

The most important task right now is educating people. It's too early to predict what's possible politically, but nothing will change so long as this is a nation of sheep. The same thing goes for the people speculating about our 2012 candidate. That's four years from now, and too much can...

The 10th amendment gives the states the right to secede. That is the ultimate check on mob rule.

Isn't that a "lesser of two evils" argument?

Dennis is honest, and that's what counts most in a person. So long as someone is honest and keeps searching, they'll eventually discover the correct political philosophy. I'm a former Democrat living in a heavily Democratic area, and I can say that many, maybe even a third of the Democrats I...