Mapping the Ideology of RPF Members

Please Choose One Term In Each Pair

  • anarchism

    Votes: 12 26.7%
  • minarchism

    Votes: 29 64.4%
  • cultural left

    Votes: 14 31.1%
  • cultural right

    Votes: 24 53.3%
  • democratic government

    Votes: 15 33.3%
  • non-democratic government

    Votes: 24 53.3%
  • universalism

    Votes: 8 17.8%
  • particularism

    Votes: 24 53.3%
  • atheism

    Votes: 16 35.6%
  • theism

    Votes: 20 44.4%
  • deontology

    Votes: 18 40.0%
  • consequentialism

    Votes: 11 24.4%

  • Total voters
    45
If/when we get to anarchy, there'll be no need for us minarchists to do anything...

...other than sit back and wait to say "we told you so" as things go decidedly pear-shaped.

;)

In all seriousness, I'd be 100% supportive of an anarcho-capitalist experiment in some limited geographical area, as that would settle the debate for good.

Perhaps after we establish a properly minarchic government we'll give you fellas a reservation to play anarchy on.... :cool:


2,000 years, the size of Europe, 100 million(????) population - called Zomia.

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Please choose one term in each pair:

anarchism or minarchism

cultural left or cultural right

democratic government or non-democratic government

universalism or particularism

atheism or theism

deontology or consequentialism

You forgot "spooge" in your list. Spooge describes my political philosophy to a 'T'. Why did you leave out spooge? Spooge is the best political philosophy in the world. Spooge is, in fact, the perfect universal philosophy that applies to all people. Spooge has no flaws. Spooge has no errors.
 
Yeah, I've been having terrible zomia lately. Nothing I do puts me to sleep. Any ideas, anyone?

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Map this;

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Damn you... now I feel utterly compelled to watch Easy Rider.

Sometimes I really hate you... and that Banana fellow... and Originalist... and Fishunderwear... oh yeah and Mrs. WisenAnimal... and...
 
Damn you... now I feel utterly compelled to watch Easy Rider.

Sometimes I really hate you... and that Banana fellow... and Originalist... and Fishunderwear... oh yeah and Mrs. WisenAnimal... and...

FYI, "fish underwear" is not something to image search while the children are still awake. (Picture Google adding the term "net" to your search.)

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Yeah, we need to do beers together. That picture reminds me of a night when my friends Roxanne and Tom threw a party at their Hollywood flat. Al Stewart showed with this stunning creature on his arm, getting me all worked up. Apparently I was getting his manager all worked up, an ever-so-apparently gay man who offered me a luude. That was the last I recall of the evening. I just sat down in a chair in a corner and went "away" for about 8 hours. I did, however, manage to walk in on Al Stewart in Roxanne's walk-in closet with a different woman. You can guess what they were up to. Oh, and there was another couple in there, too. I said nothing; just put out the light and left. The rest of the evening was lost to the mists. I hope I had a good time... but not with the manager.

For those not familiar with Al Stewart,

 
Poll is inadequate and incomplete by RPF standards. Cats or Dogs and (deleted ).
 
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Well...

...this has certainly gone in a strange direction.

In any event, lurkers; wondering what the anarchists are on about?

See here.

Don't be angry with them, they mean well, they just don't think very clearly.
 
Just ask r3v how he'll choose the winners and losers in your family in the event your child is left parent-less, if your interested in what the minarchist mentally masturbate to at night. ;)
 
Just ask r3v how he'll choose the winners and losers in your family in the event your child is left parent-less, if your interested in what the minarchist mentally masturbate to at night. ;)

If you ask P3ter what he thinks the adoption law should be, he'll tell you: whatever the market selects.

So, for instance, if the market selects for allowing random pedophiles to adopt children, apparently that's cool.

I happen to disagree, and think there need to be fixed rules to protect children.

...guess I'm an evil statist or sumptin.
 
The "left" is every bit authoritarian as the "right".
or, is the right every bit as authoritarian as the left?

hard to tell any difference really.

The left is vastly more threatening to liberty than the right. See here.

me said:
The sort who decline to identify as either left or right, preferring some third label like anti-authoritarian (as the poster to whom I was responding was doing) tend in my experience to actually be of the left. The very idea of rejecting both labels implies belief in an equivalency ("each wants to impose its own brand of authoritarianism, so what's the difference?"), which is a sign that this person does not understand the nature of the modern culture war, is unaware that the left is nowadays both far more powerful and far more authoritarian in its thinking, and is therefore (at least unwillingly) on the left.

Put another way, if you aren't explicitly on the right you're probably on the left.

P.S. I might add, some of this tendency to see a false equivalency between the excesses of the right and the excesses of the left is due to latent leftist sympathies, but some is also due - I think - to an unfortunate tendency among many libertarians to see everything in black and white: an ideology either permits aggression or it doesn't - with no room for different degrees of aggression. By way of (slight) hyperbole, suppose you're presented with a traditionalist movement to ban divorce, on the one hand, and the Bolsheviks on the other. Some libertarians are going to say "ah, well, they both advocate aggression...so who cares?"
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^^^Boy, that's pathetic.

Lurkers, I commend to you again the thread I linked earlier.

Among other things, you'll find that the Banana failed (and actually explicitly refused) to provide any argument whatever in rebuttal, to defend anarchism.

...now our potassium-rich friend is relying on silly little pablum like the above.
 
If you ask P3ter what he thinks the adoption law should be, he'll tell you: whatever the market selects.

So, for instance, if the market selects for allowing random pedophiles to adopt children, apparently that's cool.

I happen to disagree, and think there need to be fixed rules to protect children.

...guess I'm an evil statist or sumptin.

lol... And here you go 'if people were allowed to be free kids would be getting sold to pedophiles'. This happens today, this could happen under all but the most severely restricted societies, and it could happen in a free society. The biggest difference is in a free society there isn't a coercive government protecting the pedophile! And while r3v may not trust the market to create such fixed rules, he does trust genetic lines (of a possibly market's based choosing?) to do so. Such misplaced faith.
 
lol... And here you go 'if people were allowed to be free kids would be getting sold to pedophiles'. This happens today, this could happen under all but the most severely restricted societies, and it could happen in a free society. The biggest difference is in a free society there isn't a coercive government protecting the pedophile! And while r3v may not trust the market to create such fixed rules, he does trust genetic lines (of a possibly market's based choosing?) to do so. Such misplaced faith.

It has nothing to do with the state (am I not repeating myself from the previous thread?).

It's about the law, state-enforced or stateless makes no difference in this context.

Either you believe that there is a correct way to handle adoption or you don't.

If not, then, by definition, you're fine with whatever happens - which puts you in a bit of a moral pickle as my hyperbolic example was intended to illustrate.

If so, well then you cannot simply endorse "whatever the market produces."

Either/or

A is not not-A.

Choose
 
^^^Boy, that's pathetic.

Lurkers, I commend to you again the thread I linked earlier.

Among other things, you'll find that the Banana failed (and actually explicitly refused) to provide any argument whatever in rebuttal, to defend anarchism.

...now our potassium-rich friend is relying on silly little pablum like the above.

What I refused to do was dance around the mulberry bush for the umpteenth time with someone who insistently demanded disproof of his aprioristic "proof" of something that is aprioristically un(dis)provable.

For evidence of the ultimate futility of arguing with such mentalitites, lurkers & others have no need to look beyond the patronizingly contentless sneers and childishly petulant name-calling in the above reply - tt's barely a few levels above, "Oh, yeah? Well ... yer a big fat doody-head! So there!"
 
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