Something For XEL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCI5opHrf_8&mode=related&search=

Xel, reading a number of your statements, I can see that you aren't very big on libertarian PRINCIPLES, and that you are buying into utilitarian ideas.  I'd like to take the time to point you in the direction of this little video I found on youtube here...

Pay attention to what he is saying about principles & utilitarianism, as I think this is a crucial difference between the way you think, and the way I think. 

If you and I agree on something, say, the legalization of drugs, but we disagree with each other on WHY drugs should be legalized, there will likely be other ways in which we don't see eye to eye. 

You may also want to hear what he says about regulation of the economy, libertarianism, crime, etc.

I simply believe that there is inevitable friction between private interests and a sustainable situation for the public. That accumulates. And that government and it collecting taxes beyond that neccesary for the night-watcher state is not intrinsically ethically inferior to the market catering instead. I know what happened when racist farmers tried to underpay japanese workers in the 20's - the japanese workers worked harder and could go to better employers.

"Uh, slavery is also utilitarian there are some principles, uh..." Oh duh, really. What a... Basic person this appears to be. Well, I do not accept the current system for health-care, and at the same time I do not believe it is *pragmatically feasible* to give it all to the market.
I do not pursue an end by all means, either. I do not believe that corporations would be better off just because the government retreats.

I do not believe that economics are static, either, but I believe that capital accumulates and that while social justice is impossible, putting society's fate in intrinsicalities of the market is not something I will allow my fellow men to do.

I do not trust government. I do not trust capitalism. I value social liberties as much as financial liberties but I pragmatically value the former if I can.

Stop throwing scruffy college students at me. I've read Johan Norberg, for fuck's sake.

>>2 More like boredom camp.