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Some background on what's happening for me right now: Yesterday I moved out of an apartment I was living in with my (now) ex, into an apartment with two roommates. Last week my uncle died from Leukemia. He was my mother's younger brother. I've been feeling lots of complicated emotions around...
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If taxation is violence by the state, then isn't special interest group lobbying like taking up arms by proxy? If I don't like person/people x, I can manipulate the state to commit violence against x. I'm looking for discussions on this topic. My Google-fu isn't good enough to find any...
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And we are yet again right back in the throes of the debate I believe lies at the very center of what FDR is about. It will come back to this topic again and again and again. It's once again the reason that I finally decided to join this forum primarily to post the "Born Evil?" thread ...
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http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.6/martin_oneill_thad_williamson_rawls_property_owning_democracy_american_politics.php Stef has pointed out the tendency of those supporting state violence to paint their proposals in the language of voluntarism. This article is a perfect example. " Third, the state...
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http://www.christophercomic.com/memory-lane/ Has anyone seen this web-comic? It's a powerful memoir about an abused childhood. Warning: could be a trigger for some people.
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I thought this was absolutely fitting to post here. Tupac Shakur discusses how similar gangs are to government violence. Fascinating when you watch this video after having seen and read a lot of FDR materials. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjOSof5TSn8&t=20m15s
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A number of thoughts and feelings are swirling at the moment after watching Peter van Uhm's 2011 TED talk in Amsterdam espousing the virtues of "the gun", calling out the express directives of the military as "the monopoly on the legitimized use of force" as directed by the "democratically...
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NOTE 1: I'm a new user. I came up empty searching the forum for this topic, but apologies if it's been covered/suggested previously. NOTE 2: Inspired by an early 2012 podcast, but I'm not sure which one. Stefan says in a poscast (and I paraphrase here) that it's nonsensical to hire a...
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Hi folks. I find the 'against me' argument... troubling. Maybe I misunderstand it, and maybe reading UPB would help me understand it better, but anyways, here goes... The way I understand it, the 'against me' argument is fundamentally applying the claim that there should be symmetry the...
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I was asked how I concluded that taxes are violent. This is what I came up with, to limited success: Taxes are a transfer of wealth. A transfer of wealth is either intention al or accidental. The existence of prospective tax law rules out accidental, making them intentional. All intentional transfers...