Muscle Tracer posted:

I miss Eripsa

Literally The Worst posted:

hi jrode remember this post

it's the only time that you've ever addressed me, because you're a basic fuckin bitch with balls so tiny that if you put them in a drinking straw it'd look like kernels of corn rolling into a storm drain. you don't have the fuckin nads to address me unless i scream at you about what a loving piece of poo poo you are, and then you have the chutzpah to play internet tough guy.

so

now that we've established what a pussy rear end babyman you are, let's talk about minimum wage jobs, and how they're useless for getting better ones. tell me what your actual personal experience with these jobs is, because i would like to hear how your anecdote trumps mine. tell me about how dishwashing alone got you a job doing literally anything that wasn't for minimum wage or barely above (call center work, for example, paid me 10/hr. it was still a poo poo rear end job and i didnt really make enough to get by easily)

or are you too much of a chickenshit pansy to actually argue about things instead of just proclaiming them to be true, oval office

Tesseraction posted:

The latter I can understand but it's depressing to think he got the former job position of pirate blu-ray burner via nepotism.

Juffo-Wup posted:

Kant explicitly said that it is always wrong to lie no matter what, even to save a life. And also that masturbation is worse than suicide and that bastards should be killed. Pretty much every contemporary Kant scholar thinks he misapplied his own ethical system in a lot of places.

Literally The Worst posted:

but benny and smalls stayed friends and squints got with the lifeguard, that was a good ending

Nolanar posted:

But then I'll have to venture outside my bookmarks tab.

paragon1 posted:

Legalize marijuana.

Then start a federal program to grow a whole poo poo load of really great weed.

Then sell that weed at a reasonable price and convenient locations nationwide.

Then put on some really great tunes and maybe make some spaghetti.

paragon1 posted:

Fight me IRL.

jrodefeld posted:

Stupid bullshit written by a melon rapist

jrodefeld posted:

I'm using a "life boat scenario" as a rhetorical device to explain the philosophy. In a free society, these sorts of situations would be staggeringly unlikely and rare. Life boat scenarios are brought up all the time as attacks against libertarianism by resorting to unusual and extreme circumstances. The idea is that if you postulate a situation so extreme and desperate that aggression or property rights violations are seen as tolerable, or even morally legitimate, then all the normal prohibitions against aggression during the other 99.9% of the time should be negotiable as well. It's a good try, but it doesn't work.

People in extreme circumstances will resort to doing unethical things to survive. That doesn't mean those actions, in and of themselves, are laudable and morally good. But the extenuating circumstances make the actions less legally serious than they otherwise would be and courts would take such circumstances into account.

But importantly, it is up to the property owner to demand restitution for any act of aggression against his or her property. If a store-owner doesn't even want to choose to pursue legal action for a one-time shop lifter, then there is no obligation that he do so. And it is nobody else's business if that is his choice. A compassionate and understanding store-owner might let it slide completely once he knows of the extenuating circumstances. But he has the legal right to seek restitution for the aggression.

The broader question of "how to provide for the hungry" is a different question. In the first place, there will be far fewer hungry people in a free society as general prosperity is higher, and there is greater production of groceries and distribution for those goods. For those who still are under-nourished, food banks, soup kitchens, charities, mutual aid societies, and churches have a moral responsibility to help the needy. But the need can be expected to be less than it currently is.

jrodefeld posted:

I know you're being facetious, but as I've stated many times before, any response to an act of aggression must be proportional or the response becomes itself an act of illegitimate aggression. So clearly executing a shoplifter cannot be justified. The prerogative of the victim of theft is either to prosecute for restitution for the amount stolen or to not prosecute. That is it. The amount owned by the thief would be equal to the market value of the stolen goods plus a fee for the time and hassle of pursuing the restitution.

That would seem to be in accordance with justice, wouldn't it?

theshim posted:

Jrod do you still subscribe to the belief that there are women who get pregnant as a means to collect more welfare?

Juffo-Wup posted:

jrod look what you've done

jrodefeld posted:

So I'll just ask this question because I am genuinely curious. Forgetting the historical gold standard, why don't the left support a mechanism which limits the expansion of the money supply in order to limit inflation and curtail the enrichment of the corporate class and the endless expansion of the State? This, to me, seems like a very Progressive cause since this is one of the biggest drivers of inequality and corporate privilege.

GunnerJ posted:

Cool avatar, dude.

Twerkteam Pizza posted:

jrodefeld posted:

It was a pretty sweet job at that time in my life and I was sad to have to let it go when I moved after a year or so. But I don't think for a minute that I would have gotten that job without the stellar references I had accumulated during my teenage years.

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

GunnerJ posted:

"Rules of Nature" is pretty good background music for any explication of libertarian principles.

Caros posted:

I have a friend who manages a local pizza joint. He has worked there for a decade starting as an evening cook. He makes a grand total of $16/hour Canadian. Why is his decade of pizza cooking not correlating into a great job?

Caros posted:

I don't even know what that is.

Caros posted:

Well that was more jrodefeld specific. For a while now I've been pondering a Shitmisesdotorgssays style blog. But again,

Hbomberguy posted:

I hope JRod or the other libs come back and make a new thread so we can watch the meltdown all over again. It was a run ride.