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Forum: Politics 09-21-2007, 12:46 AM
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Posted By pvn
Re: A question about private roads

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Just like the West and/or Russia (and in a couple of decades, the Chinese too) versus the technologically laggard Middle Easterners who are sitting on some very...
Forum: Politics 09-19-2007, 02:07 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
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Is there any reason that these firms won't be corrupted by money and power?

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Yes. It's called competition and voluntary eaxchange. A coercive...
Forum: Politics 09-19-2007, 02:06 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
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Just like the West and/or Russia (and in a couple of decades, the Chinese too) versus the technologically laggard Middle Easterners who are sitting on some very shiny, oily sands.

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Forum: Politics 09-19-2007, 01:03 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
Re: A question about private roads

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So Pizarro might well have made a profitable trip against the natives (we don't really know without a comparison of total costs versus total returns), and perhaps the USA could make a...
Forum: Politics 09-19-2007, 11:31 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
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Now what? What does this acknowledgement do for your position?

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I think it helps support my position. There is no reason that the target must always have less...
Forum: Politics 09-19-2007, 10:16 AM
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Views: 367
Posted By pvn
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I don't think a blanket statement that forcible predation ALWAYS carries costs that exceed returns can be valid.

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I think the only time in...
Forum: Politics 09-18-2007, 10:45 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
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Theft is DAMN profitable if you can get away with it. Group theft is just the next step on the ladder.

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ANd the bigger you scale it, the harder it is...
Forum: Politics 09-17-2007, 10:41 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
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Theft is DAMN profitable if you can get away with it. Group theft is just the next step on the ladder.

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ANd the bigger you scale it, the harder it is to get away with. ...
Forum: Politics 09-17-2007, 10:37 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
Re: A question about private roads

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No, because I am expressing doubt that your precepts will work in nearly all cases, whereas you appear to be saying they will.

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You're both begging multiple questions here....
Forum: Politics 09-17-2007, 09:27 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
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No, wait. The implication was that if security, law, courts were privately provided, there would be corruption. There is NOT government provision of food (for the most part),...
Forum: Politics 09-17-2007, 12:24 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
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And nobody has shown that government influence IS requried to prevent it. I also haven't shown that government influence isn't required to prevent dragons from burning all of...
Forum: Politics 09-16-2007, 09:34 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
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Even if there is ample evidence that food can be provided privately in a governed society, you havent shown that some non-direct government influence isnt required to prevent the...
Forum: Politics 09-15-2007, 10:26 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
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If they can find a "non-corrupt" competitor.

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There's not much that's more important than food. We have miraculously gotten this far down the statism road without having...
Forum: Politics 09-15-2007, 10:24 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 367
Posted By pvn
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Another scenario. I don't know how the death star will factor into this.....but we'll see.

Scenario: There is one road in front of my home. I have to first enter this road to go...
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