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America needs libertarianism

Escher's Waterfall said:
Technically possible in the game "nethack".

Genocide is wiping out an entire species of creature. It's possible via a scroll. Pacifist means not striking a creature physically or magically.

It's also possible to be an pacifist extinctionist. Extinction is caused by the deaths of 120 of the same creature. After that, no others are spawned. Usually the means of accomplishing this is via a powerful pet and looking the other way (pet kills aren't counted against you). There's probably a political analogy that's possible here.
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I would hardly call a telnet game a basis for reality
 
@Vla
Again you're wrong
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q...9hVdTv&sig=AHIEtbS0viFFoJjZju8Xn3dRe9piKnDuaA

Deregulation of everything from drug prices soared after the 60's. Just because some legislation was backlash legislation does not mean the 60's weren't regulated. And that isn't even to say that it was good healthcare. Back then there were 'invisible classes' which were just racist policies (that had to broadened after the civil rights movement, the difference now is the policies aren't racist, they're classist)
 
Vlatrone said:
In the 1960s, low-cost health insurance was available to virtually everyone in America - including people with existing medical problems. Doctors made house calls. A hospital stay cost only a few days' pay. Charity hospitals were available to take care of families who could not afford to pay for healthcare.

Since then the federal government has increasingly intervened through Medicare, Medicaid, the HMO Act and tens of thousands of regulations on doctors, hospitals and health-insurance companies.

So my answer is deregulate the healthcare industry, get rid of restrictions of buying insurance in other countires, and create some competition for the insurance companies. Then he'll see his prices go down.
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This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRwrnTBfpFA&feature=related
 
Vlatrone said:
Why the fuck should I care and pay for a drug addict who can't quit? I'm all for drugs but if somebody ends up a hopeless addict thats his or her fucking problem, not mine.

They got that way by choice and their own damn fault and shouldn't get government help or a handout because of it.
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you should care because we're all human (even micheal moore, who's done a lot of good for our country..).

i think what the disagreement ultimately comes down to is how we assign blame.

we are all living in an interconnected system, we are all dependent on eachother and the environment. the ebb and flow, the dance of energy, simply happens. there is no blame, there is no guilt, there is no evil, except in the hollow and digital picture-frames of reality that our brains paint for us.
 
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Vlat' said:
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Indeed; is this inadvertent auto-critique? :P

Right-libertarians generally oppose expansion of freedom in the economic realm insofar as prior concentration of economic power fetters others' available opportunities in the economic sphere; put simply, class matters. Put 'philosophically', unregulated capitalist market exchange in a context of concentrated ownership fetters our ability to develop creatively via collaborative labor.

Thus, the libertarian left does NOT generally oppose freedom fighters in critiquing the right.

Now, if you're suggesting that the nation-state of the US is 'our' 'team', or that their military personnel protect 'our' freedom, I'm not sure if the claim even warrants rebuttal, as so much has already found expression numerous times before.

ebola
 
when i play civilization 5 i always have my capital captured because i stop funding the military to by things like Colosseums for my cities :(
 
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