In this article by Rothbard, we find the following: "while liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar expressions of liberty in action."

Nearly everyone in the philosophical profession thinks Nozick came up with the idea of "capitalist acts between consenting adults" in Anarchy, State, and Utopia. But here we find the same analogy used by Rothbard a year before (1973) Nozick's book came out (1974).

I have notices over the years that many Jews like Rothbard, Greenwald, and Nozick seem to be able to see through the bullshit and get right to the heart of the matter.

Is it racist to notice that Jewish culture may aid this ability in many of its members?

"Is it racist to notice that Jewish culture may aid this ability in many of its members?"

Perhaps, but perhaps "Christian" culture has tended to regard and label those with bullshit detectors as satanic and heretical and "American" culture labels them as un-american. On e tends to be blind to the negative effects of one's own culture or those cultures which one has little personal knowledge of. Very few of any cultural type escape the bounds of their programming unless that programming is "broken" by the standard means in common use.

When it comes to culture vs. humanity, all of them are rather suspect. You might be engaging in wishful thinking when making assumptions about positive attributes of any of these social systems of controlling domesticated apes. After all, these social systems were the product of these same domesticated apes, despite what some "holy" books say.

I think with some guys you should ask first, "do you believe in live and let live as a general principle"? If the answer is no then you have a totalitarian on your hands.

Almost everyone believes in live and let live, as long as you think, act and look just like them..

It's always those "other" people that are the problem, not those just like us.

On career day @ U.T.. A scholar who is an expert and authority on S. Freudian views lectures Mother Day readers on 'penis envy' and Snicker candy bars.

A elderly Jew informs the best about why s/he has a tattoo #!

I math major who understands economics studies Oiko-economics.

There is a 40 X 60 backyard garden filled with heathy diversity plants.

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William Shakespeare (Where in the world is W.T.?) . Hark, Hark! the lark.

Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, and Phoebus `begins to arise.

His steeds to water at those springs on chaliced flowers that lies; And Winking,

Mary-buds begin to open their eyes. With every thing that pretty is, My Lady sweet,

Arise, arise! from Cymbeline 11.iii. W.S.

Almost everyone believes in live and let live, as long as you think, act and look just like them..

It's always those "other" people that are the problem, not those just like us.

-- Aycharaych

Well, no argument there. But few would admit that about themselves.

If I were to discover that my mild mannered good neighbor next door (a lawyer in a large firm) was spanking his young son and daughter when he thought they needed it, I would not call the child protective service here. Unless real evidence of abuse was present, I would leave them alone. How many here in Florida could say that? Few, I wager.

A nanny just had a man arrested on charges of child abuse due to seeing one bruise on the leg of a child. I know that at my local private school this year there have been over 20 kids fall and hurt a foot, leg, knee, or whatever. Seems kids can be clumsy.

Of course, at that age I was never clumsy, inattentive, ... ( I also have bridges for sale)

Note: Wife is a highly respected Doctor who would probably be able to tell if her son was abused via beatings.

"Perhaps, but perhaps "Christian" culture has tended to regard and label those with bullshit detectors as satanic and heretical and "American" culture labels them as un-american. ..."

Yes, the real truth is scary to many cultures; maybe all cultures. Hence, bullshit detectors are not honored often. I'll agree with that.

However, on a relative scale it seems some cultures honor certain things more than other cultures do. My culture seems to produce a lot of drunken writers who get into wild sexual situations. (care to guess?) :-)

The once ubiquitous, dazzlingly photogenic DeRita seems to have vanished into thin air. My Google searches yield nothing current about Rumsfeld's Liar in Chief, or about his equally creepy wife Theresa Sheehan, former lead warmonger at the American Institute in Taiwan.

I strongly suspect they're both floating in the primordial ooze of right-wing think tanks, plotting nefarious crimes against international law, but any information would be sincerely appreciated.

He's currently a spokesman for the Bank of America Corp. I actually emailed him this morning because some of the statements he made in interviews about the military analyst program (made before the DoD released those documents) are completely at odds with what these documents show. I requested some answers - if they're not forthcoming, we can do a Lee-Hamilton-like campaign to compel him to answer, beginning with emails and the like.

Opus? Glenn? LWM? W.T.? O, I give up. Please tell us.

The star on the DVD. 'The Planet of The Apes' ... huh.

Thank you for bringing this back on topic; that is interesting and not the least bit surprising. That is how it works. Maybe the latest posts were not that far off topic. If libertarianism says that everything would be great if everyone would leave everyone else alone except for voluntary interactions, then the realist would say: but everyone won't. And because of that, and in reaction to that, we have governments.

The skinny Kangaroo.

The thin Oz dressed up on Mothers Day in a moo cow suite drinking skim goat milk.

P.S. O.T. Last Spring my son gave a left-over high school project to a barnyard neighbor.

The good neighbors have chickens, sheep, llamas, goats, collie dogs, and the high school progect.

My son gave then hatched quail birds. They Place sings with Bob White whistles. It's a favorite stop-off for "kids"... not kid goats, but youngsters. Yesterday they showed me the Bob Whitw Quail incubation system. The Bob White breed like bunnies. huh. Serious. From 24 peeps the shed that was built for them to nest includes hundreds. They even have domesticated guinea fowls.

I've got much goat milk to drink all by myself.

I've even got a small bucket of Bob White eggs.

Stop over for a dozen poached quail bird eggs.