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Member since 04-06-2010
More posts by maglame
Thought you guys might like this. Don't think it's been posted ITT.
over 1 year ago
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maglame, what would you say if i told you i was going to scientifically investigate which colour is the prettiest?
I'd say that it's a pretty interesting thi...
we can have beliefs about pain and disease which are mistaken or incomplete, but we can still perform experiments and gather data see if there's a better absolute way.<...
No, you have to say "living longer is healthy" or "not feeling pain is healthy" as healthy is defined as being free from illness, injury, and pain, I think both of these statements a...
What does one have to do with the other? Health is obv quantifiable while good/evil right/wrong is clearly subjective.
I don't see how one is clearly quantif...
Nothing is good/evil or right/wrong, these are simply labels made up by us.
I disagree. Sam Harris uses health as an example: Who are we to say what is healt...
Why is state control over factories, land, food production, and big business preferable to private ownership?
There is a very credible alternative to capital...
The CPI and GDP numbers have had many changes over the years to paint a prettier picture, and even then the CPI is a very flawed statistic. If the old CPI measurement was applied con...
As for the Austrian School, they predicted the boom far better and in far more detail than anyone else, they have the best insight into business cycles.
Meglame I haven't seen a single coherent argument or criticism to back up any of your poo flinging, can you back up your claim that the Austrian School or Hazlitt is bunk?