Comments on: Molto Grazie

By: MBH

MBH — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:48:35 +0000

Cool interview! I really like how you handle the aggressing-against-a-child-about-to-be-hit-by-a-car argument. But a few points remain unclear to me (not cause you weren’t clear, but because there wasn’t much follow-up questioning). I understand that the overarching approach is to say that the child would-have-willed-to-be-removed-from-the-car’s-path. But does that mean that we cannot ask questions about the moment of action itself? Don’t we have to talk about situations in which a joint will takes precedence over an individual will? If not, isn’t it a tautology to say, ‘aggression isn’t aggression whenever we say it isn’t aggression’?

By: Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:22:55 +0000

I think we should give some of it to Israel.

By: Black Bloke

Black Bloke — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:24:37 +0000

I just remembered that YouTube has these things online:

“Police State”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c_UdWo4Zek

“Radio Freq”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2PbcNdWnEs

By: Black Bloke

Black Bloke — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:17:43 +0000

Which reminds me of the Dead Prez track, “Radio Freq” (track 7 of their album RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta). In one segment of the song you can hear a phone call to a radio station identifying itself as “Peoples’ Radio”, and the artists advise the listener to “hang up, that’s the police.”

By: Roderick

Roderick — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:13:05 +0000

Well, when you tune in to hear an anarchist, and you hear the Police instead, it’s pretty obvious that the state is involved.

By: Black Bloke

Black Bloke — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:30:27 +0000

My favorite whipping boy…

By: Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:32:25 +0000

Tom G: re jobs database for criminals: this is a great idea. I recently in a private way helped out an employee of our company arrested for skipping out on a court hearing for a previous victimless crime. I persuaded the powers that be to fully support the guy and tell the judge he could have his job back any time. Who cares what the state says about people?! The main problem is not enough libertarians have jobs, much less are owners of companies.

By: Anon73

Anon73 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:28:29 +0000

I’m sorry I misread his post as advocating prostitution, tax avoidance businesses advertising in a database…

Anyway, how difficult is it for people with past convictions to get hired in the current corporate culture? How about academic culture like yours? Do they make a distinction between “felonies” and “misdemeanors” or is it just a blanket show-you-the-door policy if anything turns up? Any websites you know about this stuff? This sounds like an interesting avenue for libertarian discussion in the current economic crisis.

By: Roderick

Roderick — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:23:06 +0000

Well, it’s not illegal to hire people with past convictions.

By: Anon73

Anon73 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:18:17 +0000

Well TomG like most great ideas there are legions of people determined to stop them from being implemented. In this case disaster would strike if such a database ever fell into the wrong hands. :/