PostsCommentsPayoutsmikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: The Cognitive Dissonance of the Simple Issue at HandSlavery never left: they just call it democracy now. There's no way any private criminals could ever hope to attain the amount of wealth expropriation and exploitation that the…mikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: The Cognitive Dissonance of the Simple Issue at HandOnly socialists are clamoring for egalitarianism. I recognize inequality will prevail without the State; and that the State can't achieve it anyway. And no anarchist is Utopian.…mikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: The Cognitive Dissonance of the Simple Issue at HandThe State is not "us", and your lack of consideration for this fact that it's patently coercive is not worthy of response. Not interested in your argument from history that since…mikemorris (57)in #libertarianism • 8 years agoRE: Is There "Global Warming?"I have not, but may take your suggestion. Thanks! These are more my suspicions, so thanks for some confirmation.mikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: Do Socialists Even Have Real Arguments?Voluntarily exchanging labor for money is not the exploitation that is the expropriation of taxation. Stop reading Marx.mikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: Do Socialists Even Have Real Arguments?Socialism also achieves its end of ending property rights through other means than outright nationalization, seeing the failures of Communism, namely that of taxation and…mikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: Do Socialists Even Have Real Arguments?One cannot be an anarchist and cite Marxists.orgmikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: Do Socialists Even Have Real Arguments?That's just a bad utilitarian argument for theft. The point is, and the case against the State is, that there is no means of measuring interpersonal utility; our preferences are…mikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: Will We Ever Have Anarchy?Thanks for the read and your comment. It could certainly happen at anytime that the public becomes swayed, but I'm just about as hopeful as Mencken is that it will.mikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: Who the Hell Does the State Think It Is?I appreciate the comment. It's always helpful that we back up each other, too.mikemorris (57)in #libertarianism • 8 years agoRE: A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property (Book Review)Great comment. Thank you.mikemorris (57)in #lgbt • 8 years agoRE: Do Gay People Have Rights?Your feedback. it fuels.mikemorris (57)in #libertarianism • 8 years agoRE: My Libertarian Understanding of Rights and CrimesThis is a great read already. Never saw this one. Thanks for the recommendation and the read! I appreciate it.mikemorris (57)in #trump • 8 years agoRE: Trump's Victory: Republicans Are Socialists TooI really appreciate the feedback.mikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: A Political-Economic View From An Anarcho-Capitalist PerspectiveScarcity can never be eliminated; the goal of economic production is to alleviate scarcity. It is of course possible to have something in greater abundance than previously…mikemorris (57)in #anarchism • 8 years agoRE: Anarchist Unity and Anarchist Division"Anarcho"-communists are not voluntaryists though; they're no anarchists in our conception of non-aggression. Perhaps they may more-easily be convinced of our ideas, but it seems…mikemorris (57)in #anarchy • 8 years agoRE: City of AsylumThat's great. Not to be forgotten is the American tax-resister Irwin Schiff who was imprisoned, and left to die there, for promoting his book on why you don't have to pay taxes.