Smart successful people tend to have fewer children, and children tend to be born when the parent is older. Children from older parents have a greater chance of DNA mutation/errors, which then enter into the population.
For example, we mostly agree that anyone can bed anyone over the legal age under the law moral or not, because its a personal matter
We all mostly agree that we should be able to form contracts with anyone we wish to form a contract. It does not matter if your business partner is a woman or man, gay or not
So why then in the gay marriage issue do people get in a huff being pro gay marriage or anti-gay marriage?
The framing around "marriage" and not "freedom to form contracts" ferments passionate disagreement!!!
In truth, the government should not have a special contract category called marriage. Contracts are contracts, make them how you like, to whom you like.
Libertarian perspectives can cut through the crap sometimes. Some might find this funny coming from me over the last days, but that is because my perspective hasn't truly been appreciated.
I can do anything i want on my land, until it hurts someone else (e.g. poisons their land and water).
I tend to follow this rule: If it hurts myself, the law should not interfere. If those actions directly hurt others or directly hurt those to whom I am responsible, then the laws and regulations should be in effect. It is dumb to not wear a seat belt, but I should not be compelled to wear one. I should be compelled to make my child wear a safety restraint, however. I should be able to buy any type of drug, but as soon as that drug leads me to endanger the welfare of others, then the state should be able to intervene.
Also I am a libertarian who understand that we have a fiat currency. Some (i.e. MMTers) would like to empower the federal government to guarantee a job through spending (printing), but I disagree. I disagree not because of a fear of debt, which is erroneous, or of inflation necessarily, I fear an overly powered central government with an even larger purse. Instead, I would use that increased purse to make block grants to states to run governments more locally, and to helicopter drop a yearly inheritance on every citizen of the united states of equal amounts.
Thats better. Of course, the reality is different. Labor have few liberties while at work, and business owners many liberties. So while I do not unilaterally support labor over business owners, the tilt is currently in the wrong direction.
Well isn't that the very issue I am talking about? Libertarians pick and choose which liberties they support and do not support. That they often oppose worker liberty in subordination to owner liberty is telling.
Interestingly, many libertarians are against unions. Yet unions, to me, are just exercises in capitalism. In my own self interest, I form a contract with others to ensure more profitability for my expenditures.
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Oh sure. But improvements dont need to come at the cost of readability.
bye
THANK YOU.
free, free at last!
says the developer of beta
developer on a payroll
Fuck Beta. Fuck Beta a replayed time.
for now.
#3803. You've been at slashdot for more than a while. What is your view of beta Slashdot?
What is your opinion of beta?
Fuck it a second time for more mod points!
Instead, its going to look like somenobody's blog
1. judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.
for a limited time only, per the announcement.
FUCK beta a second time
slashdot beta designers should take note. Beta is ugly.
doh
Umm, there are many cultures with polygamy.
For example, we mostly agree that anyone can bed anyone over the legal age under the law moral or not, because its a personal matter
We all mostly agree that we should be able to form contracts with anyone we wish to form a contract. It does not matter if your business partner is a woman or man, gay or not
So why then in the gay marriage issue do people get in a huff being pro gay marriage or anti-gay marriage?
The framing around "marriage" and not "freedom to form contracts" ferments passionate disagreement!!!
In truth, the government should not have a special contract category called marriage. Contracts are contracts, make them how you like, to whom you like.
Libertarian perspectives can cut through the crap sometimes. Some might find this funny coming from me over the last days, but that is because my perspective hasn't truly been appreciated.
I tend to follow this rule: If it hurts myself, the law should not interfere. If those actions directly hurt others or directly hurt those to whom I am responsible, then the laws and regulations should be in effect. It is dumb to not wear a seat belt, but I should not be compelled to wear one. I should be compelled to make my child wear a safety restraint, however. I should be able to buy any type of drug, but as soon as that drug leads me to endanger the welfare of others, then the state should be able to intervene.
Also I am a libertarian who understand that we have a fiat currency. Some (i.e. MMTers) would like to empower the federal government to guarantee a job through spending (printing), but I disagree. I disagree not because of a fear of debt, which is erroneous, or of inflation necessarily, I fear an overly powered central government with an even larger purse. Instead, I would use that increased purse to make block grants to states to run governments more locally, and to helicopter drop a yearly inheritance on every citizen of the united states of equal amounts.
Thats better. Of course, the reality is different. Labor have few liberties while at work, and business owners many liberties. So while I do not unilaterally support labor over business owners, the tilt is currently in the wrong direction.
Well isn't that the very issue I am talking about? Libertarians pick and choose which liberties they support and do not support. That they often oppose worker liberty in subordination to owner liberty is telling.
Interestingly, many libertarians are against unions. Yet unions, to me, are just exercises in capitalism. In my own self interest, I form a contract with others to ensure more profitability for my expenditures.
When people arent working, then the economy is not working efficiently.
How about this. I can't reveal how much I am getting paid.
Without information about wages, how can we know if we have made a good choice?
How about this, I draw a paycheck, and the business doesn't get to know how much I choose to draw.