How Does A President Lead A Country Fairly And Democratically With So Many People Having Mixed Agendas, Ideas And Opinions?
It’s impossible, since democracy is only capable of selecting priorities among people with homogenous interests, and impossible to select between conflicting choices among people with heterogeneous interests. Markets let us cooperate on means despite different ends – no monopolies. Democracy is a monopoly in which we cannot cooperate on means because of different ends. Democracy…
Q&A: –“Curt: What Are Your Thoughts on Taxation?”–
Author’s note. I like this post because it shows how we can educate people on controversial issues. [G]reat question. I’m going to answer this set of questions in a different order from the one they were asked: –“Have you spent much time on taxation and it’s various forms? Perhaps you could do a post on…
Q&A: —“Curt: Whats Your Position on Intellectual Property”—
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Forms of Intellectual Property: * Trademarks and Branding (Weight and Measure) (may not misrepresent as identical) * Creative Commons and Open Source ( free use for non-commercial use) * Copyright (License fees to inventors of creative products) * Patents (license fees to inventors of material products ) * Legal Privileges (license fees on…
Q&A: —“Curt: Is There Any Morality Beyond Self Interest?”—
—“Do you believe that morality beyond self-interest is entirely false as a result?”— [I] don’t believe in anything, because the term is archaic. I can state that it’s a strong truth candidate, because despite extremely exhaustive efforts by highly biased researchers, we cannot find a single instance of moral action that is not in itself…
Do Scientists Actively Believe That Everything Has An Explanation?
Of course everything CAN BE EXPLAINED. The problem is in observing it.Much of the universe is open to electromagnetic inspection, but not enough of it. Until we can inspect something it is very hard to do anything other than deduce that explanation from the events that surround it. BUT THATS NOT THE POINT.The point you’re…
If You Could Posses A Super Power, What Would It Be?
Sending people to Hell. https://www.quora.com/If-you-could-posses-a-super-power-what-would-it-be
Why Is Neo-progressivism So Reliant Upon The Re-appropriation Of Marxist Doctrine And Critical Theory?
1) Conservatism must speak in historical, moral, allegorical, and religious language because if stated ratio-scientifically it’s reducible to ‘eugenics in everything’, just as all of western civilization has been since the Kurgan invasions. So conservatives do not lie they just do not speak the truth. 2) Neo-Liberalism is just an attempt to turn america into…
How Large Is The Alternative Right? How Fast Is It Growing?
I am personally, within my lifetime, going to convert the (rather large) Alt Right into the New Right. The reasons why this is easy, has almost everything to do with geographic distribution and demographics. https://www.quora.com/How-large-is-the-alternative-right-How-fast-is-it-growing
How Racist Is The South In The U.s.?
Where in the world is NOT racist that is not homogenous and poor, or homogenous and rich? https://www.quora.com/How-racist-is-the-South-in-the-U-S
Why Has Socialism, Or “socialism Of Chinese Characteristics” Been So Successful In China?
It hasn’t been. Its state corporatism that has been successful in china. China is run as a for-profit corporation of 1+billion people, using the country’s intergenerational borrowing capacity to attempt to create a modern consumer economy by using that borrowing capacity to move vast numbers of people from villages to urban centers in the hope…
Why Does The Us Government Insist On Making Other Countries Be Democratic?
THE COMPLETE ANSWERThe world wars dramatically changed western civilization to which we said ‘never again’. This has driven american policy since world war one. American treats europe as a set of petulant client states that are incapable of self rule. This is not new. Americans have believe this of europeans since the founding of the…
What Does The Libertarian Party Stand For?
You believe in religions, you have knowledge of institutional solutions. https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-Libertarian-party-stand-for
Where Are The Us Political Party Manifestos?
THE MOST ACCURATE AND COMPLETE STATEMENT YOU WILL NEED. The left’s manifesto has been public for over a century, and is represented in the ten planks. And the left has been successful and (a) a complete canon of pseudoscience in the social sciences (b) conquest of the primary education and secondary education systems, (c) conquest…
What Is The True Intelligence Of Someone Who Seeks Petty Conflict On The Internet For Its Own Sake Or Rather As Something To Self-aggrandize Himself?
What is the comparative intelligence of people who get paid to make up these questions so that quora can fake its statistics? https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-true-intelligence-of-someone-who-seeks-petty-conflict-on-the-internet-for-its-own-sake-or-rather-as-something-to-self-aggrandize-himself
Why Do We Have Laws If Criminals Are Going To Ignore Them?
You don’t understand. Laws are the terms of the insurance policy that we demand of the state in order for not using violence ourselves. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-have-laws-if-criminals-are-going-to-ignore-them
Who Pees Outside More: Conservative Or Liberal Women?
Conservative women at campsites. Liberal women drunk on the street. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Who-pees-outside-more-conservative-or-liberal-women
Is The World Better Off With Or Without Facebook?
I think the world is better off for facebook if only for its use in assisting in revolutions. I think quora WAS making the world better off before it hired …. idiots …. to post fake questions and generate page responses. https://www.quora.com/Is-the-world-better-off-with-or-without-Facebook
Who Are The Best Examples Of Truly Citizens Of The World?
People who act locally, and think locally, rather than impose costs of their fantasies upon others? https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-best-examples-of-truly-citizens-of-the-world
If I Wanted To Would It Be Legal To Build A Multi Thousand Acre Lake On All Private Property?
There is a long tradition of slough, stream, pond and lake building, and it’s very hard to find criticisms of it unless you violate one of the three four principles: It’s close to an existing stream, pond, lake, that could be in any way impacted by the presence of a competing ecosystem. It requires diverting…
How Would An Anarcho Capitalist Society Look Like, In The Long Run?
(a) Libertines (anarcho capitalists) differ from libertarians (jeffersonian contractualists), where Contractualist Libertarian = do no harm to the commons, and anarchist libertine = do no good to the commons. This is the underlying principle of decidability in libertinism (anarcho capitalism): avoid costs of physical, normative, an cultural commons, where the principle of decidability in libertarianism…
What Is The Most Powerful Position In Government?
The Chairman of the Central Bank. There is no question about it. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-powerful-position-in-government
Do We Need To Move Beyond Party Based Politics?
No. Countries with more parties produce more consistent policy. https://www.quora.com/Do-we-need-to-move-beyond-party-based-politics
Is It True That Immediate Family Members Are More Likely To Be Concerned About You Than Your Extended Family Members?
It’s true that you don’t have any command of the english language, and are just wasting our time with your spam. “EXTENDED FAMILY” https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-immediate-family-members-are-more-likely-to-be-concerned-about-you-than-your-extended-family-members
What Have Political Scientists Learned About How To Actually Change People’s Views?
You can’t. Our moral intuitions reflect (necessarily) our reproductive strategy. We vote our genes. We never really change political preferences unless the current voting cycle can be reduced to a single policy issue. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-have-political-scientists-learned-about-how-to-actually-change-peoples-views
In Looks Are White Women At A Disadvantage To Latino Women?
The data says that white men will prefer chasing latino women over white women because they perceive them as ‘easier’ and less ‘arrogant’. https://www.quora.com/In-looks-are-white-women-at-a-disadvantage-to-Latino-women