Why Should I Provide My Knowledge To Quora For Free?
Because you don’t know it’s knowledge until it’s tested. And the only way to test knowledge (arguments) is to make them. Just like the only way to test experiments is to run them. https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-provide-my-knowledge-to-Quora-for-free
Has Anyone Benefited Tangibly From Answering On Quora, And If So By What Terms Were These Benefits?
I think this is an interesting question. 1) Entertainment of yourself and others.2) Promotion of yourself, others, or certain ideas.3) Assistance of others (which is theoretically the purpose)4) Experimentation and refinement of your arguments. (1) is obvious but isn’t very valuable to anyone.(2) is probably a misuse (free riding) and tedious.(3) is the target idea…
In A Hundred Years Time, What Do You Think People Will Consider To Be The Great Moral Failure Of Our Era? For The Purposes Of This Question, Let Us Define ‘our Era’ As 2000-2013.
I WILL TRY TO GIVE YOU A BETTER ANSWER 1) Hayek argued that the 20th centuries and its wars would be remembered as an era of mysticism ushered in by Marx and Freud, culminating in the reliigon of Postmodernism (liberalism) – the most recent incarnation of Zoroastrianism – saying false things repeatedly in order to…
Is Having A Job A Right?
SOME OK ANSWERS BY OTHERS, BUT I WILL GIVE A BETTER ONE A right is something provided by a contract. We can in theory create a contract that states that every person has a right be as attractive as a victoria’s secret model. The problem is, that the provision isn’t enforceable because (a) we don’t…
Has The Canadian Government Ever Acknowledged The Country Formation Was A Crime?
A crime is a violation of a contract, where laws are properties of a contract for norms within a society fo people with similar goals, manners, ethics, morals, language and reproductive strategies. Even if the contract is nautural law, and even if natural law only applies to people within a government, not across governments. Human…
What Reservations Do You Have About Liberal Principles?
Liberalism is the political wing of a religion. That religion is Postmodernism. Postmodernism was created as a linguistic attack on reason, in order to find a solution to seizing political power, given the failure of socialism in theory and in practice. Irrational contradiction is a necessary and pervasive tactic in the postmodern religion. Instead of…
The Religion of Postmodernism as a Reformation of Christianity
[T]HE PURPOSE OF RELIGION IS TO CONCENTRATE POLITICAL POWER Either as a resistance, or as a military force. That is the purpose of a religion. EIther to take power, or to resist power. Religions concentrate human efforts. POSTMODERNISM IS A REFORMATION OF CHRISTIANITY Postmodernism is just the most recent religion in a long history of…
Rights, Punishment and Human Rights
[W]hen someone violates NATURAL RIGHTS (life, liberty, property, by fraud, theft or violence) we punish them by removing their NATURAL RIGHTS, by imprisoning them. Natural rights are NECESSARY RIGHTS to engage in cooperation via exchanges within society: life, liberty, and property. We pay for our natural rights by forgoing our opportunity for fraud, theft and…
What Are Rights? The “Final Word” on Rights
1) RIGHTS: A “right” is a claim against other members of a contract, wherein each party grants the other party something (a right) in exchange for somthing else (an obligation). Each person then has ‘rights’ as agreed upon in the contract, as well as obligations. This is the meaning of the term ‘right’. A right…
Do Convicted Criminals Deserve Human Rights Since They Willingly Deprived Someone Else Of Theirs?
When someone violates NATURAL RIGHTS (life, liberty, property, by fraud, theft or violence) we punish them by removing their NATURAL RIGHTS, by imprisoning them. Natural rights are NECESSARY RIGHTS to engage in cooperation via exchanges within society: life, liberty, and property. We pay for our natural rights by forgoing our opportunity for fraud, theft and…
If We Ever Cloned Hominids, Would They Have Human Rights?
Rights are the product of an exchange where terms are specified in a contract. For rights to exist a contract must exist – stated or written, or assumed. If we cloned hominids, and cloned them sufficiently well that they could negotiate agreements with us, it is very likely that we would have to grant them…
What Is The Best Way To Learn Monetary Policy?
I will give you a little help. There is nothing much to it. It is cursory in textbooks for a reason. It’s just no more complicated than maintaing a supply of money that’s high enough that interests rates are low enough, the people spend to consume and spend to invest. And not too high that…
What Is A “right”?
1) RIGHTS: A “right” is a claim against other members of a contract, wherein each party grants the other party something (a right) in exchange for somthing else (an obligation). Each person then has ‘rights’ as agreed upon in the contract, as well as obligations. This is the meaning of the term ‘right’. A right…
Values And Principles: Has The Fact That The Us Has Never Apologized To The Innocent People It Has Imprisoned And Tortured Affected Our Society?
What has affected our society was the world wars, and our loss of self confidence that resulted from it. Our civilization has spent time, treasure and blood to drag the rest of humanity kicking and screaming out of universal ignorance, mysticism and endemic poverty. And we are still dragging the one primitive civilization remaining, kicking…
Libertarianism: In A Stateless Society Based On Private Property Rights, How Would You Avoid Imprisonment By Another Individual Purchasing All The Property Surrounding Your Property?
A stateless society based upon property rights is a broader definition than Rothbardian Libertarianism, which would argue that you must compete via price for access to your land. But that is a relatively silly thing to say given the logic at hand: The questoin is, if you have property and it’s capable of being locked,…
Is Libertarianism The Same As Anarcho-capitalism?
The other answers are not quite correct. Hopefully I will do this subject justice. Konkin’s History of the Libertarian Movement Is an accurate record of libertarianism. But there are many terms that derive from the root word ‘liberty’ and the preference for liberty. DEFINITIONS. LIBERTY: all other things being equal, a preference for private property…
Are There Any Absolute Unrestricted Rights?
RIGHTA right is a universal, contractual obligation, reciprocally granted to others by voluntary consent to the agreement of all parties. NATURAL RIGHTA natural right is a NECESSARY right that we must have in order to form a cooperative division of labor – largely by avoiding violence, fraud, and theft. The only natural right is property…
Can Socialism/marxism/communism Work Without The Forced Coercion Of The Productive And The Abrogation Of Private Property?
You are getting terrible answers here, and your question is a bit confusing. So lets clarify terms a bit first, and see if we can get you a decent response: 1) Socialism is defined as the state ownership of property, and central management of production and distribution. 2) Communism is the absence of private property.…
What Examples Are There Of Libertarianism In Practice Failing?
There have been very few ‘libertarian’ societies, and those that we have examples are are actually under the protection of some larger entity (iceland/denmark). Various small seasteading efforts have been started. But they have all been failures because there is insufficient economic incentive and value to these places. Libertarianism in the formal sense, was developed…
Would Creating A World Citizen Help Or Make Sense?
Who is your insurer of last resort? THat’s what citizenship is. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Would-creating-a-world-citizen-help-or-make-sense
Political Science: What Is A Minimalist State?
Minimal is a subjective term depending upon the perceived necessity of the person making the judgement. That said, by using the term ‘state’ not government, it is possible to list what is the minimum requirement. 1) A means of controlling the ability to define rules of behavior in a territory. Usually stated as a territorial…
If Democracy Is Forcefully Enforced In A Country By Another, Wouldn’t It Be Called Dictatorship On The Enforcer’s Part?
It is not dictatorship it is conquest. Conquest is any alteration of the current allocation of property rights, property allocation and norms, by force, whether that force be direct (violence and theft) or indirect (the promise of violence or theft in the event of non-compliance.) The justifying argument is generally that all other forms of…
If You Have Multiple Ideas As Solution To A Specific Problem, How Do You Analyse And Evaluate Them To Identify The Best One For Execution?
The one that is easiest to sell to a market easiest to extract profits from. It’s not rocket science. DO NOT SPREAD YOURSELF THIN. https://www.quora.com/If-you-have-multiple-ideas-as-solution-to-a-specific-problem-how-do-you-analyse-and-evaluate-them-to-identify-the-best-one-for-execution
What Are Some Real Life Examples Of Anarchy On A Large Scale?
There are none that involve a division of knowledge and labor. The reason being that human beings are extremely hostile to involuntary transfers, and most humans perceive price competition via the local market – as members of an extended family – as involuntary transfer. They percieve quality variation as acceptable but not price competition. They…
Fascism: What Are The Indicators Of A Fascist State?
Your question is worded oddly. One could define a Fascist state. We can enumerate the properties of fascist states. By use of the term ‘indicators’ you imply that either this convention isn’t something you’re familiar with, or that you are trying to establish the properties of a state that describe a trend. If the former,…