Libertarian Thread #2: We Shall Never Die!

Equality 7-2521 wrote: I got into an argument about the drinking age with my friend last night. He thought that sans laws against drinking, there would be no social stigma attached to children drunkenness to act as a regulating device in lieu of government.  People

I find this point rather dubious: sometimes, the law is just the "translation" of a social stigma in the administrative organisation of a nation/state/group.
I've never heard of a written law forbidding incest, yet this perversion is rarely performed. At least, the law only gives details about the way people are punished.

Epignosis wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: I've done my bit to close the racial gap in my personal life.  Go Slart!You like your ladies like I like my coffee, right?

Yellowed with beer?

I like my women like my composers: sad, Russian, and dead.  

Epignosis wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote:   Because they're getting money stolen from them maybe? I don't get why people care so much about income inequality.  Or racial inequality.  I graduated from Fayetteville State University.  I can't tell you how much I got to hear about how we need to "close the racial gap" in America.  That is a concept I'll never grasp the merits of. And while I'm somewhat white, I'm mostly Cherokee.  So there.

Well, for the first there's all these things on Wikipedia. For the second, you don't find it somewhat alarming that black people are 12% of the population but 39% of the prisoners?

I've done my bit to close the racial gap in my personal life. 

I kind of feel bad for the rich. Money is cool and all, but it's not everything.

I don't really feel bad about them getting screwed with taxes though. Those people can afford a lawyer to figure out loopholes in the system.

So, I only feel a little bit bad for them. The rest of the time they can go f**k themselves.

The T wrote: You did it because of me and my questions. That thread is now the stuff of legend. We should all go have a communal orgy...

 

The upper percentile pays less percentage wise on their income, though, because of the laws on capital gains, investment in real estate, etc. A big reason they pay more of the income tax is because they own so much more than everyone else. The top 1% owns 30% of the wealth in the US and it's not in the link, but I've read it elsewhere and you can Google it, the bottom 50% owns like 3%. I don't see how you can say that the rich are getting a bad deal in America, especially with the extension of the Bush tax cuts.

Is there a such thing as a non-communal orgy?

You did it because of me and my questions. That thread is now the stuff of legend. We should all go have a communal orgy...

So, now we know that somewhere around 265-270 pages is where a ProgArchives thread craps out.  We pushed the site to brave new territory and the site blinked.  Bravo, gentlemen.