Re: your free trade position. Is a willngness to use human slave labor a legitimate comparative advantage?
Over the years I've been a socialist, a libertarian, a liberal, and now I'm a collectivist cockbreath, but this is what I can remember that I've never changed on:
Proportional representation
Free trade and support of immigration
Opposition to the death penalty
I've been pretty much everything except for someone who opposes those things.
So I'm going to start a party, the Free Proportional Death Party. Anyone want to join?
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
Re: your free trade position. Is a willngness to use human slave labor a legitimate comparative advantage?
I stupidly called myself a communist for like 2 seconds while I was 12.
After I actually started learning about politics, I identified more with the liberals than the conservatives. I actually still have an old shirt that said: Proud Liberal.
And once I really had a chance to study history and political theory in depth, I realized the limitations of the modern liberal philosophy. Ever since then I have called myself a libertarian. Within the libertarian movement I am a moderate, but I argue as an anarcho-capitalist or a minarchist depending on how I'm feeling that day.
But overall I believe I do manage to fulfill my primary value in a political belief system: Consistency.
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-Oscar Wilde
I never was a serious socialist. Most of the time whenever I was a socialist I was trying to deal with the problem of having competition and at the same time fixing the inequality problems in our current world. I eventually realized that my Utopia was ridiculous.
My rhetoric changes more than my actual beliefs.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
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