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  • cryptoMatic

    As much as I enjoy watching informative documentaries on corruption in the government/financial system, it does give you a doom and gloom outlook on everything. I'm trying to cut back but at this point not much is shocking anymore.. The worst part is that I'm sure there are still shocking things that appall normal people who arent aware of most things anyways.

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  • CoinAdd1ct

    @page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeXu3XSM9-c

    The only point I saw to this video was insulting libertarians. Am I missing something here, or was that your intent?

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    @coinadd1ct

    @page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeXu3XSM9-c

    The only point I saw to this video was insulting libertarians. Am I missing something here, or was that your intent?

    I just took the video as putting an emphasis on the doom and gloom part of what I said before.

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    @coinadd1ct @cryptoMatic

    The guy that made the video is a libertarian of sorts, not that I know him. But, he has videos of himself at Porcfest and most of his videos are around the subject of Libertarianism.

    I think the video is up for interpretation, but as a moral nihilist, that has libertarian sympathies I think the video is hysterical. Without a moral basis for Libertarianism there is no justification for the NAP, from that view it can be understood as a violent, chaotic system.

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    @page @coinadd1ct @cryptoMatic

    The guy that made the video is a libertarian of sorts, not that I know him. But, he has videos of himself at Porcfest and most of his videos are around the subject of Libertarianism.

    I think the video is up for interpretation, but as a moral nihilist, that has libertarian sympathies I think the video is hysterical. Without a moral basis for Libertarianism there is no justification for the NAP, from that view it can be understood as a violent, chaotic system.

    Apparently I don't get the video at all. Right over my head. Thank you for the answer.

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    @coinadd1ct

    @page @coinadd1ct @cryptoMatic

    The guy that made the video is a libertarian of sorts, not that I know him. But, he has videos of himself at Porcfest and most of his videos are around the subject of Libertarianism.

    I think the video is up for interpretation, but as a moral nihilist, that has libertarian sympathies I think the video is hysterical. Without a moral basis for Libertarianism there is no justification for the NAP, from that view it can be understood as a violent, chaotic system.

    Apparently I don't get the video at all. Right over my head. Thank you for the answer.

    I am only telling you what I think, I don't know what the intent behind the video is. But, if you go from moral positions for Libertarianism and then move to moral nihilism as a default, you get to see other perspectives of Libertarianism that are not apparent when it is derived through morality alone.

    From other perspectives, say for a classical anarchist, Libertarianism is both oppressive and violent, without a moral grounding there is no way around that. You start to see everything can be reduced to force vs force i.e. a right is impotent without the necessary force to back it up no matter how much you want to believe in it.

    I think that is what the video is about - it is a celebration of Libertarianism from a violent perspective.

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  • timbit

    The best book I've read on libertarianism is called, "Why Government Doesn't Work" by Harry Browne. He was the Libertarian presidential candidate during the 1996 election.

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