<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 3:34 AM Rafal Smigrodzki <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>So you have the right to exclude anyone you don't approve of from inhabiting the planet Earth, your "home".</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>### Yes, obviously.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Is it just you or do I have that right too? If I don't want to associate with you in my "home" do I have the right to kick you off the planet Earth and send you into death? </font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>>>> </i></span><i>So let me ask you the question again - according to you, at which level of organization do I lose the right to exclude others?</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>Level 42.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>### Ah, yes, all this sound and fury, the moral certitude,<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>the supercilious comments</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">I admit it, at this point I'm more interested in practical polacy questions (like what maximizes my survival chances) than I am debating which branch of libertarian theology is morally superior. As for certitude, even when dealing with questions that have unique objective answers one can be absolutely positively 100% certain about them and still be dead wrong, in fact such a thing is very common. To make it even worse you like to ask purely moral questions that have no unique objective answer and are uninterested in the practical consequences of your policies even if they are utterly disastrous. </font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>t<i>he supercilious comments, but when I ask you a simple question about your moral rules, you refuse to answer.</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><font size="4">I'll tell you the exact dividing line between home and not-home as soon as you tell me the exact point between 90 and 900 pounds where a thin man can gain one ounce and be instantaneously transformed into a fat man. </font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> <i>we do not feel free to compel association with others by force.</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">But you <b>*do*</b> feel free to use force to compel others not to associate with you in your "home" even if your "home" is every square inch of the only known inhabited planet in the observable universe. </font></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>we distrust large organizations, especially ones that can use violence, propaganda and intimidation.</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Does that include Fox News and The National Enquirer? </font></div></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><font size="4"> </font><i></i></span><i>I do not know if the economy will flourish insanely thanks to AI, or if it implodes in the runaway debt-and-tax spiral</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I can't predict the future in any detail, but I do know if AI continues to develop, and the only thing that could stop it is if we destroy ourselves first, then it will produce astronomical amounts of wealth. I don't know how that wealth will be distributed but I do know some ways will produce great social instability and some less.</font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span> I do know that many illegal immigrants are less intelligent, more violent than the current majority of Americans,</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Did you gain that knowledge from reading tea leaves or by inspecting the entrails of sacrificed animals?</font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>It's stupid to have illegal immigration that biologically and culturally replaces our society. It goes against the libertarian principle of freedom of association. </i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Take a look at this graph:</font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F20180414_WOC240.png&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fgraphic-detail%2F2018%2F04%2F10%2Fillegal-immigration-to-america-is-rising-again&docid=EYQy6y15gI-PmM&tbnid=sBCWIaYw8m5zbM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiQvvrOz6fiAhVQKa0KHeovD5sQMwhNKAAwAA..i&w=1280&h=757&bih=739&biw=1463&q=illegal%20immigrants%20graph&ved=0ahUKEwiQvvrOz6fiAhVQKa0KHeovD5sQMwhNKAAwAA&iact=mrc&uact=8#h=757&imgdii=HZVe2kTCXsJYTM:&vet=10ahUKEwiQvvrOz6fiAhVQKa0KHeovD5sQMwhNKAAwAA..i&w=1280"> Illegal immigration </a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">The problem of illegal immigration seemed well on its way to being solved but then Trump got elected, intensified the war on drugs and cut off aid to Central American countries causing social upheaval and millions of people fleeing for their lives from starvation and murderous drug cartels.</font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>And again you are trying to bring the discussion down from considering questions in moral philosophy to the level of simple politicking. </i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Bring the discussion down? I am trying, with little success, to get you to elevate the conversation and stop asking pointless questions in moral philosophy that can never have a unique objective answer and have all the importance of calculating the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin; I am trying to get you to help us figure out the best (or at least a better) social policy that *might* enable us to make it through the meat grinder that is the singularity. </font><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><i> </i></span><i>As I told you, I will not engage in a political discussion with you.</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And that sort of attitude is the reason the Libertarian Party has never been able to accomplish anything constructive (I don't consider getting Trump elected to be constructive).</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark </font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>If Trump polemics is the only thing you can do, you have to find another partner. </div></div></div>
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