The Machinery of Freedom episode 8- Justice Without Coercion part 1
Wherein the nature and purpose of the current State justice system (police/courts/law) is discussed, how it perpetuates evils in practice, and many historical examples of market justice from history are pointed out and analyzed.
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President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, pointed out the obvious today and stated that US actions abroad push other countries to pursue nukes:
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday blamed U.S. policy for inciting other countries to seek nuclear weapons to defend themselves from an "almost uncontained use of military force."
"Unilateral, illegitimate actions have not solved a single problem, they have become a hotbed of further conflicts," Putin said at the Munich Conference on Security Policy, an annual forum attracting senior officials from around the world.
"One state, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way."
But Putin said it was "the almost uncontained hyper-use of force in international relations" that was forcing countries opposed to Washington to seek to build up nuclear arsenals.
"It is a world of one master, one sovereign. ... It has nothing to do with democracy. This is nourishing the wish of countries to get nuclear weapons," he said.
"This is very dangerous. Nobody feels secure anymore because nobody can hide behind international law," Putin told the gathering.
The Bush administration said it was "surprised and disappointed" by Putin's remarks.
"His accusations are wrong," said Gordon Johndroe, President Bush's national security spokesman.
There is a movement dedicated to bringing about socialized health care in the "United States." Such a movement, as we have seen in "Canada," would ruin the health care market and make it conditional to political considerations instead of consumer demand. And contrarily to statist claims, it drives spending on health care up, up, always up.
To understand why the health care market is fucked up, we need to understand the main considerations of freedom and efficacy in a market, which are (in increasing order of integration):
(1) Peaceful competition.
(2) Division of labour.
(3) Technological progress.
The health care market is under attack by the State on all three fronts.
(1) Insurance companies are not allowed to compete in offering the best packages- they are forced by the State to inflate their prices by providing all sorts of needful and needless treatments. This is all good and well for the big insurance companies, because it prevents competition from smaller and more adaptable insurance businesses. Furthermore, the State favours corporations providing insurance over individual initiative. Both of these drive prices up, make insurance out of the reach of the poor, and prevents competition.
The alternative now proposed by statists- to force people by law to buy insurance- would only drive prices even higher and give more power to the big insurance companies. As usual, statism is corporatism at its finest.
(2) The medical guilds do not prevent vertical division (doctors can specialize in all kinds of areas) but they do prevent horizontal division, thus ensuring that the price of labour remains high.
(3) FDA regulations prevent medical advances in order to fulfill political ends, depriving us of life-saving medications and medical tools.
The Machinery of Freedom episode 1- Introduction to Market Anarchy
Wherein the show is introduced, Market Anarchy is defined, Anarchy is explained, the market is explained, the State's efficacy is debunked, and the Market Anarchist (non-)vision for society is expounded upon.
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The Machinery of Freedom episode 2- The Moral Argument
Wherein morality is defined, the Moral Argument and universality are explained and applied to the actions of State agents, the Non-Coercion Argument is explained, and objections are dispatched.
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The Machinery of Freedom episode 3- Applying the Moral Argument
Wherein the Moral Argument is applied to such fields as war, immigration, taxes, democracy, the law, and so on.
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The Machinery of Freedom episode 4- Our Enemy, the "Common Good"
Wherein the construct of the "common good" is exposed, State functions are debunked, and the Argument from the State of Nature is deployed.
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The Machinery of Freedom episode 5- The Joys of Epistemology
Wherein the equality of epistemology and morality is unraveled, the basic principles of rationality are discussed, the Burden of Proof argument is explained, the topic of morality is cleared up, and the Argument for Freedom is explained.
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The Machinery of Freedom episode 6- Know Anarchy, Know Morality
Wherein I make many analogies between statism and religion, and discuss various points which prove that morality is only compatible with Market Anarchy, including: that statism is based on fear, altruism as moral confusion, collectivism leads to relativism, and the law cannot entail moral obligation.
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The Machinery of Freedom episode 7- Rights and Aggression
Wherein the Non-Aggression Principle and the Chosen Aggression Principle are compared and contrasted, and Hoppe's Argumentation Ethics, the Argument from Estoppel and the failure of rights-skepticism are expounded.
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We already knew this, of course, but it's nice to see that someone else realizes that PETA is pure evil: the Canadian Free Press tells us 7 things you didn't know about PETA.
7) PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, because they support animal-based research that might uncover cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has said that "even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it."
Alternet has an excellent video where a soldier describes the sacrifices they make every day in Iraq 2.0 here. You don't want to miss it.
USA! USA! USA!
