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Re: Are Bitcoiners Neoliberals?
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rugrats
on 03/11/2014, 05:15:51 UTC
Your reading comprehension… I'll just point out two problems so I can save myself considerable time walking you through what you should have learned in maybe high school grammar classes, because at this point we’re not even talking about the issues, we’re just struggling with your illiteracy. I’m not your grammar teacher, go back to school.

So in other words, since I have debunked all of your ridiculous, and at times, extreme and illogical notions, the issue is suddenly my “reading comprehension”. Is that also the reason why you dishonestly cherry pick my posts and deceptively quote me out of context? If I go “back to school” and improve my 'literacy', would that make you a more honest and thoughtful poster?

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then you've painted a picture that it's either prostitution or death and the last thing they might be able to turn to is charity.
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You created that scenario, then you mischievously assign it to me.

Really, I mischievously assigned it to you? Did I mischievously sneak in that “then” and those 3 other points that led up to that?

What do you think I meant with the word “then”? Well let’s look at the whole context shall we?
You wrote the bolded bit and the three other points, genius. Not me. The only thing I am not sure of is whether you are lying, or just simply forgot (unlikely, since it's been just a day).

4.) Is there any chance of charity?
If on the off chance there was literally no better option than sex trafficking, then you've painted a picture that it's either prostitution or death and the last thing they might be able to turn to is charity.
If there is no chance for charity, then what do you want me to say? There's nothing that can be done for these people, and they're certainly not better off by being strong-armed out of jobs that are terrible and immoral, but are at least keeping them alive.
Moron, you are quoting yourself. I didn’t write that – hence why I said “You created that scenario, then you mischievously assign it to me.”

I was walking through scenarios that would give us a different understanding of the situation, depending on what the situation is, because “Should a 12-year old fuck a 40-year for money?” depends on a lot of factors, so I said “If on the off chance there was literally no better option than sex trafficking, then you’ve painted a picture that it’s either prostitution or death and the last thing they might be able to turn to is charity.”
One more time – moron, you are quoting yourself (again). I didn’t write that – hence why I said “You created that scenario, then you mischievously assign it to me.”

So you taking that position depends on whether this 12 year old was in the off chance situation of having literally no other options other than sex trafficking or death (through starvation).
I didn’t paint you in it, force you in it, or do anything “mischievous” by any normal standards.
Moron, you wrote the posts; the words are yours. I didn’t write them. After writing the post, you then claimed I wrote them one day later, and went on to argue against yourself.

Here they are:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=827010.msg9403771#msg9403771
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=827010.msg9406005#msg9406005

The other problem you have is with both mainstream economics and Austrian Economics. You keep trying to say that because I can’t prove something empirically, I have lost all credibility.
Not ‘something’ – specifically, voluntary charitable contributions in a tax free society and how the current almost non-existent private welfare is superior.

You can’t predict how society will react towards the poor in a tax free environment.

You would get laughed out of any serious economics class if you said something like this, because you could say this to any mainstream or Austrian economics professor and it would be true. That doesn’t discredit our entire understanding of economics, any more than it discredits my position on the welfare system.
No, I wouldn’t. No “mainstream or Austrian economics professor” would dare make such a ludicrous claim. Besides, didn’t you yourself say
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“Austrian Economics cannot predict with utmost certainty outcomes in a marketplace because marketplaces are inherently chaotic and unpredictable.”
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“the well-established fact that economics is not testable”

Now, it would be a fair criticism that I hadn’t made a connection all the way from praxeology to the welfare system, but I certainly can’t do that in a forum post, and the way Austrian Economists understand economics gives them a different way of addressing economic problems that avoids the empirical issue, but again, the fact that economics is empirically untestable or predictable is pretty much a universally accepted fact of economists.
First, duh. Second, aren’t you contradicting your owns words one paragraph above?
Third, we are not talking about economics. We are talking about your a radical societal sociopolitical and psychological change involving the welfare system in a tax free environment.

The fact that you don’t see this connection either again reflects your reading comprehension issues, or a deeply flawed understanding of economics (Probably a combination of both). Don’t debate this with me, go debate this with the entire Economics profession.
Big talk from someone who doesn’t even understand the term ‘diminishing marginal utility”. Once again, we are not having an economic discussion here.

The original question @turvarya asked you was "Should a 12-year old fuck a 40-year for money?"
It's a simple yes or no question.

No, it really isn’t. I walked through 4 different steps that would lead to different answers depending on what the situation is.
It is probably immoral because I don’t think 12 years old is old enough to consent, but the whole “consent” issue for what age group is a gray area that I haven’t seen a really good answer to from anyone. It is certainly immoral in my society.
So doing this whole “yes or no” thing for this very complex issue just reflects a very puerile and not well considered moral philosophy.
This is not a matter of consent. This is not a complex issue. A 12-year-old girl is not mentally, emotionally and physically prepared to fuck a 40-year old. Even a 12-year-old is starving, you should feed her instead of asking her to choose between fucking a 40-year-old man or starving to death. I am not a violent man by any stretch of the imagination, but I would literally risk my life to prevent a psychopath or a pedophile from taking sexual advantage of a 12-year-old girl. I am sure most rational, sane people would react the same way.

So. I wish you the best in luck in all your endeavors, but I can’t continue with this because you’ve demonstrated a lack of reading comprehension, a lack of basic knowledge of economics, and very poorly considered moral philosophy. You don’t need to be doing debates, you need to be taking some basic level English, Economics, and Philosophy courses. Cheers.
Dumbfruit, the reason why I easily poked holes in your juvenile grasps of economics is because one of my degrees is in Economics. I originally held myself back on several occasions so I don’t embarrass you. But when you started to cherry pick my posts and misquote me after failing to offer any substantiation for your radical, extreme and cruel notions, I had no choice but to call you out.

Moreover, if I am so dumb, what does it say of your own mental capacity, considering you failed to substantiate any of your arguments against me?

And for heaven’s sake, if you’re going to quote from a book, make sure you at least read it first instead of just copy pasting. See how foolish you ended up looking with Leeson’s book?

Finally, one word of advice for you. Don’t let anyone on this forum know your real identity. Because if your earlier posts about sex with minors ever gets out, you can pretty much kiss goodbye to any chance of a respectable professional career. Not only that, your extended family, neighbors and community members might also take preventive actions against you.