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What Does the Mirror of Democracy Reflect?

N.B. I am not Davy Many people will often uphold democracy as true freedom. They will say democracy is representative of “the people”, that it is for “the people” and that it reflects the needs of “the people”. Some “libertarians”, who disagree, may say that democracy is 51% or more of the population against 49% or [...]

The ethics of Idiocy (Life Boat Scenarios and Libertarianism)

EDIT 02 JULY 2012: After Nielsio (who I really respect) disagreed with me on how useful a video like the one Stef posted really is, I encouraged him to put something out of his own and he’s done just that. This is an extremely thought provoking 1 hour discussion on the Topic of Life Boat [...]

Jimmy Carr is morally right

[WARNING: The following article contains images that some people may (and should) find disturbing. If you don't want to see fairly graphic images then stop reading now or scroll down with a soft touch] David Cameron has described Jimmy Carr as “Morally wrong” for allegedly paying  as low as 1% on his income taxes thanks [...]

Do you believe the state should license the right to have children?

Question: Do you think the state should regulate who has children and who doesn’t? If your answer to this is no, then I agree. I would guess that a large majority of people would answer the same. Most people feel like this is intuitively wrong. That it would be almost totalitarian. However if I were [...]

Want to know why you shouldn’t discuss politics at the dinner table?

I’m going to cross post this here because I think it’s important. I originally posted this on my FB wall: WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU SHOULDN’T DISCUSS POLITICS AT THE DINNER TABLE? So if two people have a disagreement about their favourite film or their favourite ice cream or their preferred colour of duvet cover [...]

A Bastardised Attack Against Libertarianism

NB, I am not Davy. Not exactly sure what prompted it, but good golly is George Monbiot not mincing any words about his thoughts on Libertarianism over at the Guardian. Sadly, all we get is a horrible collection of misrepresentation, straw-man arguments, demagoguery, and outright misunderstanding of basic Libertarian principles. Let’s take this a bit [...]

Apathy as the state shows no limit to its evil & malice

I think the reason I haven’t written any articles lately is partly because nothing surprises me anymore and seriously thinking about UK issues and writing long pieces on the topics is just frustrating. I could have written about the London riots but I feel like I’ve been saying it all over and over again. The [...]

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