APP - 'How Things Work'

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midcan5

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I didn't follow this site, but was surprised recently when it was closed through law suits. Most of the political sites on the web consist of pure BS, so why this site. Interesting, what do freedom loving libertarians think?

The billionaire that killed this site is a libertarian? I thought libertarians loved freedom. Could enough money and lawyers bring down....

"The founder of Gawker bows out, and reflects on lessons learned. “The chief rule of establishment journalism is the one that recommends against pissing off billionaires. Gawker did overextend itself, as an enterprise. We were internet exceptionalists, believing that that from blogs, forums and messaging would emerge a new world of unlimited freedom to associate and to express. As our experience has shown, that freedom was illusory. The system is still there. It pushed back."

http://gawker.com/how-things-work-1785604699
 
No replies from the libertarians online here?

There is an element of libertarianism in the alt-right groupings. I have always found it fascinating when you move around the upper classes in America how naive the youngsters seem. When you are born into the privileged, it must create a person who thinks all of life is like his life, and all that is needed is you be like them, freedom loving spoiled children. All you need is freedom, all you need...

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/18/11434098/alt-right-explained


"Core morality tells us that people have a right to what they earn by their own efforts freely exercised. It is this part of core morality that Ayn Rand objectivists, libertarians, and other right wingers tap into when they insist that taxation is slavery... The trouble with such arguments is that nothing is earned, nothing is deserved. Even if there really were moral rights to the fruit of our freely exercised abilities and talents, these talents and abilities are never freely acquired or exercised. Just as your innate and acquired intelligence and abilities are unearned, so also are your ambitions, along with the discipline, the willingness to train, and other traits that have to be combined with your talents and abilities to produce anything worthwhile at all.... We don't earn our inborn (excuse the expression "God given") talents and abilities. We had nothing to do with whether these traits were conferred on us or not. Similarly, we didn't earn the acquired character traits needed to convert these talents into achievements. They, too, were the result of deterministic processes (genetic and cultural) that were set in motion long before we were born. That is what excludes the possibility that we earned or deserve them. We were just lucky to have the combination of hardwired abilities and learned ambitions that resulted in the world beating a path to our door....No one ever earned or deserved the traits that resulted in the inequalities we enjoy - greater income and wealth, better health and longer life, admiration and social distinction, comfort, and leisure. Therefore, no one, including us, has a moral right to those inequalities. Core morality may permit unearned inequalities, but it is certainly not going to require them without some further moral reason to do so." Alex Rosenberg 'The Atheist's Guide to Reality'
 
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