Would Adam Smith be a Republican or a Democrat today?

[Truth Detector]

There is a word for people who say they do everything for their own benefit --> selfish.

I don't buy for a nanosecond that everyone on the planet is purely self interested
at all times and acting solely for their own benefit.

If so, then you have zero comprehension of human behavior and what motivates it.

You're a mentally unstable emotionally and ideally confused Marxist with this fantastical notion that there is a utopia out there. It just needs to be forced down everyone's throats by like minded mentally unstable progressive leftists who know better than everyone else what is good for them.

No thank you.

 

[Yakuda]

There is a word for people who say they do everything for their own benefit --> selfish.

I don't buy for a nanosecond that everyone on the planet is purely self interested
at all times and acting solely for their own benefit.

Good grief! So I'm selfish if I take a job that they pay me to do? That's asinine. Self interest and selfish aren't the same.

Then you would be a fool. I also said previously that if people are only self interested that is not good. You're letting your emotions get the best of you here. Slow down and think. You keep assuming things such as self interest and selfish are the same or that acting in ones self interest.always brings about success.

 

[Cypress]

What Marx and Lenin despised is what is better known as Classical Liberals. Look up the definition of Classical Liberals
if you're a bit confused.

Nope. The "classical liberals" were replaced in Europe the late 19th and early 20th century by social democrats, a more progressive kind of liberalism that took into account labor rights and social welfare.

By the late 19th century and early 20th century when Lenin and Marx were around, they were reacting negatively towards social democrats and democratic socialists.

 

[Kafka]

^Sophistry.

No.

There is a reason we have the word "selfish" in the English language. The word does not exist for no reason at all.

Correct. But that has nothing to do with my point.

 

[Kafka]

...valuable content.....

QED.

 

[Truth Detector]

I don't think you understand the sheer criminality and graft fiat currency enables.

I don't think you are educated enough to understand economic principles and common sense.

sound currency means an elite cabal couldn't print money for what they want and make the rest of us pay for it while debasing the currency.

That is not what I asked. I asked you what, in your simplistic little world, would you suggest to replace it with?

fiat currency is defacto totalitarianism.

Another lunatic claim lacking any factual or reality basis.

no amount of you wiggling around can change that.

Yet here you are pounding your tiny little fists on the table refusing to answer a very basic question; what then do you feel should we replace it with?

you're just a fascist totalitarian at the end of the day, dark woods and fancy suits don't change it.

There you go with your predictably stupid brain-dead tantrum laced rants again. Scarecrows love their strawmen and when confronted by their ignorance and stupidity, resort to them.

neocons have this totalitarian fascism problem.

I think you have a thinking problem. Small brain? Low IQ?

" oh if we don;t have counterfeit money we'll have to carry around bag of gold", is dumb idiocy you know is a lie.

Yet, here you continue to pound your tiny insignificant little fists on the table and not answer my question; what would you argue should replace it?

 

[Truth Detector]

not being fascist.

disallowing the crime of fiat currency.

.....and replace it with what, for the third time?

 

[Cypress]

Good grief! So I'm selfish if I take a job that they pay me to do? That's asinine. Self interest and selfish aren't the same.

Then you would be a fool. I also said previously that if people are only self interested that is not good. You're letting your emotions get the best of you here. Slow down and think. You keep assuming things such as self interest and selfish are the same or that acting in ones self interest.always brings about success.

There is a reason we have the word "selfish" in the English language. The word does not exist for no reason at all. We use it for people who only act in their own self-interest or strictly for their own benefit and enjoyment.

English also has the words "obligation" or "responsibility" which you are totally ignoring, which are frequently used in moral, social, religious contexts.

There are about one thousand things that would "feel good", provide more enjoyment, be more self-interested than going to volunteer to serve inmates in State prisons, distributing humanitarian relief in Gaza, or refusing to tell Nazi interrogators you are hiding a Jewish family in your basement.

 

[Truth Detector]

I have provided as much if not more content to this thread than just about anyone else.

Stop lying about everything.

I would agree that at least you are trying to have a debate. Cypress, he's more adept at whining, trolling his own threads and banging his tightly clenched tiny little fists on the table.

 

[Kafka]

There is a reason we have the word "selfish" in the English language. The word does not exist for no reason at all. We use it for people who only act in their own self-interest or strictly for their own benefit and enjoyment.

English also has the word "obligation" or "responsibility" you are ignoring, which are frequently used in moral, social, religious, ethical contexts.

There are about one thousand things that would "feel good", provide more enjoyment, be more self-interested than going to volunteer to serve inmates in State prisons, distributing humanitarian relief in Gaza, or refusing to tell the Nazi interrogators you are hiding a Jewish family in your basement.

Why are you so rigid on any given philosophical topic? I don't think I've ever seen any evidence that you ever think about a point once you have found your favorite expert to quote.

It's like you are incapable of thinking about the points other people pose if they aren't famous philosophers.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Good grief! So I'm selfish if I take a job that they pay me to do? That's asinine. Self interest and selfish aren't the same.

Then you would be a fool. I also said previously that if people are only self interested that is not good. You're letting your emotions get the best of you here. Slow down and think. You keep assuming things such as self interest and selfish are the same or that acting in ones self interest.always brings about success.

More proof you're a fucking moron, Yak, since that's not what @Cypress wrote.

Consider those in the US military. Most could make more money on the outside, but choose to stay in. Why? Because unlike you, most aren't willing to sell their souls for money.

 

[Truth Detector]

What Marx and Lenin despised is what is better known as Classical Liberals. Look up the definition of Classical Liberals
if you're a bit confused.

.......... the political-philosophical doctrine which holds that the central problem of politics is the protection of individual freedom or liberty.

This is why I try to correct people when they call leftist progressive dunces liberals. There is nothing "liberal" about the Democratic Party.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Why are you so rigid on any given philosophical topic? I don't think I've ever seen any evidence that you ever think about a point once you have found your favorite expert to quote.

It's like you are incapable of thinking about the points other people pose if they aren't famous philosophers.

I do not see how @Cypress is that rigid although I can see why you never graduated college, Perry. Is it because you have a below average IQ? Didn't have the money? Dropped out of HS? What was the reason, Perry?

 

[Truth Detector]

^Sophistry.

That would describe your posts perfectly.

There is a reason we have the word "selfish" in the English language. The word does not exist for no reason at all. We use it for people who only act in their own self-interest or strictly for their own benefit and enjoyment.

And yet, many times when one acts in their own self-interests, they help many others in doing so. I wish you knew what you are bloviating about. It would make your threads less puerile and juvenile.

 

[Lao Tse]

.....and replace it with what, for the third time?

sound currency.

why are you all in totalitarianism and not even interested in an alternative.

are you some kind of deep state fucko?

 

[Truth Detector]

QED.

My bad. I shouldn't make people cry.

 

[Lao Tse]

That would describe your posts perfectly.



And yet, many times when one acts in their own self-interests, they help many others in doing so. I wish you knew what you are bloviating about. It would make your threads less puerile and juvenile.

but sometimes it's just being selfish, like not admitting fiat currency is totalitarianism.

 

[Truth Detector]

More proof you're I'm a fucking moron,

Fixed this to be truthful.

Yak, since that's not what @Cypress wrote.

Consider those in the US military. Most could make more money on the outside, but choose to stay in. Why? Because unlike you, most aren't willing to sell their souls for money.

So people who work to pay the taxes required to even keep a military are merely selling their souls for money? I suppose to the people who go into the military are all honorable and unselfish people with no self-interests?

You are too severely stupid to even comprehend how stupid an asinine your posts are.

 

[Truth Detector]

I do not see how @Cypress is that rigid although I can see why you never graduated college, Perry. Is it because you have a below average IQ? Didn't have the money? Dropped out of HS? What was the reason, Perry?

More third grade thread trolling from the "projectionist". I don't think you can post without projecting, looking ignorant and lying your mentally challenged dumb ass off.

 

[Truth Detector]

sound currency.

That is a meaningless statement. What is a "sound currency?" Be specific.

why are you all in totalitarianism and not even interested in an alternative.

Why are you bloviating moronic strawmen and refusing to answer my very simple question?

are you some kind of deep state fucko?

Are you some kind of mentally unstable moron?