Recent content by John Galt

Randroids are CRAZY. hahaha zimmerman.

Read the Nick Davies article linked in the OP.

The debate over public healthcare is also relevant here. Once the state is designated as the provider of health services, it is inevitable that it will attempt to regulate goods that are potential health risks in order to keep costs down. This is exactly what we're seeing in Australia now, taxes...

Street meth? It's extremely potent, neurotoxic and addictive. I have to disagree.

cool story bro Okay, the kind of meth we see distributed criminally today. I stand corrected.

Not true. Method of administration represents only one of its dangers.

Meth is unique in a way, as it is a product of the criminal drug market and not a once legal substance that was later criminalised. Taking amphetamines, already a very potent stimulant, and strongly increasing both its bioavailability and concentration, caters specifically to a market in which...

Time for another drugs thread. The War on Drugs is beginning to be widely acknowledged as a failure, and globally changes in the way recreational drugs are approached by governments is changing. This has been occurring for a number of years in Western Europe (eg. Portugal, The Netherlands...

Not Nolan you jerks. He is Planck.

Ooooh neg rep. "Laughing at another post doesn't improve yours" All irrelevant!

Re: Would you join a poltical party Okay JonathanM!

Re: Would you join a poltical party Ahahahahahaha The Liberal Party hasn't traditionally been ideologically socialist, no. What I'm referring to is the tendency of many prominent Liberal politicians to favour big government policies (both economically and socially).

Objectivists are often pathetic, yes.

Re: OKay guys, Australia never 'avoiced' the recession, Rudd was not the hero Muddled how? If you disagree, your view is the muddled one. In answer to your second question, there are countless examples, two of the more prominent being the criminalisation of drugs and the welfare system.

Re: OKay guys, Australia never 'avoiced' the recession, Rudd was not the hero Because government has succeeded in achieving all those objectives? I said universally superior, not universally benevolent or conducive to some utopian ideal. By its very nature, the market is the outcome of free...