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In what way did he violate the non-aggression principle? Did he kidnap his wife and hold her hostage? Did he force people to buy or sell property to him at gunpoint? I'm not getting you? I think capitalism is fine. (edit: obviously running for president is a violation of the non-aggression principle, but he had his wife and billions before he ran for office)

I don't get why you think it is silly to want to live in a world where those that are aggressive are shot by their intended victims. That is the world I want to live in. There is a reason the gun is called an equalizer.

Sure you are correct and many people DO have this morality. You've basically just described the ruling class in a socialist society (sit back and have others do work for you). But logic tells me that if everyone had that morality the world would be a place less to my liking. It is physically possible for everyone to not aggress on everyone else, but it isn't possible for every human on earth to sit back and have other humans do all of their work for them. Common sense says that if something isn't generalizable then it can't work as a general rule. So if everyone can't be the rulers, there will be conflict. A world of constant conflict would be less desirable to me.

Slavery violates the nonagression principle. Sure it would be possible for someone to choose to listen to everything I tell them to do and work for me endlessly without pay, but that person wouldn't be a slave, because they would be free to change their mind at any time and just get up and leave. A slave is someone who will be aggressed against if they refuse to work or try to leave.

That is what I assumed as well, that it was a Fidelity imposed limitation. It doesn't bother me much though because the price I get is often a few cents cheaper than my limit and the way I use options a few cents in one direction or the other doesn't matter much. I tend to buy long dated out of the money options. If a few cents mattered then I was wrong on my thesis for buying them.

On Fidelity I can place a limit order only in $0.05 increments, but it is sometimes filled at a better price not divisible by $0.05

Reason isn't random. Take a course in logic, there is nothing random about logic and reasoning. I derive all of my moral and political beliefs from one 1st principle. Sometimes called the Nonaggression Principle. Basically: No one has a right to initiate force or fraud, and no one has the right to delegate the initiation of force or fraud to others. That isn't something handed down to me by a god, I had no vision in a dark cave, I didn't find it on a golden tablet, no angel came to me with the good news. It is just something humans made up and I think it would be a better world if everyone lived according to it. Maybe the fact that I think like this is just some random wiring in my brain. I could be like 99% of people and think that delegating the initiation of force to a government is just fine. The wiring in my brain might be somewhat random, but certainly guided somewhat by genetics and evolution. And I'm just fine with that. I am who I am and I think the way I think. I've changed my mind about stuff before and I may change my mind again. There are no absolute truths. I only like the nonaggression principle because if people obeyed it that would create a world more to my liking.

I could have been 7 feet tall, I could have had red hair, I could have been gay or trans, I could have been born a lot of different ways, but I happened to have been born the way I was. Yes, that is just random chance. I exist and your god doesn't, so yes I think that I am more correct than your imaginary friend.

Probably a few hundred shares of BRKB. I wrote 4/21 $320 covered calls about a month ago, it's 321+ right now. It's in my IRA so no capital gains taxes, so I'll probably buy back my shares on the next down day.

Well, yeah, violent crime has been decreasing steadily for 30+ years, it can go up quite a bit and still be lower than it was in the early 90s.

I've never understood why, for the most part, people who understand the benefits of capitalism and support small government and property rights are for the most part bigots and the people who celebrate personal freedoms are for the most part collectivists of some stripe (socialist, democratic socialist, commies, etc). What's even rarer then trans people is people who support all forms of human freedom. And unfortunately that's no joke.

Protect "the children" from what? Roving gangs of trans kidnappers? The anti-gay conservatives said the exact same thing a generation ago about homosexuals, and two generations ago about brown people. Protect the children my ass. I spent more of an effort to protect my kids from religious conservatism than I did from gays and trans people. In fact we looked for opportunities to introduce our kids to people who were different. Both our kids turned out straight and non-trans (like 90+% of the population does), but they certainly knew that we'd have accepted them regardless of how they chose to live.

When I see people saying things like "those same people are the same people" and making it sound like this is some monolithic group with all the same goals it reminds me of 30 years ago when I first started paying attention to politics the conservative boogeyman was homosexuals with the "gay agenda". Oh my god the gays all want homosexual sex to be considered normal and they are telling our children this. They want the ruin marriage by being able to get married! It all sounded like bigotry to me back then and this all sounds like bigotry to me now. Same thing a generation or two earlier with "mixed-race" relationships. History doesn't repeat, but it sure rhymes.

Those are different issues. I agree with keeping biological men out of women's sports for safety issues and not giving drugs and surgery to minors for the same reason minors shouldn't be allowed to get tattoos. Sure there are nuts on every side, but many conservatives are nuts in the other direction.

I DO pay attention. I pay more attention to conservative press/social media than I do liberal press and social media since I agree with conservatives far more often on issues that I do think are important (taxes, regulations, guns, size of government, etc...) I've heard everything said here and more before. I just don't get why anyone cares or what the threat is. I never said that I don't believe gender is fluid. I have no idea. And, I don't care. I know I feel the same way about my gender every day, but I have no idea what goes on in someone else's head. If someone feels like a man today and a woman tomorrow, who am I to tell them different. AND... why would I care?

I read all of this passionate writing about what this group or that group says or thinks and I just can’t bring myself to care. Not what they do, not what they think, not why they do what they do, or what they might think of me. I didn’t say that I think they are mentally ill, just that it wouldn’t matter to my opinions if they were. I don’t see any threat here to me or kids or anyone. If transgender people were threatening me with violence I’d care, but that isn’t what is getting people all worked up. People are getting all worked up because these people are showing up in public where kids are and want to be called certain pronouns. With all the problems in the world and a federal government that is stealing tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands some years) from me I really don’t care about what some person wears or what they want to be called. The whole issue is so unimportant I can’t even believe anyone cares.

+1, I’ve never understood the argument that transgendered people are just mentally ill. So what? Mentally ill people have just as many rights as anyone else and should be treated with respect, especially if they aren’t hurting anyone. I also don’t get why people thinks this all somehow affects them or their kids. If my kids were still young I’d probably bring them to trans reading hour at the library, they would have gotten a kick out of that. We brought them to Providence Town a few times with a few gay friends of ours when they were little and they had a great time trying to spot the cross dressers. If it’s a mental illness, so be it, they aren’t harming anyone by dressing in unusual clothing for their gender. The conservative view on this harms society far more. It teaches that you only deserve respect if you behave like everyone else and don’t do anything weird or gross. It is the same reason homosexuals were not treated well in the past.

Yeah, and I don't think I convinced anyone to change their minds. Also that thread at least had a subject which said morality from Disney thread or something like that. I agreed that It shouldn't have been in the Disney discussion, just like this shouldn't be in a "leaving NY" discussion.

+1 It's a hot button issue that will not be resolved here. The right gets as worked up over transgenderism as the left does about guns. Right now both sides are reading that statement and thinking "You can't even compare the two! The issue that bothers me is much more important to society than the other one is!" LOL

I always use https://archive.today It archives it then gives you a link to read it. Here's the link for that article: https://archive.ph/VNoYt

Yep. He could have donated that $300M to the US Treasury, but thought that Harvard would make better use of it than the United States Federal Government. I agree. I always ask leftist how much they donate to the Federal Government every year above and beyond what they have to pay. I've never found a single person who thought the government could use their money better than they could or a charity could.

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^^Immigration is always a hot button for many. The fact is that our demographics suck in the US (although not as bad as some other countries), we aren't even having enough kids to replace ourselves. Immigration is the ONLY thing standing in between us and a shrinking population. Yes, it should be far easier to bring in professionals like Doctors and Engineers, and yes it should be far easier to come in if your poor as well. People look down on the immigrants who break the law to come here. I don't. We grew up here and literally didn't lift a finger to get here, while these people risked their lives and freedom to get here. That's the kind of can-do grit I respect. If the laws are stupid, ignore them. As for assimilation, that has always been a problem. People in the 1800s complained that the Irish wouldn't work, they were violent criminals, and even questioned if they should be considered human. They were considered to be nothing but drunkards and criminals. Every wave of immigration from the Irish, to the German, to the Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century created hatred of the main group immigrating in at the time. But immigrants have lots of kids and those kids grow up as Americans. I'm the son of an immigrant myself and I don't speak a word of Portuguese (my father's 1st language) . While he never learned how to read or write in any language, my brother and I are both college graduates and have professional careers. I only have one brother, but some of my father's sisters have as many as 8 kids. Immigrants have lots of kids and while they themselves may not assimilate completely their children do.

Immigration is a tricky issue. Yes, there are many problems with taking in the poor from other countries, crime being a big one, but the problem of a shrinking and aging population without enough working age people to have a healthy growing economy is an even bigger issue in my opinion. There are costs and benefits to immigration, but the benefits are what made the US what it is. We should think long and hard before deciding to kill the goose that's been laying the golden eggs for well over a century.