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Please stop trying to bait me. I know you want to have this argument you know you can win. But I don't. The argument will basically boil down to whether the empirical evidence of whether copyright increases creativity, and that's not something you can empirically measure. So what's the point?

I’m just saying... I was limited in my computer time growing up, and I wasn’t bored.

@S'task I'm not going to talk about it any more anyways. There's no arguing with these people.

That's because I don't believe there's any evidence that copyright law actually incentivizes creation in any way. Also, I do believe that any profit that comes from copyright is a form of rent-seeking. Rent-seeking is the very opposite of productivity. It's sitting back and letting the money...

American conservatives have, historically, been in favor of most of, if not all of, the policies I list. Or are you saying people like Anthony Comstock and Phyllis Schlafly aren’t American conservatives? You can’t sue people who have more money than you. So if Disney really wanted to steal...

No, conservatism and libertarianism don't have "common roots." Conservatism is rooted in the philosophies of Edmund Burke and Joseph DeMaistre. Libertarianism is rooted primarily in the classical liberals like John Locke and the Levellers, anarchists like Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Lysander...

No, that's J. S. Mill's Harm Principle, a principle founded upon some very un-conservative premises. You are not a conservative of any kind. You are a libertarian.

You remind me of those libertarians that booed Austin Peterson because he wanted to ban selling heroin to children. Limited government statism is statism. Nothing will be good enough for you. Also, you claiming I want to “impose my personal preferences?” That’s a major claim you need to back...

Why were you so bored as a child, first of all? Didn’t you have interests?

If they see every critique of a social issue as a call for state action, then they are just plain paranoid. Social conservatives are pretty explicit about what we want to ban or regulate using state power. I should know. On that note, here what I could say: the state cannot legislate virtue. It...

Fair enough. I mean, I just keep seeing this debate between libertarians and conservatives popping up time and again, and I'd like to have a debate on the matter on this website.

If you like, I could start a separate libertarian thread discussing libertarianism.

Okay, let's assume the guy is every bit as authoritarian as you say he is. So what? You haven't refuted his argument at all. Why shouldn't he be allowed to impose his morals on you? Can you prove consoomers have the right to consume how they see fit? Justify your beliefs. Argue for them. If...

@GoldRanger is virtue signaling about how much of a tough guy he is. He'll fight and die for his right to do anything he wants... all the way from Israel, a place most of us don't even live in. Riiiiiiight. From what I can tell, he thinks that any attempt to impose a moral standard onto him...

No, it really isn't. YeahOkayCool is making a sound moral critique of consumerism and the consoomers. You are just being defensive. Then why do you disagree with YOC? It's called Woke Capitalism. It's one of the main reasons why many on the Right are abandoning libertarianism. Capitalists were...

You're acting like a jerk. Stop acting like a jerk. Consumerism and corporate elitism go hand-in-hand though. Large corporations want you to get addicted to their shitty products so that they can keep insulting you while expecting you to wait on hand and foot to buy the next product. See...

How not to be a consoomer: Don't spend your time binge watching shows online, scrolling through social media, or playing video games. Instead, try learning a useful skill or a language, creating art, etc. Don't spend all day behind a desk at work only to come home and sit on the couch...

Willing to kill and die for your ideas, but not willing to argue for them or engage with your opponents intellectually.

That's the million-dollar question, ain't it? I don't believe that the consoomer meme is supposed to be someone who happens to consume products, but rather someone beholden to consumerism. Consumerism is the contemporary face of avarice, which drives individuals to define themselves and judge...

I meant, what's your definition of socialism? Does socialism means supporting worker's rights or labor unions?