tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post3317699285872416969..comments2023-10-06T11:13:20.836-04:00Comments on Izgad: Avatar is Not Liberal Propaganda (It is Something Far More Pernicious)Izgadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-74232942467711412882010-02-12T15:24:48.936-05:002010-02-12T15:24:48.936-05:00Good stuff. USA!Good stuff. USA!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-85100424706676917442010-01-02T19:09:10.520-05:002010-01-02T19:09:10.520-05:00“I also want it to protect me from things like bre...“I also want it to protect me from things like breach of contract and various kinds of nonviolent coercion.”<br /><br />Chris<br /><br />Physical harm includes your money. I do want the government to protect me from being robbed. That includes not just some inner city youth mugging me, but also my stock broker. The government protecting me from being robbed is also going include the government Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-84564158918664894802010-01-02T00:17:37.356-05:002010-01-02T00:17:37.356-05:00Hi Ben,
I'm all for privatizing the public sc...Hi Ben,<br /><br />I'm all for privatizing the public schools and such. But I must admit I expect my government to protect me from a lot more than just you raping me to death. I also want it to protect me from things like breach of contract and various kinds of nonviolent coercion. And while a private firm could probably fulfill the same function as the FDIC, I have no complaints about theChristopher Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09539170598198122642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-48624427765030127382009-12-31T23:56:19.857-05:002009-12-31T23:56:19.857-05:00Chris
“It seems to me that you need more than jus...Chris<br /><br />“It seems to me that you need more than just the ability to engage in physical coercion to qualify as a government.”<br /><br />You need to be able to engage in physical coercion unchecked by any higher authority. Explain to my how the corporation on Pandora in the movie is not a sovereign state. It makes its own laws and has its own military to enforce those laws and there is noIzgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-31122621541344779402009-12-31T21:30:22.732-05:002009-12-31T21:30:22.732-05:00Hey Ben,
It seems to me that you need more than j...Hey Ben,<br /><br />It seems to me that you need more than just the ability to engage in physical coercion to qualify as a government. But in any case, the simple fact that corporations <i>could</i> cross that line (and have done so in the past) suggests to me that the danger must be taken seriously.<br /><br />I sometimes describe myself as a libertarian too, but I'm not a hard-line Christopher Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09539170598198122642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-24993713341264430932009-12-31T09:48:57.989-05:002009-12-31T09:48:57.989-05:00i don't have anything substantive to say. I ju...i don't have anything substantive to say. I just enjoy your writing. thanks!coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13411817387328315744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-40427776055585523182009-12-31T09:26:27.907-05:002009-12-31T09:26:27.907-05:00Oh wow, all sorts of people are getting offended b...Oh wow, <a href="http://teaser-trailer.com/2009/11/avatar-racist.html" rel="nofollow">all sorts</a> of <a href="http://io9.com/5422666/when-will-white-people-stop-making-movies-like-avatar?skyline=true&s=x" rel="nofollow">people</a> are getting offended by this movie! Frankly I am not surprised that conservatives have a problem with this. But I can't believe the energy that is being put Miss S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10887805742474651903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-84045135466986144112009-12-30T23:42:06.952-05:002009-12-30T23:42:06.952-05:00Chris
I made the argument in this essay (perhaps ...Chris<br /><br />I made the argument in this essay (perhaps I will expand on it in a full post) that private businesses are by definition entities that do not have the power of coercion. This is a play on the concept of the state having a monopoly on violence. This raises the obvious question when, for example in the movie or the real life cases you mention, you have private businesses wielding Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-59886903224001302622009-12-30T22:06:09.535-05:002009-12-30T22:06:09.535-05:00I wouldn't say that I'm up in arms against...I wouldn't say that I'm up in arms against this movie. When The Da Vinci Code came out in theaters many people in my church boycotted the movie and even held a class explaining why the movie shouldn't be seen. That sort of behavior I would call "up in arms". (Then again, I ended up watching the movie even though I originally didn't have any interest in doing so simply Virginia Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08158916868043267432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-58648002992240135242009-12-30T18:22:34.896-05:002009-12-30T18:22:34.896-05:00I don't see this movie as being against corpor...I don't see this movie as being against corporations, but rather as being against the consolidation of too much power in the hands of a single corporate entity. You said of corporations that "No physical coercion is used." This, however, has not always been true in the history of corporations. And perhaps more importantly, corporations have often used <i>other</i> kinds of Christopher Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09539170598198122642noreply@blogger.com