People accurately predict IQ based only on facial features.
www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2014/04/11/if_he_looks_stupid_he_probably_is_108592.html
Daily Archives: 15 April 2014
“free-ride-a-tarian”
From a FB argument:
“If libertarians continue to insist that 1) libertarian ideas are deep abstractions with only distant and complex relationships to the tangible world 2) that violence is a vice instead of a virtue 3) that society can be build upon the non-aggression principle alone.
Then libertarians will continue to 1) fail 2) make fools of themselves.
They are trying to achieve liberty at a discount. They are fraudulently pretending that they live on Robinson Crusoe’s Island, sheltered by the violence of an ocean.
The best they’ll achieve (if lucky) is free riding on the effort and sacrifice of people more willing to defend the social norm of property — the aristocrats. I would not call such people ‘libertarians’ I would call them ‘free-ride-a-tarians’ or ‘parasite-arians.'”
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To put it another way, my criticism is that it’s unhelpful to pretend the private property rights are somehow “natural” or extensions of our biology or given to us from “nature or nature’s God.”
Nature is a very harsh place. Property rights are fought for and won and protected.
It is unhelpful to pretend otherwise.