Comments on: Free Pigs!

By: Tom Mullen

Tom Mullen — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:27:07 +0000

@Steve Palmer – you read my mind as I finished this blog! You left out the second part of the best sentence though:

even in its best state is but a necessary evil;…in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

By: Julie Mercer

Julie Mercer — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:45:13 +0000

Thanks for the clarification–now I get it. And free pig is definitely the way to go.

By: theunknownamerican

theunknownamerican — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:43:40 +0000

I should have said something like:

Economic inventions don't exist because of a common idea but for the economic benefit of its participants.

That probably would have been better.

By: theunknownamerican

theunknownamerican — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:23:47 +0000

A religion is an association formed around a common idea. You can't be in a church and not believe in God. It just doesn't work. A society solely based on free-trade removes the idea mandate to be a member which frees the individual to believe as they choose instead of conforming with the masses theme.

By: Steve Palmer

Steve Palmer — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:06:48 +0000

"Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.", Thomas Paine

By: Julie Mercer

Julie Mercer — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:20:03 +0000

Lonny–I thought the same thing. Maybe it's a typo. To invent something requires an inventor with an idea–right?

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By: Lonny Eachus

Lonny Eachus — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:34:28 +0000

The idea that "economic inventions are completely devoid of ideas" is pretty bizarre. If that were so, we would not have the IDEOLOGIES that make up Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, and so on. Or, for that matter, Austrians, Monetarists, Keynesians, etc.