Dismal Moments of Zen Thread

[Doktor Howl]

"You have the right to undervalue your rights."

[Doktor Howl]

If you live long enough, you won't be remembered after you die for the good things you did, because those things won't be good anymore.

[Doktor Howl]

From 2004:

"I knew as soon as I saw the breast that I had to sell. Sell, at ANY PRICE."

So said a senior executive at Merrill Lynch, which led the DOW Jones Industrial Average to drop over 2700 points today on the heaviest trading day ever recorded, blamed on the exposure of Janet Jackson's
right breast on CBS during the Super Bowl.

[Cain]

The reward for hard work well done is more hard work. Do it in half the time and they'll give you a bigger shovel.

[chaotic neutral observer]

If you want to preserve your freedom, you'd best surrender it to the government for safe-keeping.

[hooplala]

The best you can hope for is indifference

[Cramulus]

Nothing is sacred.

[Doktor Howl]

If you are a one-in-a-million person, that means that there are more than 7,600 people just like you.

[Doktor Howl]

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, but there is also a night shift.

[Doktor Howl]

You can't spell sympathetic without pathetic.

[Doktor Howl]

Humans are good at being destructive mostly because we're a cooperative species, which to our wiring is "good".

Nobody built the bomb. WE built the bomb.

[Doktor Howl]

If a free market - as described by free market proponents - were possible then by that definition, that's what we would have, because any attempt to prevent it or dislodge it would be derailed by market forces.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

If a free market - as described by free market proponents - were possible then by that definition, that's what we would have, because any attempt to prevent it or dislodge it would be derailed by market forces.

Same thing goes for "true Libertarianism" because there'd be nobody around to stop monopolies and police departments from just forming out of thin air

[Doktor Howl]

If a free market - as described by free market proponents - were possible then by that definition, that's what we would have, because any attempt to prevent it or dislodge it would be derailed by market forces.

Same thing goes for "true Libertarianism" because there'd be nobody around to stop monopolies and police departments from just forming out of thin air

The two are indistinguishable in any way whatsoever.

[Faust]

If a free market - as described by free market proponents - were possible then by that definition, that's what we would have, because any attempt to prevent it or dislodge it would be derailed by market forces.

Same thing goes for "true Libertarianism" because there'd be nobody around to stop monopolies and police departments from just forming out of thin air

Isn't that how the police force literally started, the thief taker became organised