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Comment on Christian Science by Benjamin Marks

Benjamin Marks — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:10:00 +0000

Matt: Poor Mencken not receiving the blessing of POTUS. Also, Mencken is far less of a Social Darwinist than you and the President, as he for example opposes all the counter-productive welfare protections for the poor that ended up entrenching their poverty rather than helping them escape it. For example, what do you think of this short video opposing the minimum wage?

Comment on The More Abundant Dialectic by Benjamin Marks

Benjamin Marks — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:05:10 +0000

Matt: What do you think of this brief essay on the consequential theory of consent implicit in your comment? Also, it is true that attempts to educate the uneducable might not have been supported by Mencken, but he was always happy to laugh at the attempts.

Comment on The More Abundant Dialectic by Matt J.

Matt J. — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:47:35 +0000

Published in 1936? All the more ironic, then, that I first discovered what a major figure Mencken is for American English in a library built by WPA funds and workers — it never would have been built if Mencken had had his way.

Comment on Christian Science by Matt J.

Matt J. — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:43:00 +0000

Mencken certainly had some great lines in this article, but on the whole, the philosophy he is arguing for is disastrous. It also stands out how Mencken, openly espousing eugenics, is himself providing an excellent example of what the President complained about in modern ‘conservatives’: they they are Social Darwinists.

Mencken would never have admitted it, but that IS a bad thing.

Comment on Appendix 1: Arguments Mencken Did Not Use That Justify His Position — MC Part 16 by Greg Lindsay on “The vacuum of libertarian scholarship” « Economics.org.au

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:23:26 +0000

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Comment on Christian Science by hans tholstrup

hans tholstrup — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:56:33 +0000

Having grown up with parents who adopted me after they – allowed the death of their children – as no doctor was called, how I were allowed to have been adopted by such people, I dont know, the fact that they also had a rplacement doughter of their own, is not something we should interfeer in, but I would agree with some protection of children being adopted.

And I agree that Christian Science ( not that it is any Science ) should be allowed to ask a fee, as that might put them in to a responsbility bracket.

But as Government always interfeer never for the better, I dont see that change soon.

Comment on Conservatism and Libertarians — MC Part 15 by Mencken on Egyptian Politics and Queensland Floods « Economics.org.au

Mencken on Egyptian Politics and Queensland Floods « Economics.org.au — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:00:24 +0000

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Comment on Appendix 2: A Menckenian Strategy for Libertarian Activism — MC Part 17 by Earn $$$$$ by Justifying Government Against Anarchocapitalism: Survey « Economics.org.au

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:04:01 +0000

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Comment on Utopia by Sterilization by Ralph Prestage

Ralph Prestage — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:43:52 +0000

Benjamin Marks comment ignores the simple fact that as each child is sterilised there can be no further issue which is the only way that civilisation can be sustained in an acceptable environment. Population growth will be maintained by those that can ignore the attraction of cash for sterilisation The objectors to population control exhibits an ignorance to preserve the remaining meager natural environment. The works of H.L. Mencken will be heralded as the greatest foresight of mankind but disappointed they were not implemented by future generations. The Chinese were intelligent enough to see the futility of unstrained population growth unfortunately condemned by the rest of the world to placate the inordinate media support of the loud uninformed minority.

Comment on Mencken’s Motives and Expectations — MC Part 3 by Tweets that mention Mencken’s Motives and Expectations — MC Part 3 | H.L. Mencken Information -- Topsy.com

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:37:32 +0000

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