CWRE:Needed pages
to research
- "observable science", creationism, and such...
- myths/Global warming is a recent fad. nope
- myths/The price of pharmaceuticals is governed by supply and demand Example: [1]
- irrelevancies/Regulation doesn't prevent abuse Example: [2]
- myths/Minimum wage is racist Example: [3] -- several arguments in that first troll...
- myths/Economic stimulus has failed in Japan (see comment)
- people are never convinced by reason and logic [4]
- myths/taxation is theft
- CO2 is not a pollutant (should this be a myth, an irrelevancy, or both?)
- gay marriage is genocide, gay marriage stops people reproducing
- monolinguism (form of wingnuttery)
large topics
- austerity
- capitalism
- "Capitalism has brought about the greatest advancement of humans in human history." [5]
- freedom
- Too much freedom for one means too little freedom for others.
- Sometimes, restrictions give you more freedom. (Would you rather play frisbee near a cliff-edge with a safety fence, or without one?)
- "You want more freedom, don't you?" ...said the fox to the chickens.
- Freedom to become enslaved
- Marketism/freedom
- socialism
- "Utopian socialism doesn't work, it can't." [6]
- Myths/socialism leads to poverty
- Meaningless insults/socialism
- natural rights: a popular free-marketist idea
- sanest explanation offered so far is that natural rights are those rights which are necessary for a civilization to be sustainable
- broader discussion of "rights" probably belongs in Issuepedia
- I typed up a summary in a comment here
- political ideologies (as opposed to political parties)
background
- piracy is more profitable than production - see this discussion
- property rights are a form of coercion - see this discussion
- expanding rights for one restricts rights for others
videos
add these to Category:Analysis/video when done
pages in production
- work ethic obsession - mainly collecting examples for now
- communism failed at Plymouth Colony - if no further appearances, shelve this as a trolling attempt (or recategorize somehow)
- antitrolling