3183 A Waiter Without a Restaurant - Call In Show - January 20th, 2016

Question 1: [1:36] - “You assert that the redistribution of wealth and/or transfer of property rights from the bourgeoisie (owning class) to the proletariat (The working class) necessarily uses forces in violation of the non-aggression principle, but doesn't the exploitation of labor by the owner do much of the same thing, or at minimum have the same effect. Could one claim that the working class expropriation of the means of production be considered self-defense under the non-aggression principle?”Question 2: [1:15:45] - “In my current view, I think our society would probably be better off with a lot more spanking, so I'm curious why you think spanking is bad. I would argue that the role of parents, from a biological point of view, should be to raise competent offspring who will survive and carry on the genes: not to ensure that their children have "rights" or are "free" or are pleasantly sheltered from the harshness of reality.”Question 3: [1:54:50] - “Am I deluded for believing there is another sentient entity more powerful than humans? In the same way that lab mice are oblivious to their captivity and experimentation, is it reasonable to consider a similar environment might have been constructed for humans? The infinitesimally small intelligence of mice relative to human IQ prevents mice from conceptualizing their captivity. In the same way, humans would be unable to conceptualize their captivity in an environment constructed by an Intelligence that dwarfs their own. Furthermore, since morality is a product of our capacity for reason, it would follow that a more intelligence entity might possess a higher, if not abstractly different level of morality?”