A nationwide parent group called for the removal of Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang's "The Vegetarian" from school libraries, arguing that it is harmful to minors.
In a statement released Tuesday, the Confederation of National Parents' Associations said, "A book with extreme and violent content should not be placed in elementary, middle or high school libraries simply because it was written by a Nobel laureate."
I sincerely hope book banning does not become a thing here too.
Do you think the state should decide which books are ok to read my youth and which ones are not. Sincerely asking, as there seems to be a certain level of overlap between bitcoiners, free speech absolutists and conservatives in the US.
I don't get the hype around imaginary chains like statechains, space chains, drive chains, galaxy chains, Arc, etc.
Perhaps I'm a moron or perhaps I've seen enough BS in the past to not care (other merge mining projects), or perhaps I'm a lightning maxi. But anyone can give a tl;dr on why it is worth exploring despite the trade offs?
The FDA because it holds a monopoly like the CDC is subject to corruption in ways that would be harder to accomplish if it were market governance.
I recall listening to Bob Murphy and Tom Woods talk about this drug journal that has a very long history of finding issues with drugs 6-12 months before the FDA even looks at them. Some of the issue is with the lack of competition and part is the susceptibility for corruption because of the centralization.
I have a question for you. Do you look at Yelp and Google reviews of a restaurant or do you look up their grade by the health department. Can we not imagine how much better it would be to have multiple decentralized health reviews on restaurants? We have many examples of voluntary private review of businesses.
Another example is lab door. A great resource for looking at the quality of vitamins and supplements. One of the other issue I think of in the area is how the state monopoly and their re-enforcement of the expertise leads people to trust institutions they should be skeptical of. Most people are more skeptical of private businesses but less skeptical of government institutions like the FDA or CDC. I believe we'd be better off with competing institutions that are voluntary. The masses need to be more skeptical. We are conditioned to trust our governments. Businesses have to win our business. The state does not. We should be skeptical of both but the pysop of the state and its education system conditions us against viewing the state as a ruler. The system is designed to make us believe that we are the state. That the government is us. It is not. That's the larger lie.
Keep asking questions. I think the state has helped in some situations. I just believe on the whole the damage has been greater than the benefit. I don't think anyone would argue that if you got rid of one company the world would end, but this is the mentality about the state by its defenders.