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I would say gender reassignment is extreme enough for society to intervene, but only because more harm will be done to non-true TGs. Unfortunately this results in more harm to true TGs who will now be denied the opportunity to get early treatment.
So from a libertarian perspective do you take away the freedom of the one to protect the five and the hundred? Public policy is “yes”. After all, they want to force vaccination on all of us to protect the 1% who die of Covid. If the left justifies that, how much more should they support banning children from transitioning? The harm to the majority from gender dysphoria misdiagnosis is way more than the risk of vaccine side effects.
correction: the person's gender is not altered. The person's body is mutilated, but until some time in the sci-fi future when you can replace the XY with XX or XX with XY, the gender isn't changed.
As a libertarian I am firmly against the government interfering in medical decisions parents make for their children.
There’s Mooney Michael, and there’s the other Michael. You’re bringing them together. That’s a no-no. You’re killing Independent Michael. We have to keep our worlds separate.
My pleasure.
Does he cover that in chapter 12 of his book "For a New Liberty" or is there a separate discussion he made somewhere else on the subject?
Agree wholeheartedly with the bold parts. The rest I don't disagree with but need to study more.I will be keen to hear what you think of Rothbard’s ideas on this point, when you have the time.
A free market economy like ours trends toward monopolies as economies of scale cause small businesses to gobble each other up until they become one large black hole which is allied with the political class.
I can address that. It’s the absent minded professor syndrome. My father had it. I suppose it would sound like bragging if I said I have it but I believe I do. I can be extremely blind and unperceptive about things around me because my mind is constantly occupied with complex analysis of some topic or another. I think it actually made me a worse pilot, because I tend to over analyze, rather than make quick decisions.
It also leads people to extrapolate all possible futures and hence have more anxiety than the average person about the various consequences of your action or inaction. You can then become overly focused on one thing or another, I believe Michael admits being “paranoid” about gear up landings. He doesn’t mean literal psychotic paranoia, but perhaps a bit closer to a neurotic obsession. Smart people can be quite high in neuroticism because they see reality with all its dangers more acutely than the “fat, dumb, and happy.”
He can give the full details if he cares, but the TL;DR version is he porpoised the Mooney on landing and had a prop strike.I see. He mentioned that back in the old Air Wagner thread. Seems he was forthright about it and took a lot of training to improve. All good things.
Exactly, and Micheal is not immune to landing issues as I recall.Is that right? Interesting. Are there more details which would be useful for others to learn from?
