Quote from: mambosun on December 17, 2011, 08:54 pmHe's firmly against women's right to choose and believes that global warming is a hoax. In a world of over-population and rapidly degenerating natural environments, I believe these two issues are of top importance and his conservative leanings just aren't going to cut it for the future.Fuck Ron Paul.Once you start subjectivizing the definition of "life", you leave it up to the bureaucrats to decide who is technically "alive" and who is not, and on what basis. Are we talking 100% dependency? Are we talking underdevelopment? Any of these definitions can be translated into the world outside of a woman's uterus. Plus it's outright murder, and I think the only policy for anyone who takes the Non Aggression Principle seriously is the "eviction policy" - if you are a landlord and you want to evict a tenant, you can't just go into the living room with a shotun, blow a whole through their chest and dump them in the garbage bins out back. You have to evict them. Same goes for a baby. If we got government the fuck out of medicine and stopped creating this massive moral hazard (which is also essentially genocide, 40 million babies aborted since the 1970's later), the market would then be allocated to solving this problem WHILE recognizing the innate right to life and every human being has. Currently we are at about 2 months prior to full term that a baby can be safely "evicted" from the mother. I would be willing to bet this could be brought back much much farther, because there would be a huge market incentive to provide this type of innovation. We could easily get to a point where a woman finds out she is pregnant at 2-3 months, and 6 weeks later the child is evicted and nobody gets murdered.As for the rape argument, that's basically saying that someone's emotions outweigh a human life. If I am absolutely traumatized because someone robbed me, tied me up, beat me, locked me in a room for three days so I could lie there and piss and shit myself, do I automatically have the right to kill their 6-year-old son? If you want to kill anyone, kill the fucking rapist, not the baby.The only valid place for abortion is when there are medical complications that risk the life of the mother or fetus. As of last year, this makes up about 4% of abortions. 40,000 out of 1,000,000 babies killed for a legitimate reason.Global warming is a complete hoax. It is the same as "global cooling" in the 1970's. It is broad society's reaction to elevated price signals in commodity markets that (sans fiat legal tender monopoly and the magic of fractional reserve banking/unlimited credit) normally signal serious shortages. Overpopulation is the same thing. People have been calling for overpopulation crises since the 1800's, just like they have been publishing that we are going to run out of oil since the late 1800's. It's just hype. The absolute butchering of the evidence that supports the global warming theory should be enough to raise some massive red flags (not to mention that the other two major "warm periods" on human history actually ended up being massive eras of expansive prosperity).I wouldn't think Ron Paul is a "convservative" in the modern sense of the word. He doesn't believe in the imposition of any values by force, except those rights which are innate because we are human. And if you are going to critique him on economics, you should learn economics first, becuase the Austrian school was literally the only one on the planet who have been calling for all of the major crises we face today. The monetarists and keynesians have their heads so far up their ass, thinking that they can push buttons and run a press and everything is going to be great again.Those are some pretty weak ideals to base anything in this life on. I'm not for the political solution, but in 100 years the institution known as the state will hopefully be regarded as the bane of human existence and prosperity, and Ron Paul has had a lot to do with exposing that.