Is it really too late to achieve freedom from coercion on our planet?

Vote Individualists Party. Take back your individual rights. That’s the only way to fight the irrationality of the Greencompoops. We all need to be free of coercion, so that those who disagree with the Greens’ idea can be free to fund the nuclear power plants, the intelligent recycling research that’s desperately needed and all kinds of as yet unimagined inventions and discoveries that our species is capable of creating and detecting.

Those who disagree with the environmentalists simply need to be free from coercion by those who agree with them. When a persuasive argument is needed to raise the funds that pay those research grants, then let those who truly agree put the money in the pot for them. Stop taking MY money to pay for things with which I disagree.

That’s how I feel.

Tha’s the message I send to The Powers That Be when I vote for the Individualists Party. The thing our planet needs more than anything is Individual Right not to be coerced into funding or supporting that which one does not support.

End the Taxation System of Government Funding NOW.

Let’s conduct a small experiment.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) estimates that there are approximately 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. Other sources put that figure as low as 700 million. Regardless, let’s assume that approximately one-sixth of the earth’s 6B population is Muslim.

That’s a lot of people.

I will further assume that you are not a Muslim.

Please share with us, as a non-Muslim, what gives you the ability to assess whether that religion presents a true and accurate accounting of of the origin of man, man’s responsibility to one another, a universal moral code, and a set of beliefs that determine where one will spend the hereafter, or whether there even is a hereafter.

Oh, and please use only citations from accepted Muslim literature and the viewpoints of Muslim believers as you assess the veracity of Islam.

Now, compare these demands against those you have required of Caruba. See any similarities?

Mr. Mulligan, as usual, did a fine job of asking some very pointed questions, which you can add to my questions here.

We await your answer.

If you read past articles by Caruba, or spend even a cursory amount of research time on Google, you can find what you’re looking for. Understanding science, the scientific method, and taking into account relevant research and facts all qualify Mr. Caruba, or anyone else, to dismiss what a scientist tells them on any given subject. Scientists are not modern prophets. Sometimes they get things wrong. They have agendas. They vie for money. They manipulate data. They conduct bad research. I have a feeling that you would be mortified at someone taking the word of a religious authority at face value without examination. Why should we take that approach to science? What qualifies you to dismiss opposing viewpoints and research? If lay people aren’t qualified to reject speculative scientific research, what makes them qualified to accept it? If discrepancies arise in science, which parties whim do we put ourselves at the mercy of?