Not at all. Choosing to buy or not buy from a person, or sell or not sell to a person, is well within your rights. Choosing to use force to prevent a person from buying from or selling to another is not. Easy peasy.

I was with you right up to the last, when you made the leap to your conclusion. the answers seem simple, although you are making a different point?
‘Could you guarantee that the market would make your size shoe? No.” Yes, if I had something of value to trade for it. Latent production capacity will respond to demand in a free market.
“Could you predict how many shoe companies might emerge? No.” Yes. Enough to fill demand.
“Could you predict the prices of the shoes sold? ” Yes. The prices would be set in the exchange between seller and buyer. Over time this price would tend to normalize because of competitive market forces.

So why would I conclude that I should leave it to the state, unles they so completely satisfied the needs of society, that no one had an economic incentive to compete?

We choose not to leave it to the State precisely because they fail to measure up to what the free market system can deliver. The “States” desire to prevent “free-market intervention” into their markets, therefore is “wrong”.

Where am I going wrong?

I’ve seen children all over the world indoctrinated in violent stupidity, momo.

“If you are alluding to some conspiracy by western belligerents using puppet rulers to incite the Muslim population to violence and adherence to barbaric social norms, through the use of religious indoctrination…”

Woof, you’re dumber than I thought. Now I’ve lost all interest.

The treatment of women in much of Islam *and* in much of the West is generally deplorable. And there’s another near parallel between American ghetto culture and Arab ghetto culture that I don’t find to be a coincidence.

What does this even mean?

“Let me tell you how Empire works, son: The best example I know of is during the extermination of all Ute men. After pushing them further and further towards the worthless “Four Corners” area, the gangsters appointed the most vile and Indian-hating governor they could to enrage and provoke them. When the target group almost inevitably does something stupid, that’s the pretext to open up the slaughter. You see, when you apply serious pressure to a group, the hotheads always rise to the top and a very nasty general process is put into the works (as shown in your videos). Works every time, worked really well on the Japanese throughout the 20s and 30s, working great in Gaza today.”

If you are alluding to some conspiracy by western belligerents using puppet rulers to incite the Muslim population to violence and adherence to barbaric social norms, through the use of religious indoctrination, then you’re going to have to provide some serious evidence for that claim. Where do Islamic groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, that call for the restoration of the caliphate fit into all of this?

Let me tell you how Empire works, son: The best example I know of is during the extermination of all Ute men. After pushing them further and further towards the worthless “Four Corners” area, the gangsters appointed the most vile and Indian-hating governor they could to enrage and provoke them. When the target group almost inevitably does something stupid, that’s the pretext to open up the slaughter. You see, when you apply serious pressure to a group, the hotheads always rise to the top and a very nasty general process is put into the works (as shown in your videos). Works every time, worked really well on the Japanese throughout the 20s and 30s, working great in Gaza today.

That was the first one I ran into, asshole. I’ll check these out too, thanks so much.

Morons + mercantilists = permanent war.

Big deal, I don’t want to win, I want to stop being robbed to murder people, I wish you’d smarten up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdLpxmN9SRo

is apparently the Arab Chris Rock. The persecution complexes are very similar, and what do you know, the same bogeyman…hmmm.”

It’s nice of you to pick out the ideal material for erecting a straw men. Must I do the searching for you child?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtt8V25lGmc&feature=related

Are Nonie Darwish and Ayaan Hirsi-Ali tacit warmongers who chase booger men?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmRSE02mwjo

“Now it’s becoming more clear to me, looks like you are another war salesman, unwittingly or not.”

Really? And here I thought that you were trying put forth a spurious argument that would automatically declare you the winner, and shield you from any sort of future criticism. I see that repackaged social contract theories are very popular on this blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdLpxmN9SRo

is apparently the Arab Chris Rock. The persecution complexes are very similar, and what do you know, the same bogeyman…hmmm.

Now it’s becoming more clear to me, looks like you are another war salesman, unwittingly or not.

“I’m also an American who has never crossed the borders of my own county who enjoys exercises in confirmation bias.”

I’d say the most influencial experience in my life was just out of my teens living with peasants in one of the U.S. Empire’s closer, but still outlying plantations. I was there helping rebuild an earthquake damaged Costa Rican church (observing *that* kind of Imperialism is another story) and it was the start of *my* life-long hatred of mercantilism.

Butler Shaffer should stop stroking himself in the Rockwellite echo-chamber and take a look at MEMRI TV for once.