Tag Archives: Matt Ridley

What’s the Cause of Antisemitism

Jews are special in many ways. Winning nobel price is one of them.

However, fortunately, having large number of people hating them is not one of their special trait.

Evidences:

  1. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=61f_1297089677
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1998_riots_of_Indonesia
  4. http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2007/12/20/massacre-at-mamilla.php

If we study chimps we will see that for primates, hatred is actually natural. It’s what we do against anyone that get in the way of our reproductive success. It’s very understandable.

Prohibition of all victimless crimes (such as being jewish, or smoking dope) in our species are based on simple hatred, which is masked under 1001 pretexts. Some of those pretext is often “love” of the victim, which is utter BS.

Will There Be Less Prostitution if Polygamy is Legal?

I think what the muslim really claim is that when polygamy is legal then prostitution will go away. That is very obvious because things that people do that used to be called prostitution is now called marriage.

However, that’s misleading. The issue is government still interfere in all kind of marriage whether polygamy and monogamy and that would still make most people worst off. It’s not the poly that’s the issue. It’s the “gamy” and government’s “blessing”, “interferences”, and “regulations” that comes with marriage that prevents people from maximizing their selfish interests.

The short answer is yes. To add more details: