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What would you say the major problem is with /r/libertarian? In my experience, it seems like an alright subreddit for discussion. I can't say my posts there have been too terribly successful, but I'd say much more successful than the rest of reddit.

>I think Brandon Cropper is great, and used to post regularly for years (more than a decade now). He doesn't anymore since youtube demonetized his videos for being "inappropriate".

Yeah, YouTube is going to go downhill if it keeps demonetizing so many legitimate contributors like this. I think there's going to have to be a new video site started for political and news content. I'd say minds.com is kind of in this area.

I've started a channel on Minds, by the way: https://www.minds.com/SwordOfApollo

I'm working through Economics in One Lesson, so I think I'll try Sowell's book or Stigler's essays next. I want to get into politics later in life, so I want a good understanding of how the economy works and how I think it should work; I guess that may mean reading some books I might not enjoy the content of... but I'll save those for later. Thank you for the advice.

Yes, the free ARI Campus course is a slightly abridged version of the two courses, without the Q&A.

I'm not sure, but I think that Dr. Peikoff may give a textbook recommendation at one point in the original lecture courses. (If it's there, I don't recall what it is, so it might be The Story of Philosophy that OP mentioned.)

Before I respond in length, I want to ask a clarifying question.

You say (1): > It seems like every time I make a choice, I make it for a reason. And the reason is just based on my prior mental content.

and you say (2): > Of course I worked hard and made good decisions, but I couldn't have done otherwise---I merely acted on my beliefs.

So (1), to me, seems to be a statement that our choices are contextualized and confined by some degree, but not completely determined by our previous experiences and decisions.

And (2), to me, seems to be a statement that our choices are completely determined by our previous experiences and "decisions".

Decisions is italicized in (1) and scare-quoted in (2) because: if (1) is true, then one is responsible for one's decisions, and therefore one's character, and therefore responsible for the way one's character effects one's decision-making; if (2) is true, then a "decision" is no longer a useful concept, as you are rejecting free will and accepting determinism.

So, do you think (1), (2), or something else?

NOTE: Remember that acting on one's beliefs is a virtue--integrity--and everybody has not achieved (or is not blessed with) that virtue. >I merely acted on my beliefs

Nothing mere about that in my opinion.

EDIT: You've mentioned questions of morality in relation to luck, so I feel like I have to point you in the direction of Diana Hsieh's book: Responsibility & Luck. I'm currently working through it and have only read a few chapters, but I think I can recommend it because so far it is good and so is almost all of her content. In it, she defends the concept of responsibility (under a framework of free will; though she does not talk about her understanding of free will that much).