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Ad hominem attacks aside, YouTuber hawanja’s video on free-market anarchists seems to make the point that people “naturally organize themselves into hierarchies” that require violence to be maintained, so anarchism runs counter to the human condition. It is left unstated why violence is needed or ethically justified to maintain these hierarchies if they were [...]
In Labadie Warren’s “The Tyranny of Property,” I learned that all non-personal property “should be considered unowned.” Immediately, Warren takes a logical leap by making a moral claim that people “should” act a certain way (i.e., not enforce non-personal property rights). Without justifying logically, Warren transitioned from stating what is the case to asserting [...]
In his inaugural speech (also on YouTube) as a United State senator, Rand Paul gave an inspirational talk about the virtue of not compromising on issues of morality.
He gave a telling of the political career of former Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, who helped orchestrate the extension of slavery [...]
The constitution was written by men over 200 years ago to reflect their own interests at the time. Along with a deeper understanding of the natural world, people today have different interests and different values (along with not being sexist racists).
So what should chaining ourselves to a 220-plus-year-old political compromise between Northern protectionist merchants [...]
Putting aside the question of whether god is a logically valid concept, there are a handful of reasons that no person should consider oneself a Christian even if the Biblical god plainly revealed himself to exist. The simple fact is that his moral failings would be so rampant that no person should grant him praise [...]
Over at SoulPancake, a crowdsourcing site for asking questions about religion and philosophy, someone posed the question of who judges morality in the absence of a divine authority.
In short, no one decides. It can only be discovered. Morality is an imperative and is empirically based in our nature as human beings.
The question [...]
In a previous post, I discussed why laborers do not receive wages commensurate of their contribution to the bottom line. I argued that the problem was not the fault of the market process. That is, it is not inherent in the market process. I was pointing out how government, through systematic expropriation of ownership [...]
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On the surface, a recent post on Walking Upstream called “Libertarianism: Coercion Seen Through a Fun House Mirror” may not look like something libertarians should embrace. Upon deeper reflection though, it is exactly the kind of thinking about our current corporatist economic system that libertarians need to embrace (and are doing more of) [...]