http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTACCBJyhVA
Are there any points you would like to discuss?
Why is this thread posted?
Just posting some random youtube link is a bit confusing
"As in a kaleidoscope, the constellation of forces operating in the system as a whole is ever changing." - Ludwig Lachmann
"When A Man Dies A World Goes Out of Existence" - GLS Shackle
Oh sorry, I just wondered what everyone thought of his reasoning, and if they agreeed or disagreed and if they dissagreed if they could offer a rebuttal..
Sounded like flawed premise and a strawman followed up with a conspiracy theory about those ewul conservatives and libertarians to sidetrack the more virtuous and 'rational' people from 'true' liberty.
self ownership is both, an axiom and a paradox.
(english is not my native language, sorry for grammar.)
@MaikU
In what way is self-ownership a paradox?
The answer to the question what makes my body “mine” lies in the obvious fact that this is not merely an assertion but that, for everyone to see, this is indeed the case. Why do we say “this is my body”? For this a twofold requirement exists.
As far as bodies are concerned, it is also easy to prove this. We demonstrate it by showing that it is under my direct control, while every other person can objectify (express) itself in my body only indirectly, i.e., by means of their own bodies, and direct control must obviously have logical-temporal priority (precedence) as compared to any indirect control. The latter simply follows from the fact that any indirect control of a good by a person presupposes the direct control of this person regarding his own body; thus, in order for a scarce good to become justifiably appropriated, the appropriation of one’s directly controlled “own” body must already be presupposed as justified.
It thus follows: If the justice of an appropriation by means of direct control must be presupposed by any further-reaching indirect appropriation, and if only I have direct control of my body, then no one except me can ever justifiably own my body (or, put differently, then property in/of my body cannot be transferred onto another person), and every attempt of an indirect control of my body by another person must, unless I have explicitly agreed to it, be regarded as unjust(ified).
— Informal translation from Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Eigentum, Anarchie und Staat (Manuscriptum Verlag, 2005, pp. 98-100; originally published in 1985).