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Argumentation is not the only morally correct way to deal with disputes.
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Here we go again. I have been searching on the Mises forum, but I've been unable to find a thread concerning my question to Hoppe's argument. I have read chapter 7 of Hoppe's Eigentum, Anarchie und Staat along with The Economics and Ethics of Private Property , so I feel well-read. There...
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This argument is very, very often distorted, and misunderstood. I hope this introduction will help clear things up: http://argumentationethics.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/argumentation-ethics/ From it: Not bad! We have now shown that argumentation must presuppose each person owns its own body. The denial...
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[quote user="Knight_of_BAAWA"] [quote user="Anarcho-Mercantilist"]The phrase "initiation of force" cannot be logically defined without circularity[/quote]Nonsense. Do try to grasp that words have definitions. [/quote] How do you conclude that "nuclear weapon production...
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[quote user="Juan"][quote user="Brainpolice"]But to address the original question, I'm not exactly a utilitarian (in the sense of making use of a pleasure/pain principle or in the sense of trying to make morality metric).[/quote] By calling you a utilitarian, I meant that you...
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[quote user="Knight_of_BAAWA"] [quote user="Brainpolice"]I don't advocate the Kantian Golden Rule and the universalizability test. In fact, I've blogged repeatedly on why I think that universality by itself is insufficient, and sometimes too rigid.[/quote]Question: if someone...
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[quote user="wombatron"] [quote user="nskinsella"]Wombatron, what do you mean, it's a precondition of human flourishing? Isn't this vague way of writing a way of hiding the fact that you are trying to smuggle a norm in, to avoid admitting there is an is-ought gap problem?...
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[quote user="Jon Irenicus"] I tend to see rights as the precondition for a flourishing society. The straightforward arguments for self-ownership are Rothbard's, and those Kinsella develops in How we come to own ourselves , not so much argumentation ethics. I think epistemological arguments...
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[quote user="Jon Irenicus"] [quote]I think Hoppe's argument that Kinsella quotes in that article is far more convincing than his argumentation ethics.[/quote] I agree. I think it renders argumentation ethics redundant. [/quote] I'm a bit lost here. Are you guys saying that Hoppe's...
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[quote user="nibbler491"] I was recently talking with someone about Libertarianism and they referred to property rights as simply legal fictions, not something that objectively exists in reality, and I found that I really could not find an objective way of proving property rights. The most...