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[quote user="twistedbydsign99"] [quote user="Anarcho-Mercantilist"]who claim that "intrinsic properties exist independently of our thinking," and who claim that "essences exist independently of our senses,"[/quote] If nothing objective exists then you should stop...
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[quote user="wilderness"] Natural rights are. Life is. Liberty is. Property is. Without these rights that are, then no defining will happen. No exploring can even occur without these rights. How do you explore human nature or otherwise without living (life), choosing [(liberty) i.e. without...
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[quote user="Zavoi"] [quote user="AJ"]Else please define "objective" more precisely to distinguish the two.[/quote] "Objective" means "true or false independent of the preferences of people." It contrasts with "subjective," which refers to statements...
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[quote user="Juan"][quote user="Lilburne"]I might, however, ask him whether he feels stealing, assault, and enslavement are wrong. If he answers affirmitavely, I would then prove him incoherent by deriving "ought" from "ought" and showing him that he is actually...
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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"] [quote user="Anarcho-Mercantilist"] "'Natural law' theories derive their 'moral codes of conduct' from the mere laws of logic, without any reference to 'empirical' constructs such as 'human biology'."[/quote] thats...
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[quote user="Lilburne"] [quote user="Anarchist Cain"]Morality is define as a code of conduct proposed by a given group or individual. Explain how that is correct or incorrect.[/quote] The natural rights theories we are criticizing are not mere codes of conduct. They contain assertions...
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[quote user="Lilburne"] [quote user="Juan"]I'm simply stating the common sense position that there's right and wrong, contrary to what a bunch of relativists who fancy themselves great philosophers believe.[/quote] The common sense position regarding right and wrong is that...
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[quote user="hashem"]"“Aggression” is defined as the initiation of the use or threat of physical violence against the person or property of anyone else." [/quote] That definition is circular in the sense that it uses terms that refer to the same thing as the word as you...
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[quote user="I. Ryan"] [quote user="Anarchist Cain"] Only because you fail to define it. Amoralism is defined as lacking a distinction between right and wrong. [/quote] So, if you are an amoralist, then you could not comment on the rightness or the wrongness of the proposition that...
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[quote user="hashem"]In all fairness, let me clarify that you know nothing about Rothbardism. You are the one who falsely claimed that Rothbardians consider nuclear weapons to be in violation of property rights, an absurd claim at best, an absolutely unfounded one at worst, strictly in contradiction...