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I used to like playing SimCity. Now I just wonder why hospitals and schools don't spring up in commercial zones when there is a demand for them. Is there a way to make a SimCity style game that works under AE? What would you do, especially if you make it ancap? You can't change tax rates, you can't zone land, you can't place anything
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IP also covers patents, don't forget. If I can't make copies after seeing the original work, then only Ford has the right to build automobiles, because everyone else copied Ford's work. We can apply the same standards to any product that doesn't occur naturally - the original inventor, or his heirs, are the only ones who can legally
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Three points I would like to bring up. First, in a world of crappy movies, people wouldn't go to the theatre nearly as often. So if theatres started "pirating" works, making it useless to make big budget movies, they would be shooting themselves in the foot. Don't you think most theatres would be willing to pay a little more to ensure
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Poor is kind of a relative term. Does ownership of capital make you not poor? I have never made more than $20,000 a year, well below the poverty line. About 20% of my income is eaten by taxes, though I get some of it back at the beginning of the next year. This year, I made less than $8,000 take home pay since I can only work part-time with the course
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I follow you... up to the point it applies to interaction between two people other than me, or aiding someone with aggression. Again, am I allowed to act on another's behalf without their consent? I used this example in another thread: [quote user="Aster Lac'Nala"]It is a beautiful summer day, and my neighbor is in his pool. I see
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That may be true, if enclosure is aggression, but you didn't answer my first question: on what grounds do you claim that my denial of trespass, even in this situation, is aggression, since all I am acting on is my property?
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I have been studying ethics a bit lately, but none of them seem to answer the question I want. When is it okay to force someone to follow your ethical code? The NAP seems to indicate that it is only when someone tries to do the same to you, and possibly someone else IF you and they have mutually agreed that you are protecting them. Would this be an
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Okay. Then on what grounds do you make this claim? The only thing you are acting on is your property. Let me raise another issue. If a person has four neighbors, and they are the only way off his property, and three of them put up fences, is the fourth obligated to let the person enter his property?
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This argument is inherently contradictory. The ethical basis for the taxation rests on the idea that private property is unfair. But if you are basing ethics on fairness, then you shouldn't have the private property rights in the first place. If you accept private property as ethical, then you accept as ethical that some situations will be unfair
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You misread me. I am saying that in a legal system based on the NAP, refusal to allow someone on your property, even if it entraps them, is not illegal, because is not initiation of aggression. It is, however, immoral. In this case, trespass is illegal, but it is not immoral. It is not always immoral to initiate aggression. However, since people seem