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Because governments - or, at least, all the necessary ingredients for governments - exist in every culture. This suggests that the condition of acquiescence of a subject population which is a prerequisite for the existence of government is dispositional , not cultural or ideological. That's an obvious truth that will piss a lot of libertarians off
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Good post, which I can't say for the other commentor who is obviously offended that someone didn't take his D&D political system seriously.
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Law and economics is definitely better than natural rights; though due to the neoclassical framework it is typically flawed in many of its meanderings. It also can't escape some sort of foundationalist view of just what the point of 'justice' is; which is easy to resolve if you don't have a centralized state ('justice' is whatever
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Here are some videos: Pennington - Democracy and the Deliberative Conceit Marco Bassani - It usually begins with John Locke. Reflections on Classical Liberalism and the State
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I don't read the New York Times, I don't even have a television. But I have read plenty of the bullshit on blogs and stupid books by the Tard Partiers to see that they don't know what they're about and, like any populist movement, are easily co-opted to serve whatever stupid demagogue will repeat meaningless but reassuring phrases. you're
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Morality is nothing more than aesthetic sentiment regarding the actions of a human being. It is ironic to express negative aesthetic sentiment ("inane and vain") regarding the expression of any aesthetic sentiment. It's more like signaling and social memes; that aside that is not the sort of claim moralists make, so it's irrelevant
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Everything in New York is owned by the Rockefellers.
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The only thing that anyone seems to come up with is that Winston Churchill quote. Which he probably didn't even say.
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If you actually talk to such people, you will find that you have a lot more in common than you think you do. No, they don't. The jawbone some brain-dead second-hand classical liberalism mixed in with a bunch of Conservative, NeoConservative and Southern Progressive (i.e., old Democrat) nonsense into a confused heap which they are pretty much unable
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That's a good magazine as far as Catholic screeds go, Tom Woods is in there from time to time.