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What is the objectivist view of suicide? Is it objectively wrong? Immoral?
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Recently I saw - "Don't steal, the government hates competition" That tickled me
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Tucker's theory is flawed in what sense? In the sense that it leads to a lower standard of living than our current capitalistic definition of property? If you are going to call something flawed on consequentialist grounds then you are doing nothing more than saying "This is what I like, therefore this is what EVERYONE should like". You
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Brainpolice - Could you point me towards these serious criticisms please?
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Perhaps there is a misunderstanding. I'm not asking if there are any valid refutations of praxeology, or whether the propositions are truly apodictic, I'm simply canvassing the knowledge of the board to obtain information on who has attempted a refutation, and whether any of those refutations have made people work hard to formulate an argument
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Simple question: Who has, in your view, provided the best argument against praxeology and/or synthetic a priori propositions. Or to put it another way, who has made you think the hardest in order to maintain your belief in the validity of Mises' framework?
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For a moment lets imagine that you are correct and that we do indeed have 'natural rights' that exist objectively. Even if you grant this I would still disagree that such a doctrine is a superior dispute resolution system. How about the ideas of John Hasnas in particular who has written extensively on customary law, that is law that comes about
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"but if I steal your money what kind of ethics am I proposing, am I acting morally?" If you are asking me that question personally I would say you are acting immorally in so far as my subjective judgement of the situation is that you acting against my wishes. But if you are going to attempt to universalise or politicise that statement and
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I am guilty of psychologizing now, but it seems quite clear to me from that response that reading the rest of the essay will be a waste of time, because Jasay is guilty in your eyes of being 'not-Rothbard'. Your confirmation bias will kill you intellectually. If you are able to read it with a cool rational head then let me know if you have a
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Cats have ethics too, and are able to communicate both with other cats and with humans, it's just that they are so radically different from us that we have trouble comprehending it. Or rather the poverty of our human language results in the our word 'ethics' being' incapable of adequately describing a cat's 'ethics'. Most