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[quote]Good point. I'm glad I didn't have to think with that one.[/quote] Aren't you beyond good an evil and above that kind of petty sarcasm ?
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[quote]Is David Friedman anti-establishment?[/quote] I don't know. Why is Friedman's position relevant at all, anyway ?
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[quote]The discovery of the inescapable interdependence of market phenomena overthrew this opinion. Bewildered, people had to face a new view of society. They learned with stupefaction that there is another aspect from which human action might be viewed than that of good and bad, of fair and unfair, of just and unjust/[/quote] 'Bewildered' 'stupefaction'
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[quote]I would certainly prefer not to.[/quote] That is not what I asked.
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Rothbard : Since, then, praxeology provides no ethics whatsoever Lilburne : This is an important truth Rothbard here states which some of his followers don't accept. Praxeology is just a fancy name for economics. And if economics says nothing about ethics, so what. Libertarianism is still a moral system. Mises was an economist, not a political philosopher
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[quote]As for whether I think it's moral or not, that is my own preference and ultimately inconsequential.[/quote] And if cops decide to beat you into a pulp, that's their preference and 'ultimately inconsequential'.
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"For example, a moral nihilist would say that killing someone, for whatever reason, is not inherently right or wrong." That's exactly the position of the moral subjectivists, OOPS, moral nihilists. You guys made your bed, now lie in it. Or do you lack the guts ? And by the way AJ, don't you think you should use better sources than
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[quote]It's up to the producer to decide, not me.[/quote] Thanks for conceding by evading my question. I daresay you want a patent system, because you are a mercantilist, and you want to confuse patents and copyright so that you can use the "Even Rothbard supported copyright!!" fallacy.
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Stranger, in your communist world where individual rights are not respected, would people be allowed to copy industrial designs or would that be a violation of 'copyright' ?
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1 : "Intellectual property is bad due to patents" 8 : "Intellectual property derives from the labor theory of value and is refuted by marginal value theory" That has nothing to do with my question. I think you fail.