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  • Re: Is the state a market outcome?

    Conclusion: A voluntary free market cannot satisfy the demands of human beings who demand disputes be resolved using aggressive force, without consent. However, a voluntary free market can satisfy the demands of human beings who demand disputes be resolved using non-aggressive force. Free Markets are not devoid of non-aggressive force which makes them
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Lyle on Fri, Mar 18 2011
  • Morality and the Law

    In "For A New Liberty," Murray N. Rothbard founds the Libertarian defense of abortion upon self-ownership. Rothbard demonstrates how self-ownership leads to homesteading and private property rights, essentials to laissez faire. Therefore, self-ownership includes not only one's body, but one's labor and the land with which it is mixed
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Lyle on Fri, Mar 18 2011
  • Re: Is the state a market outcome?

    The market is like a "society" or "nation," composed of individual members and has no real meaning unless we give it one (ie. property rights). If the market is dependent on property rights then only actors who act non-aggressively and voluntarily compose the market. We can only say that aggressive human action has a negative influence
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Lyle on Fri, Mar 11 2011
  • Re: What's wrong with this argument?

    As I understand it, profit is the result of consumers subjectively valuing products at a price greater than the costs of production. Profits are then used to increase production which drives prices down. Doesn't the argument assume that wages necessarily must be lowered or that prices will not drop?
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Lyle on Fri, Feb 25 2011
  • Re: Entertainment after the blinders are off

    People of "retarded mentality," such as yourself and the rest of us whose blinders have been removed, are reduced to watching "horse operas." Learn More about What Entertainment is Available to You: http://mises.org/daily/4930/I-Watch-Westerns
    Posted to Newbies (Forum) by Lyle on Fri, Feb 25 2011
  • Re: No Religion is Libertarian

    There are non-Christians who argue that Islam/Daoism/Christianity, blah blah blah, are libertarian; it was them I was talking about. Are you talking about Constant, Tocqueville, and Acton from Ralph Raico's "The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton"? http://mises.org/books/place_of_religion_raico
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Lyle on Thu, Feb 24 2011
  • Re: Land is Intellectual Property

    I invent a car and sell it to someone. The idea of a car is intellectual property. The car itself is property. The question is whether one is should be allowed a monopoly on the idea or on the concrete manifestation of that idea. Land is not intellectual property, it is property. As your definition demonstrates, land is not intellectual property; rather
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Lyle on Wed, Feb 23 2011
  • Re: No Religion is Libertarian

    I always thought Jesus, being from Galilee, was a libertarian. I guess I am interpreting the scriptures incorrectly as are others who get the same idea when reading about him: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/butler-b1.html
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Lyle on Sun, Feb 20 2011
  • Re: Hoppe, Holcombe, and Walter Block

    in order to reduce the cost of protection and raise property values, insurers would formulate and continually refine various restrictive (exclusionary) rules and procedures relating to immigration and immigrants and thus give quantitative precision—in the form of prices and price differences—to the value of discrimination (and the cost of
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Lyle on Wed, Feb 16 2011
  • Re: Hoppe, Holcombe, and Walter Block

    Can a contract/constitution change non-property to public property by simply limiting inheritance in its terms of agreement? -- Lyle Angurse: I understand this may not make sense to you because you don't believe in the idea of non-property. What I am saying, as in the example of an HOA, does private property become public (HOA) property by simply
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Lyle on Tue, Feb 15 2011
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