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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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