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Does he deny objective ethics as well? It's fairly easy to show that any moral precept entails or has the form of a property right.
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[quote user="Pskapompos"]Ive made my argument, your faith blinds you to it. We are our brothers keepers. We are our brothers keepers. We are our brothers keepers. To violate that is a crime against society. [/quote] We are our brother's keeper... because you say so; or rather because it feels bad when people violate this imaginary compact
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[quote user="Dondoolee"]Since women had the right to vote in our wonderful democracy has the role of govt alterd significantly?[/quote] It has been empirically verified that the female vote has been an essential factor in the growth of government, esp. with female labor unions and such. I recall reading an article somewhere on this.
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"Who will tell us what food is safe to eat?" "Who will decide what side of the road people drive on?" "Who will make sure businesses don't make too much money?" "Who will protect our freedoms?!"
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[quote user="Pskapompos"]You dont believe in personal responsibility. You dont want to be responsbily for anyone BUT yourself.[/quote] A socialist lecturing libertarians on personal responsibility... Such balls!
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Rothbard had a great refutation of this argument in chapter 6 of Power and Market.
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[quote user="Sphairon"] [/quote] I can't help but notice the singular blip over Pyongyang. Kim Jong Il must need a night-light.
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[quote user="Jason"]So you guys really do look at this site as being kinda an elite thing that no normal hardworking person would read from or look at. If you really do view Mises.org in that fashion, this site and ideas might as well be dead.[/quote] Pfffffft.
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Define 'human rights'.
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[quote user="MatthewF"] The problem is that preferences in action are based on value, and value is subjective. [/quote] The problem here is that this is exactly what ecoli had said. *rolls eyes* Technically, preference is an ordering on the subjective valuations of predicted outcomes resulting from possible actions. If this ordering is cyclic