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[quote user="Jon Irenicus"] Okay, here it is. The article isn't a response to Friedman - in fact it seems to be written without any particular regard to it, but it covers how the law will handle these problems, and is consistent with how natural law operates. -Jon [/quote] This link just sends me to a contemporary article on bugs producing
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[quote user="Jon Irenicus"] Well it'd help if anyone arguing against natural rights actually read the literature on the matter, for example articles by Rothbard on what constitutes trespass or not. Most natural law theorists are not naive and have studied how legal systems worked. If anything, it is utilitarians who are new to the game
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[quote user="JAlanKatz"] [quote user="Chriscal12"]One of his points is that simple statements of libertarian philosophy (like the non aggression axiom) offer no way of drawing lines on many questions, some of which may be practical questions about what property rights people ought to have (on things like air pollution, noise, and
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[quote user="JAlanKatz"] [quote user="Chriscal12"] It's probably true that this argument is only interesting and important to a small subset of libertarians, but those include some important libertarians. He's directing this line of argument against those who claim to have "derived" libertariansm out of something
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[quote user="macsnafu"] [quote user="Libertas est Veritas"][quote user="Chriscal12"]He follows those statements to absurd, but consistent, conclusions (like claiming that one has no right to exhale if any CO2 molecules trespass). If you are unwilling to accept those conclusions, you should be unwilling to accept the initial
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[quote user="Libertas est Veritas"][quote user="DW89"]What do you folks think of this from David Friedman's "The Machinery of Freedom"?[/quote] I only read about 1/3. Nothing especially noteworthy. The criticism is mainly academic and Friedman uses extreme examples. Are most people going to sue those who emit photons
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[quote user="Tbonesw"] I am currently enrolled in a class where the required reading is a book called Law's Order by David Friedman. Upon researching Dr. Friedman I discovered that he is an anarcho-capitalist but not in the Murray Rothbard sense. His theory is based upon the belief that anarcho-capitalism would be a more efficient system
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He teaches at Santa Clara University.
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The movie was only loosely based on Sinclair's novel. The novel, as I understand it (though I haven't read it), is mostly about the antagonistic relationship between the father and the son. The boy has many explcit sympathies for the oil workers and for socialist ideals, and he argues with his father about this throughout the book. In this way