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He tweeted this: [quote]Ha! I have been denounced by a libertarian group for suggesting even the mildest of gun controls on assault rifles. http://t.co/GL213X3B [/quote] "Mildest of gun controls"... yeah, I wouldn't vote for this guy!
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I'm a bit confused on why the bubble that put us in this current recession had burst so rapidly. In my understanding of the ABC, the bubble bursts when interest rates go up, but interest rates went up slowly and before the bubble imploded. It looks like it should have been a gradual burst from 2004 to 2006.
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[quote user="RothbardsDisciple"]To be more general, the person is inalienable, as an extension of the will.[/quote] So your will controls your body, so your body is an extension of your will, and therefore it's just as inalienable as will? Isn't all property that is acquired through labor or voluntary trade the extension of the will
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[quote user="RothbardsDisciple"]Josh- The issue here is that you are not seeing the fetus as a parasitic invader, hence initiating a grave degree of force against the mother's body by coercively leeching off the host. I note body because that is where the difference between the alienability of property and the inalienability of person
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[quote user="JackCuyler"] Josh, You're missing Rithbard's point that rights (the obligations of others to refrain from aggression) are aquired at birth. If you assign rights to those Rothbard does not, it's likely you will disagree.[/quote] This is his view, but makes no argument for it because, as he admits, there is absolutely
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Rothbard's position on child neglect was backed up with substantial logic. He outlined two principles: (1) Person A being helpless does not entail that Person B is responsible for Person A, and (2) Person B being the creator of Person A does not entail that Person B has a responsibility to provide for Person A. This is following strict voluntarist