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No, the point is that any time you drive your car, even on your own property, you're polluting the atmosphere for the rest of the world. This is an even worse argument. Let's say some smoke particles go and aggress against a neighbour's property after you burn some wood in your fireplace. The victim has to prove this BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT
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If Wenzel's views were the same as Rothbard, then at some point during the debate shouldn't he have said that we should abolish all government IP laws as they exist, and move towards a more contractually based system? As far as I know, he said nothing of the kind. Then the debate would have shifted onto whether Rothbard's contractual system
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http://www.libertarianism.org/blog/six-reasons-libertarians-should-reject-non-aggression-principle "Many libertarians believe that the whole of their political philosophy can be summed up in a single, simple principle. This principle—the 'non-aggression principle' or 'non-aggression axiom' (hereafter NAP)—holds that
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I really don't understand why this debate went for two and half hours. I got so sick of listening and had to turn it off, they're repeating themselves endlessly.
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If you'd actually listen to the podcast, you'd have the answer to that question. Yep I understand now. Rothbard's version of copyright isn't the same as the government's legislated copyright, it's contractually based.
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Yes thanks for that, that was very useful. I should probably read Man Economy & State sometime soon.
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How is Kinsella saying that Rothbard didn't defend copyright? David Gordon says the same thing here : "These writers modify and extend the work of Murray Rothbard, who allowed copyrights but not patents." Admitedly I haven't read much into the IP debate but a quick google search reveals many websites saying a similar thing as Gordon
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yet more evidence that libertarians cannot be trusted; all too human. Ron paul confirmed that libertarians can't be trusted when he went after his supporters using intellectual property law; but I knew this even before he did this shameless act.
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Is this an accurate characterisation of Joseph Schumpeter? "in his book, "The Theory of Economic Development", wrote that depressions are a normal part of the way business cycles function, and a depression, even an extended one, is no reason to doubt capitalism." http:// sukritsabhlok.weebly.com/2/ post/2013/04/ a-stylized-history
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"It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and the punishment arena. This curious incendiary combination of free market efficiency