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  • Libertarian children

    What are different libertarian theories on status of children? Do they have property rights? For their own bodies? Are they treated as independent actors? Are they in custody of their parents/caretakers? What if they are abused? Does aggression towards children by their parents makes a defensive aggression towards parents by third parties permissible
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Andris Birkmanis on Mon, May 31 2010
  • Re: Confessions of a Central Planner

    For more than a year now I am (very slowly) designing a game to provoke anarchistic thoughts. The main ideas are: to make it possible for the player to abandon playing god to make it discoverable that intervening is harmful to make it fun not playing god To solve the first, the player should interact with the game through a "mere mortal" avatar
    Posted to General (Forum) by Andris Birkmanis on Fri, May 28 2010
  • Re: A theory of Hostile Action?

    Coercing another person is an action, and so is lying to another person. Even before we come to coercion and lying, which both require communication and mutual comprehension, there is a case of brute force aggression - just taking whatever is desired disregarding the victim completely (killing, if need be). I am pondering on whether this case still
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Andris Birkmanis on Tue, Apr 27 2010
  • Re: A theory of Hostile Action?

    The beginning of the paper looked promising... Thanks for the pointer, I will study it in details later.
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Andris Birkmanis on Thu, Apr 22 2010
  • Re: A theory of Hostile Action?

    I agree with you that all kind of human action is the subject of praxeology (by definition). However, according to Rothbard's definition of "economics" (as witnessed in http://mises.org/rothbard/schuller.pdf , page 946), economics is the part of praxeology concerned with single person cases and voluntary interpersonal exchange, thus explicitly
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Andris Birkmanis on Thu, Apr 22 2010
  • A theory of Hostile Action?

    I've read several books by Rothbard, but all of them seem to concentrate on non-aggressive action (~economics or, as Rothbard himself puts it, Crusoe economics + catallactics). The only kind of aggression investigated seems to come from the state, and looks isolated from the treatment of economics. I would really appreciate any pointers to (preferrably
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Andris Birkmanis on Wed, Apr 21 2010
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