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What is law?

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replied on Sat, Jan 1 2011 11:30 AM

For those who dont know.. all human action is arbitrary. Preference is arbitrary. Hence using arbitrariness as a criticism of a legal system is... dubious.

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For those who dont know.. all human action is arbitrary. Preference is arbitrary.

For those who don't know, Mises came up with a theory of human action, and it was not that action or prefernce are arbitrary.

But then praxeology is another thread.

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Your claim regarding the body of work known as public choice economics ("All public choice can tell us is that government doesn't behave like a market, and the way to make a government behave like a market is to make it a market and not a government.") has absolutely no place in reality.

 

"You seem to be contradicting yourself here.  You say I didn't provide any reasoning, but then say I deemed it bogus for a reason."

 

Your unsupportable conclusion regarding the usefulness of public choice is trash.  Yes, my post was contradictory but I can make a correction.  Your "reasoning" is poor and shows a misunderstanding of the difference between policy suggestions and an intellectual framework.

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