Neodoxy's Comments

ahem

Malachi — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:07:10 GMT

"Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War in his second term. He wanted to call off the moon race in favor of cooperation with the Soviets. He signed a treaty with the Soviets to ban nuclear testing, he refused to invade Cuba in '62, he set out to withdraw from Vietnam. But all that ended on November 22nd, 1963." -"X", Oliver Stone's JFK

Thank you

mangr3n — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:55:44 GMT

Thanks for the encouragement, I'm encouraged by the level of discussion going on here. You, Clayton, and Autolykos in particular have been very helpful to me in driving my own intellectual exploration. I've been looking for a home to engage in these discussions. Ideologically Mises, more than any other intellectual, has provided me that home already. I'm glad to have found a welcoming and argumentative community (in the best sense). It encourages me to find that there is a place for me discuss these ideas without feeling the need to go back and argue first principles with every new conversation.

Correction

RothbardsDisciple — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:25:10 GMT

"By the way, I wrote quite a long response to you that was lost here."

here= thread on why coercion is wrong.

My Apologies

RothbardsDisciple — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:22:45 GMT

Hello, I simply wanted to state formally that I am sorry for being so dogmatic in our conversation on morality. While I still think that Non-Aggressive morality is objective, universally true, and axiomatic, my approach was neither scholarly nor amiable; perhaps a reason is that I spend a lot of time discussing with Rothbardians, and have become accustomed to Libertarian morality as an implicit truth in every scenario. When I was challenged, therefore, I rather felt backed into a corner. (Not any falt of your own, of course, but my own shortcomings). And while my approach may perhaps be best in many scenarios, it was not the proper fashion to have discourse with a fellow intellectual such as yourself. I have begun reading my copy of Ethics of Liberty (as you may know, signed by Rothbard!), and I have realized that there are many ancillary reasons for supporting my own axioms. While an axiom is self-evident, that is no reason why it cannot be proven; for axioms are often built upon prior truths. I feel that my approach gave the wrong impression, and was deeply regrettable. Again, my sincere apologies.

By the way, I wrote quite a long response to you that was lost here. You may have seen the blank box at the time. Anyway, I was going to say that I do not necessarily feel I have been "kicked in the teeth intellectually," but I do feel that you have pointed out an obvious need for me to study a bit more. Thanks for pointing that out. I also feel that, on these forums, I am going to direct my energies to economics. I do not feel comfortable discussing morality with such vast opposition to my beliefs here. Fortunately, though, I have found such articles as "Rothbardian Ethics" by Hoppe, which help further my central tenets; there were many reasons I was neglecting in our discussion. I also believe that "Ethics of Liberty" will finally give me an entirely firm ground on which to base my statements (which, again, I will try to avoid here). Thanks once more for this progression in my intellectual development; if nothing else, you have helped me research my position, as well as the arguments against it. I hope we can talk about economics sometime too!

~RothbardsDisciple

Rothbard & monopoly

LogisticEarth — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:43:08 GMT

Hey, I saw your coment in the "is coercion wrong" thread, during your discussions with RothbardsDisciple, about Rothbard's chapter on monopoly in MES:

"[Rothbard's] views in monopoly price (constituting the worst and most blatantly BS chapter of MES)"

That's a pretty strong comment. I'm only on the first few chapters of MES, but what are your critcisms? Just wanted an opinion, I haven't even read it yet. I often find it useful to know the criticisms of something before I read it, so I can keep that in mind as I go through.

AE

MrSchnapps — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:45:45 GMT

I can't find the post where you asked me what my conclusions were on Austrian Economics. Answer: I haven't completely decided yet. It's a very difficult area. I like the emphasis on human action, but its Kantian foundations are pretty weak, which is why I offered a couple of possible alternatives.