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Juan: GilesStratton: zefreak: I wouldn't consider myself an amoralist, I just believe value, hence morality is subjective. See, I can sympathize with this. Now, I don't want to drag this down into a debate about religion, but I think that God...
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wilderness: Anarcho-Mercantilist: I have written my second attempt as a series of comments at Polycentric Order. I have re-posted that on this forum. This attempt might have convinced wilderness. "maximization of profit" the way you used it...
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No one should prove any ethical principle from the argument by performative contradiction. Instead, one should analyze the benefits and costs of each ethical principle, and then choose one which attains the maximum well-being or prosperity of the general...
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AM, You are only partially right. It's true that an argument can be setup based on some implicit dichotomy, say, you either accept 'lockean property rights' or reject all property rights, and that enables the person setting up the argument...