While the Associated Press blames the disaster in the Gulf on the lack of regulatory oversight, the White House's call for increasing the liability cap on oil companies belies the real culprit in this mess. Previous legislation capped oil company liability at 75 million. What reason could there possibly...
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Man, Meaning, and Freedom
by
William Green
on Thu, May 13 2010
Filed under: government, libertarianism, litigation, BP, law, oil spill, environment, justice
All of a sudden, the hen sprung into consciousness, looked around at its mindless sisters scratching and clucking, and proclaimed "I hereby declare my independence from this oppressive regime! No more laying eggs for some biped's breakfast while I have to settle for dry corn and a stinking coop...
In the following I outline, as succinctly as possible, my principles of libertarianism. Natural Morality I feel assault, plunder, and enslavement are wrong. Implicit in this feeling is a belief in property rights. I don't derive this feeling from some philosophical doctrine. It's just part of...
I have only been studying philosophy, formally and informally, for about a year. In this time I have come across a wealth of theories, and formulated a few of my own. This also happens to be the period in which I have become a libertarian. First I was a mixed economy-ist, and although I certainly had...
Another problem that I see with the attempt to prove "self-ownership" and "property rights" as an a priori axoim that is inherently established by the act of argumentation (as Hans Hoppe's argumentation ethics seems to essentially be) is that a contradiction between one's...