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05-23-2017 , 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Shame Trolly !!!1!
Uh, haven't read H.Potter fiction, but trying to claim this is the dialog they spoke. You are doing that again.

Again, no. M.Rothbard didn't produce philosophical writing. Furthermore, just saying "Philosophy X says Y, a peep does Y, therefore that peep "is" an X" is a stupid, stupid, kind of statement. Sure, Descartes famously wrote "I think, therefore I am". This doesn't mean every time someone thinks they are "being" a Cartesian.

Furthermore, being a X, where X is a philosophy, doesn't make you part of some stupid team. If someone said they are an Existentialist, what does that mean? Well strictly it means they are a professional philosopher, they probably hold a professorship, and that what they publish in the academic journals are on subcategory of Existentialism of academic philosophy.

That doesn't fit ACers at all. ACers, universally, think their endless prating about 'morality' is actually doing philosophy. No ACer could give even a high school level explanation regarding any legitimate branch of philosophy. LOL @ACers being into philosophy at all.


No, no word salad for me, thanks


So what is the ethical justification in the book for buying and selling children? (I'm not going to read the book)
05-23-2017 , 10:05 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shame Trolly !!!1!
Uh, haven't read H.Potter fiction, but trying to claim this is the dialog they spoke. You are doing that again.

Again, no. M.Rothbard didn't produce philosophical writing. Furthermore, just saying "Philosophy X says Y, a peep does Y, therefore that peep "is" an X" is a stupid, stupid, kind of statement. Sure, Descartes famously wrote "I think, therefore I am". This doesn't mean every time someone thinks they are "being" a Cartesian.

Furthermore, being a X, where X is a philosophy, doesn't make you part of some stupid team. If someone said they are an Existentialist, what does that mean? Well strictly it means they are a professional philosopher, they probably hold a professorship, and that what they publish in the academic journals are on subcategory of Existentialism of academic philosophy.

That doesn't fit ACers at all. ACers, universally, think their endless prating about 'morality' is actually doing philosophy. No ACer could give even a high school level explanation regarding any legitimate branch of philosophy. LOL @ACers being into philosophy at all.


No, no word salad for me, thanks


So what is the ethical justification in the book for buying and selling children? (I'm not going to read the book)
05-23-2017 , 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
... So what is the ethical justification in the book for buying and selling children? (I'm not going to read the book)
Quote:
Originally Posted by M.Rothbard
... Now if a parent may own his child... then he may also transfer that ownership to someone else. He may give the child out for adoption, or he may sell the rights to the child in a voluntary contract. In short, we must face the fact that the purely free society will have a flourishing free market in children. Superficially, this sounds monstrous and inhuman. But closer thought will reveal the superior humanism of such a market...
Under ACism all children are born as slaves. They are the chattel of the birth mother, or the birth mother's owner if she herself is enslaved. The "ethical justification" is the alleged superior humanism of the 'free' market.
05-23-2017 , 10:44 PM
So the invisible hand, right? Adam Smith's invisible hand is Ethical Egoism.
05-23-2017 , 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
So the invisible hand, right?...


I'd imagine the child slave markets of ACland would be more "visible whip" than "invisible hand".
05-23-2017 , 11:17 PM
Is the invisible hand a foundational ethical/philosophical basis for libertarianism? (American, not European)
05-23-2017 , 11:55 PM
Fairly recently I've read Wealth of Nations, The Road to Serfdom, and Capitalism and Freedom and they are all way way way less extreme than the American libertarians. Friedman is fairly close to a market absolutist though. "Invisible hand" is mentioned briefly, I think twice, in the 5 books of The Wealth of Nations.

      
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