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Science should be welcomed in any subject of discussion, and is always relevant...
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... you just completely ignored what I said about scapegoating... and you will continue to scape goat maker gonna make scape goats...
Naw, I mentioned your bizarre use of the term "scape goat". If I'm scapegoating someone I must have done something wrong and am trying to shift the blame. What do you imagine, in your fevered little mind, that I've personally done IRL that is blame worthy? How could asking someone questions over the interwebs possibly shift blame to them?
Are you really making up your own little language now? WTF BBQ ??
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... The problem is, I just haven't read ... well, any Rothbard. I haven't studied any of his stuff...
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I am an Anarchist and Voluntaryist. I believe in natural rights and the non aggression principle... Some individuals I greatly admire and respect, in the political and philosophical sense, are... Murray Rothbard...
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...there's a pretty good possibility you are misrepresenting something he said...
Maybe you shouldn't list him as an influence if you haven't actually read anything by him. And there goes your paranoia again... tin foil hat much? Rothbard is so far out there, believe me, nobody needs to misrepresent his crapola...
Anyways, the quote was from the literal "bible" on 'anarchsim', Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty, chapter 14 (avialable full text on mises.org). And it's not just Rothbard, or any appeal to authority, not at all... I've never even heard of a libertarian type who didn't champion child labor. Like I said, if any of them were against child labor... they would be admitting that governmental interference is needed to save the children, and their rights, from 'agression' by the 'free market'.
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Strongly disagree on both points.
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The non-aggression principle (NAP)... the anti-coercion principle, or the non-initiation of force—is a moral stance which asserts that aggression is inherently illegitimate...
Some modern libertarian thinkers ground the non-aggression principle by an appeal to the necessary praxeological presuppositions of any ethical discourse... Among these are Stephan Kinsella and Murray Rothbard... Some derive the non-aggression principle by appealing to natural rights that are deemed a natural part of man. Such approaches often reference self-ownership... Thinkers in the natural law tradition include John Locke, Lysander Spooner, and Murray Rothbard...
Natural law theorist Murray Rothbard traces the non-aggression principle to natural law theorist St. Thomas Aquinas and the early Thomist scholastics of the Salamanca school...
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Anarcho-capitalism... is a libertarian political philosophy that advocates anarchy in the sense of the elimination of the state in favor of individual sovereignty in a free market...
the first person to coin the term and widely regarded as its founder, and its most well-known version, was formulated by Austrian School economist and libertarian Murray Rothbard in the mid-20th century... In Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism, there would first be the implementation of a mutually agreed-upon libertarian "legal code which would be generally accepted, and which the courts would pledge themselves to follow." This legal code would recognize sovereignty of the individual and the principle of non-aggression...
According to the Wikipedia editors, Rothbard both personally penned the modern version of the NAP itself, and literally created 'anarchism' itself (as well as coining the oxymoron ACism).