How do libertarians balance property rights against privacy rights?
I have no interest in this discussion but I'd like to interject:
MissileDog, your snarky posting style where you randomly add crap like "/QED" does not come across well at all and weakens any intelligent points you have to share. I don't know if you just can't help being a it or what, but it's rather annoying to read and doesn't win you any points with anyone. Just sayin'.
MissileDog, your snarky posting style where you randomly add crap like "/QED" does not come across well at all and weakens any intelligent points you have to share. I don't know if you just can't help being a it or what, but it's rather annoying to read and doesn't win you any points with anyone. Just sayin'.
They are completely different questions that need to be answered in completely different ways. I feel this is a point that the other poasters were completely missing. And that is why I was trying to answer the logically impossible question first, then was using "/QED" to separate the discussion, and then was moving on to discussing how often things would happen.
I'm asking your advice, how do we separate the "logically impossible" part of the discussion from the "how often it might happen" part?
Ok moving on to tomdemaine's poasts...
Originally Posted by me
[...]And please, can we just skip the kumbaya, in LiberLand people would be different. kumbaya! We know that perv bosses do this now, even at the risk of OMG GUBBERNIT OMG MEN WITH GUNS OMG might violently interfere with the pervs hobby or freedom. And surely there are other perv bosses who would be happy to do so if it was legal and righteous, like it would be in LiberLand. Let's go with that reality instead of another song of Kumbaya!
Originally Posted by tomdemaine
1. Imagine a scenario where freaks, degenerates and psychopaths have all the money and property in the world.
2. ????
3. Capitalism doesn't work.
2. ????
3. Capitalism doesn't work.
Originally Posted by me
There FYP. But I get your point, we prols need masters. So some small group must have all the money and property in the world, because we prols need masters. And we got lucky, because we were born into Captitalism, so one thing we got is masters, for sure. Which we prols need.
But I am being unfair to paint our masters as freaks, degenerates and psychopaths... oh, no they are the best and the brightest, and got all the money and property because they were smarter and worked hard. Or... they just inherited it (over 90% of wealth).
But Kumbaya! None of this would happen in LiberLand, Kumbaya! LOL OMG.
But I am being unfair to paint our masters as freaks, degenerates and psychopaths... oh, no they are the best and the brightest, and got all the money and property because they were smarter and worked hard. Or... they just inherited it (over 90% of wealth).
But Kumbaya! None of this would happen in LiberLand, Kumbaya! LOL OMG.
Spoiler:
real world Capitalism, you know like the US, Japan, EU, etc
But I think your problem is EITHER/OR reasoning, which seems to be required for you dudes. Let me help...
Today under real world Capitalism, there are perv bosses and landlords who put secret cameras in their offices or apartments. This is a fact of life. They are willing to roll the dice, and take their chances that the real world Capitalist's government won't catch them and punish them. In LiberLand they will act the same.
But in mature LiberLand, such pervish actions will be legal, righteous, and stigma free. They at most might be considered rude, like farting in church. There is a non-zero amount of perv bosses and landlords who today, under real world Capitalism, would like to act out their desires, but they don't because they are scared of the legal punishments or the stigma of being caught. These pervs would be enabled under Libertarian Capitalism.
So /QED, oops sorry. So logically we can conclude that this pervish activity would be more widespread under Libertarian Capitalism than real world Capitalism. Who knows if it would be 150%, 300%, or 1000% more likely?
But I think where you, tomdemaine, are being way to pessimistic about human nature is when you assume that every single boss under Capitalism is a perv. Or as you blogged...
freaks, degenerates and psychopaths have all the money and property in the worldI simply don't agree with you here. Sure power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, I here what you are saying. But most people aren't pervs, I think that's the point you are missing. Obviously Libertarian Capitalism would enable more pervs than real world Capitalism, duh! But I really believe that only a tiny amount of the population are predisposed to being pervs regardless of their wealth and power.
I can't imagine why you would believe otherwise. Most people are good. But YMMV.
pvn
Hi missiledog,
Ok, in the future I will make fewer one-line drive-by LOLidiotic poasts, and instead make more endlessly yammering wall-of-text LOLidiotic poasts.
PS: I realize you claim to be an anarchist. That fact was actually crucial in selecting Kim Jong-Il to use in FYPs of your poasts. DUCY?
Ok, in the future I will make fewer one-line drive-by LOLidiotic poasts, and instead make more endlessly yammering wall-of-text LOLidiotic poasts.
PS: I realize you claim to be an anarchist. That fact was actually crucial in selecting Kim Jong-Il to use in FYPs of your poasts. DUCY?
Hi missiledog,
Ok, in the future I will make fewer one-line drive-by LOLidiotic poasts, and instead make more endlessly yammering wall-of-text LOLidiotic poasts.
PS: I realize you claim to be an anarchist. That fact was actually crucial in selecting Kim Jong-Il to use in FYPs of your poasts. DUCY?
Ok, in the future I will make fewer one-line drive-by LOLidiotic poasts, and instead make more endlessly yammering wall-of-text LOLidiotic poasts.
PS: I realize you claim to be an anarchist. That fact was actually crucial in selecting Kim Jong-Il to use in FYPs of your poasts. DUCY?
Hi missiledog,
Ok, in the future I will make fewer one-line drive-by LOLidiotic poasts, and instead make more endlessly yammering wall-of-text LOLidiotic poasts.
PS: I realize you claim to be an anarchist. That fact was actually crucial in selecting Kim Jong-Il to use in FYPs of your poasts. DUCY?
Ok, in the future I will make fewer one-line drive-by LOLidiotic poasts, and instead make more endlessly yammering wall-of-text LOLidiotic poasts.
PS: I realize you claim to be an anarchist. That fact was actually crucial in selecting Kim Jong-Il to use in FYPs of your poasts. DUCY?
I know this wasn't what you were looking for, but there is an actual Korean anarchist history. From Infoshop Openwiki [...]
Autonomous Shinmin Region (1929-1931)Kinda like in Spain a few years later, all the perpetually warring hierarchical oppressors, Capitalists, Communists, Imperialists, Monarchists, Religionists, you name it, can always agree on one thing --- attacking anarchists is job #1, fighting each other comes second.
The apex of Korean anarchism came in late 1929 outside the actual borders of the country, in Manchuria. Over two million Korean immigrants lived within Manchuria at the time when the Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF) declared the Shinmin province autonomous and under the administration of the Korean People’s Association. The decentralized, federative structure the association adopted consisted of village councils, district councils and area councils, all of which operated in a cooperative manner to deal with agriculture, education, finance and other vital issues. KACF sections in China, Korea, Japan and elsewhere devoted all their energies towards the success of the Shinmin Rebellion, most of them actually relocating there. Dealing simultaneously with Stalinist Russia’s attempts to overthrow the Shinmin autonomous region and Japan’s imperialist attempts to claim the region for itself, the Korean anarchists had been crushed by 1931. [...]
From late 1930 onwards the Japanese were attacking in waves from the South and the stalinists, supported by the USSR, from the North. In early 1931 the stalinists sent assassination and kidnapping teams into the anarchist zone to murder leading activists. They believed that if they wiped out the KAFM the KAPM would wither and die. By the summer of 1931 many leading anarchists were dead and the war on two fronts was devastating the region. It was decided to go underground. Anarchist Shimin was no more.[...]
pvn
Not at all. The anarchist tent is big IMO. I have no problem accepting your claim at face value.
Well no. But let's go with what you said... breaches of privacy are largely breaches of the rights of property. Which means you think they are secondarily caused without breaching the rights of property. So once again we can conclude /QED, that the rights of property do not directly address privacy concerns.
We have reached 100% agree on this correct? Property rights, at most, would lesson the chance that breaches of privacy might happen, but there is nothing that logically follows from property rights that ensures any general considerations for privacy.
Or we haven't. Like I said, before we go on to handicap how wide spread breaches of privacy would happen in LiberLand, I really think we need to get an agreement about this.
"Trumanizing" someone's life (ala the film) would clearly be fraud. It also would be very unlikely (to the point of practical impossibility) for such a conspiracy to go on for very long at all.
The only way "Trumanizing" someone's life would not be a case of fraud is if all parties involved were consentual and entered into a contractual relationship.
Well I don't Savvy. Do you want me to go find the quote where you said it would be OK but uncommon. It is OK to admit you were wrong about "Trumanizing". If you want to say this is fraud I can just come up with another just as obvious example that you won't consider fraud. EZ game.
LOL, no. Some Libertarians are pro-slavery, some are not.
All libertarians are pro-indentured servitude.
Logically Absolute Property + Absolute Contract --> Slavery.
Why do you think people always bring slavery up while talking to you dudes?
No I feel my reasoning is 100% correct here. Would you care to explain my mistake?
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It is loaded with bare assertions and unsubstantiated charges.
Here, I'll give an example that should also settle the "fraud" issues raised above. Two birds with one stone.
A perv executive who makes 1000x what a line worker makes opens up a hobby business. He hires ten hotties for line worker wages, two supervisors for 5x line worker wages, and spends 10x a line workers wages to rent the offices and create busy work for the hotties. This is only 3% of the pervs wages, an easily sustainable hobby budget.
We have already established ITT that in LiberLand that any privacy concerns would have to be explicitly spelled out. The perv leaves out an effective privacy clause (alternately writes something in about a nominal $X penalty payment for any employee or owner breaching privacy, etc). And then he has a whole lotta secret cameras installed in the hobby company offices.
So no fraud, a nominal cost to the perv, and perfectly legal and righteous to Libertarians.
A perv executive who makes 1000x what a line worker makes opens up a hobby business. He hires ten hotties for line worker wages, two supervisors for 5x line worker wages, and spends 10x a line workers wages to rent the offices and create busy work for the hotties. This is only 3% of the pervs wages, an easily sustainable hobby budget.
We have already established ITT that in LiberLand that any privacy concerns would have to be explicitly spelled out. The perv leaves out an effective privacy clause (alternately writes something in about a nominal $X penalty payment for any employee or owner breaching privacy, etc). And then he has a whole lotta secret cameras installed in the hobby company offices.
So no fraud, a nominal cost to the perv, and perfectly legal and righteous to Libertarians.
And please, can we just skip the kumbaya, in LiberLand people would be different. kumbaya! We know that perv bosses do this now, even at the risk of OMG GUBBERNIT OMG MEN WITH GUNS OMG might violently interfere with the pervs hobby or freedom. And surely there are other perv bosses who would be happy to do so if it was legal and righteous, like it would be in LiberLand. Let's go with that reality instead of another song of Kumbaya!
And once again, you seem to be looking for absolutist guarantees against this kind of thing. They don't exist. Even any pet political theory you hold doesn't guarantee against this sort of thing.
* There is no coherent conceptualization of privacy without a coherent conceptualization of property.
Well logically, we can say this...
* If we can come up with an even one example of a breach of privacy that is not related to property rights, regardless of how likely or unlikely that breach might happen, then the first statement is false. Likewise, if we can come up any logical concept of privacy without relating to property rights, then the second statement is false. This is not an example of wanting a perfect rule, or finding a nitpick in an otherwise wonderful philosophy. This is what I was getting at when I said arguing that X logically follows from Y, is a fundamentally different question than X wouldn't often happen from Y.
Here is a math example: Premise: 3,5,7 are prime numbers, so all odd numbers are prime numbers. Disproof: 3*3=9, 9 is odd, so not all odd numbers are prime. I can come up with an unlimited number of these kind of examples. But unless you are able to follow the underlying logic, I feel you will continue to ridicule irrelevant details of the example, whine about me assuming all bosses are pervs or something (like a poster above), or changing the subject by saying... kumbaya! that just wouldn't happen in LiberLand, kumbaya!
Instead of coming up with more examples for you to miss the logical point, can we agree on the underlying logic first?
* There would have to be some positive logical argument that moves from some set of Libertarian principles (NAP, absolute property rights, violent absolute contact enforcement, and/or whatever it is you happen to believe which you identify as non-NAP, non-homesteading, and non-rule-based).
Here is a math example: Premise: There are an infinite number of prime numbers: Proof: Assume there are a finite number of primes, multiply them together and add one. The resulting number cannot be divided by any of the assumed primes. So proved by contradiction, there are an infinite number of primes.
So would you like to make a logical argument that moves from whatever your personal Libertarian principles to a concept of privacy? I can't do that for you because I have no idea what your personal Libertarian principles are.
* Can we agree that the mainstream Libertarian NAP cannot move to any meaningful concept of privacy? Several posters have asked Libertarians to explicitly use the wording of the NAP to do so. I believe I have given examples that show it cannot be done (see reasoning above). And so far Libertarians (&etc) have studiously ignored the question. All we have heard is... soundofcrickets.wav.
Originally Posted by Montius
A man should be left free to sell himself into servitude. There is no more competent judge than he of his reason for doing so.[...]No sorry. A contract that violates the freedoms of a third party against their will is not a valid contractual relationship.[...]Because some people are stupid.[...]
A perv executive who makes 1000x what a line worker makes opens up a hobby business. He hires ten hotties for line worker wages, two supervisors for 5x line worker wages, and spends 10x a line workers wages to rent the offices and create busy work for the hotties. This is only 3% of the pervs wages, an easily sustainable hobby budget.I feel my slightly generalized reasoning is 100% correct here. Would you care to explain my mistake?
We have already established ITT that in LiberLand that any privacy concerns would have to be explicitly spelled out. The perv writes a valid Libertarian employment contract that subtly leaves out an effective privacy clause. And then he secretly violates what would be considered the hotties privacy under real World Capitalism.
So no fraud, a nominal cost to the perv, and perfectly legal and righteous to Libertarians.
Originally Posted by Montius
It is loaded with bare assertions and unsubstantiated charges.[...]
And once again, you seem to be looking for absolutist guarantees against this kind of thing. They don't exist. Even any pet political theory you hold doesn't guarantee against this sort of thing.
Today under real world Capitalism, there are perv bosses and landlords who put secret cameras in their offices or apartments. This is a fact of life. They are willing to roll the dice, and take their chances that the real world Capitalist's government won't catch them and punish them. In LiberLand they will act the same.Does that sound like I am looking for any absolutist guarantees here? WTF? Sure the first group of pervs will perv under any system because they are willing to roll the dice and take their chances. The second non-zero group are enabled under Libertarian Capitalism, as their pervish activity would not be sanctioned or stigmatized.
But in a mature LiberLand, such pervish actions will be legal, righteous, and stigma free. They at most might be considered rude, like farting in church. There is a non-zero amount of perv bosses and landlords who today, under real world Capitalism, would like to act out their desires, but they don't because they are scared of the legal punishments or the stigma of being caught. These pervs would be enabled under Libertarian Capitalism.
So logically we can conclude that this pervish activity would be more widespread under Libertarian Capitalism than real world Capitalism. Who knows if it would be 150%, 300%, or 1000% more likely.
* breaches of privacy are always about breaches of property
* There is no coherent conceptualization of privacy without a coherent conceptualization of property.
Well logically, we can say this...
* If we can come up with an even one example of a breach of privacy that is not related to property rights, regardless of how likely or unlikely that breach might happen, then the first statement is false. Likewise, if we can come up any logical concept of privacy without relating to property rights, then the second statement is false. This is not an example of wanting a perfect rule, or finding a nitpick in an otherwise wonderful philosophy. This is what I was getting at when I said arguing that X logically follows from Y, is a fundamentally different question than X wouldn't often happen from Y.
Here is a math example: Premise: 3,5,7 are prime numbers, so all odd numbers are prime numbers. Disproof: 3*3=9, 9 is odd, so not all odd numbers are prime. I can come up with an unlimited number of these kind of examples. But unless you are able to follow the underlying logic, I feel you will continue to ridicule irrelevant details of the example, whine about me assuming all bosses are pervs or something (like a poster above), or changing the subject by saying... kumbaya! that just wouldn't happen in LiberLand, kumbaya!
Instead of coming up with more examples for you to miss the logical point, can we agree on the underlying logic first?
* There would have to be some positive logical argument that moves from some set of Libertarian principles (NAP, absolute property rights, violent absolute contact enforcement, and/or whatever it is you happen to believe which you identify as non-NAP, non-homesteading, and non-rule-based).
Here is a math example: Premise: There are an infinite number of prime numbers: Proof: Assume there are a finite number of primes, multiply them together and add one. The resulting number cannot be divided by any of the assumed primes. So proved by contradiction, there are an infinite number of primes.
So would you like to make a logical argument that moves from whatever your personal Libertarian principles to a concept of privacy? I can't do that for you because I have no idea what your personal Libertarian principles are.
* Can we agree that the mainstream Libertarian NAP cannot move to any meaningful concept of privacy? Several posters have asked Libertarians to explicitly use the wording of the NAP to do so. I believe I have given examples that show it cannot be done (see reasoning above). And so far Libertarians (&etc) have studiously ignored the question. All we have heard is... soundofcrickets.wav.
* There is no coherent conceptualization of privacy without a coherent conceptualization of property.
Well logically, we can say this...
* If we can come up with an even one example of a breach of privacy that is not related to property rights, regardless of how likely or unlikely that breach might happen, then the first statement is false. Likewise, if we can come up any logical concept of privacy without relating to property rights, then the second statement is false. This is not an example of wanting a perfect rule, or finding a nitpick in an otherwise wonderful philosophy. This is what I was getting at when I said arguing that X logically follows from Y, is a fundamentally different question than X wouldn't often happen from Y.
Here is a math example: Premise: 3,5,7 are prime numbers, so all odd numbers are prime numbers. Disproof: 3*3=9, 9 is odd, so not all odd numbers are prime. I can come up with an unlimited number of these kind of examples. But unless you are able to follow the underlying logic, I feel you will continue to ridicule irrelevant details of the example, whine about me assuming all bosses are pervs or something (like a poster above), or changing the subject by saying... kumbaya! that just wouldn't happen in LiberLand, kumbaya!
Instead of coming up with more examples for you to miss the logical point, can we agree on the underlying logic first?
* There would have to be some positive logical argument that moves from some set of Libertarian principles (NAP, absolute property rights, violent absolute contact enforcement, and/or whatever it is you happen to believe which you identify as non-NAP, non-homesteading, and non-rule-based).
Here is a math example: Premise: There are an infinite number of prime numbers: Proof: Assume there are a finite number of primes, multiply them together and add one. The resulting number cannot be divided by any of the assumed primes. So proved by contradiction, there are an infinite number of primes.
So would you like to make a logical argument that moves from whatever your personal Libertarian principles to a concept of privacy? I can't do that for you because I have no idea what your personal Libertarian principles are.
* Can we agree that the mainstream Libertarian NAP cannot move to any meaningful concept of privacy? Several posters have asked Libertarians to explicitly use the wording of the NAP to do so. I believe I have given examples that show it cannot be done (see reasoning above). And so far Libertarians (&etc) have studiously ignored the question. All we have heard is... soundofcrickets.wav.
Famous Libertarians (&etc) "thinkers" are on record as being pro-slavery, like Block and Noziak. And you yourself: "a man should be free to sell himself into servitude". After a former person is enslaved they are an chattel animal, so only one person is involved at the end of the transaction, they do not magically become two people to add to up to some "third party". WTF are you blogging about? And WTF only stupid people associate you dudes with slavery. You yourself just four lines up identified yourself as pro-slavery. Are you calling yourself stupid?
A perv executive who makes 1000x what a line worker makes opens up a hobby business. He hires ten hotties for line worker wages, two supervisors for 5x line worker wages, and spends 10x a line workers wages to rent the offices and create busy work for the hotties. This is only 3% of the pervs wages, an easily sustainable hobby budget.I feel my slightly generalized reasoning is 100% correct here. Would you care to explain my mistake?
We have already established ITT that in LiberLand that any privacy concerns would have to be explicitly spelled out. The perv writes a valid Libertarian employment contract that subtly leaves out an effective privacy clause. And then he secretly violates what would be considered the hotties privacy under real World Capitalism.
So no fraud, a nominal cost to the perv, and perfectly legal and righteous to Libertarians.
I am asking you a second time if you would like to explain your reasoning here? Do you disagree with Nielso, that any privacy concerns would have to be explicitly contracted in LiberLand?
No I am not. Did you even read what I blogged back to tomdomaine...
Today under real world Capitalism, there are perv bosses and landlords who put secret cameras in their offices or apartments. This is a fact of life. They are willing to roll the dice, and take their chances that the real world Capitalist's government won't catch them and punish them. In LiberLand they will act the same.
But in a mature LiberLand, such pervish actions will be legal, righteous, and stigma free. They at most might be considered rude, like farting in church. There is a non-zero amount of perv bosses and landlords who today, under real world Capitalism, would like to act out their desires, but they don't because they are scared of the legal punishments or the stigma of being caught. These pervs would be enabled under Libertarian Capitalism.
So logically we can conclude that this pervish activity would be more widespread under Libertarian Capitalism than real world Capitalism. Who knows if it would be 150%, 300%, or 1000% more likely.
Does that sound like I am looking for any absolutist guarantees here? WTF? Sure the first group of pervs will perv under any system because they are willing to roll the dice and take their chances. The second non-zero group are enabled under Libertarian Capitalism, as their pervish activity would not be sanctioned or stigmatized.
1. One valid example disproves the "logically must follow" premise, and that example does not have to be likely, etc. We are on the same page here, correct?
2. Why don't you give a shot as at a positive explanation of how you get from whatever your Libertarians principles to some useful considerations of privacy. You do realize that even if I or anyone else can't come up with an example of an "odd non-prime", that that does not logically prove that none exists, correct?
3. Do we both in fact agree that the mainstream Libertarian NAP does not logically imply any considerations of privacy?
Selling yourself as a servant is not slavery.[...]
If a 20 year old indentures himself for 80 years, is that not slavery? Or how about a 60 year old for 30 years? In the historical examples and today in the EAU at least the "timed slaves" count only be exploited to a maximum number of years. But since in LiberLand anything that can be written on paper can be "voluntarily" agreed to, and their is no "social contract" or government interference in contract length, like under real world Capitalism, there is nothing to stop these "timed forever slaves" from being created.
Just being pro-indentured servitude itself shows what a morally bankrupt and evil pseudo-philosophy you are championing. And the traded off is... what is going to be so wonderful in LiberLand that this egregious human rights violation would be necessary and obviously wide spread... well let's see soybeans would be free, free to live in a free market without government price interference, that's pretty much it... oh yeah and rich people wouldn't have to pay taxes anymore... sad, sad, sad.
The responsibility is on you for something you wish to be private to stay private.
In practice this would mean that adding a no-bathroom-recording (in generalized form) would be added to the contract between road owners and gas stations and thus between road users and the roads owners (or something equivalent). And maybe even as a standard clause in any private contracting network.
In practice this would mean that adding a no-bathroom-recording (in generalized form) would be added to the contract between road owners and gas stations and thus between road users and the roads owners (or something equivalent). And maybe even as a standard clause in any private contracting network.
* Do you believe that your version of LiberLand would have the same feature?
* Do you believe that every contract that did not have privacy clauses explicitly mentioned is, on the face of it, is fraudulent? If so, doesn't this contradict the concept of absolute contracts?
* Do you believe that simply and passively offering employment contracts without privacy clauses is, on the face of it, fraudulent? Nobody has a gun at the employees head, correct?
* Today under real world Capitalism employment contracts do not typically include specific privacy clauses, as these are handled by statute. If a boss offered one of these real world Capitalistic employment contracts to someone in LiberLand would they be committing fraud?
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* Do you believe that your version of LiberLand would have the same feature?
* Do you believe that every contract that did not have privacy clauses explicitly mentioned is, on the face of it, is fraudulent? If so, doesn't this contradict the concept of absolute contracts?
* Do you believe that simply and passively offering employment contracts without privacy clauses is, on the face of it, fraudulent? Nobody has a gun at the employees head, correct?
* Today under real world Capitalism employment contracts do not typically include specific privacy clauses, as these are handled by statute. If a boss offered one of these real world Capitalistic employment contracts to someone in LiberLand would they be committing fraud?
2. This conversation on privacy is quite dull. If it's not common law, then there's no reason not to have contract law pull up the slack. If the boss isn't a perv then the boss should have no qualms about signing a contract.
3. Even if it isn't spelled out, the final ruling will be the subjective ruling of a court of some type.
4. You won't like my answer because you assume that bosses will have all the capitalz, and all the powerz, and people won't get to pick where they work etc.
The problem is incentives. I pick agents to protect what I say is mine, and you pick your agents to protect what you say is yours. If I say I want some privacy, and you say I can't have it, our agencies can either:
1) work out an agreement voluntarily
2) go to war
3) or pick a court.
Governments face the same dilemmas. What I object to is that the agents get to pick you, rather than you get to pick the agents. Minarchists and Constitutionalists try to solve this problem with elections, which assume the collective wisdom of the majority of a voting population. I try to solve it with the market which assumes that these agencies could co-exist without going to war too frequently. You try to solve it, correct me if I'm wrong MissleDog, by trying to abolish property.
So, being that we're on the internetz, can't we just discuss it without the ritualistic knee-jerk nastiness that we're all to use to encountering? That would be a refreshing way to start 2011.
Well let me work on it, this could be hard... not. But before I do, there were three points which you quoted here...
1. One valid example disproves the "logically must follow" premise, and that example does not have to be likely, etc. We are on the same page here, correct?
2. Why don't you give a shot as at a positive explanation of how you get from whatever your Libertarians principles to some useful considerations of privacy. You do realize that even if I or anyone else can't come up with an example of an "odd non-prime", that that does not logically prove that none exists, correct?
3. Do we both in fact agree that the mainstream Libertarian NAP does not logically imply any considerations of privacy?
1. One valid example disproves the "logically must follow" premise, and that example does not have to be likely, etc. We are on the same page here, correct?
2. Why don't you give a shot as at a positive explanation of how you get from whatever your Libertarians principles to some useful considerations of privacy. You do realize that even if I or anyone else can't come up with an example of an "odd non-prime", that that does not logically prove that none exists, correct?
3. Do we both in fact agree that the mainstream Libertarian NAP does not logically imply any considerations of privacy?
An indentured servant is the equivalent of a "timed slave". And of course, this form of "timed slavery" is still practiced, most notably in the EAU. These "timed slaves" are in the complete control of their masters, down where they are allowed to travel and live, what work they are violently commanded to do, what food they are allowed to eat, what sexual and family relations the are allowed to have, what living conditions they must endure, etc, etc. They are legally subject to physical violence by the master to enforce this contract or at any whim, as they have no civil rights, and they have no legal cause to complain. In fact, they are "down by law" and the authorities will violently interfere on the masters side to ensure his property "rights" in another human being. According to the UN Human Rights declaration of 1948, it is considered the equivalent of slavery and is human rights crime.
If a 20 year old indentures himself for 80 years, is that not slavery? Or how about a 60 year old for 30 years? In the historical examples and today in the EAU at least the "timed slaves" count only be exploited to a maximum number of years. But since in LiberLand anything that can be written on paper can be "voluntarily" agreed to, and their is no "social contract" or government interference in contract length, like under real world Capitalism, there is nothing to stop these "timed forever slaves" from being created.
Just being pro-indentured servitude itself shows what a morally bankrupt and evil pseudo-philosophy you are championing. And the traded off is... what is going to be so wonderful in LiberLand that this egregious human rights violation would be necessary and obviously wide spread... well let's see soybeans would be free, free to live in a free market without government price interference, that's pretty much it... oh yeah and rich people wouldn't have to pay taxes anymore... sad, sad, sad.
If a 20 year old indentures himself for 80 years, is that not slavery? Or how about a 60 year old for 30 years? In the historical examples and today in the EAU at least the "timed slaves" count only be exploited to a maximum number of years. But since in LiberLand anything that can be written on paper can be "voluntarily" agreed to, and their is no "social contract" or government interference in contract length, like under real world Capitalism, there is nothing to stop these "timed forever slaves" from being created.
Just being pro-indentured servitude itself shows what a morally bankrupt and evil pseudo-philosophy you are championing. And the traded off is... what is going to be so wonderful in LiberLand that this egregious human rights violation would be necessary and obviously wide spread... well let's see soybeans would be free, free to live in a free market without government price interference, that's pretty much it... oh yeah and rich people wouldn't have to pay taxes anymore... sad, sad, sad.
Clearly a person wishing to sell themselves into servitude is far different than one party selling another party an unwilling third party into servitude, so it'd probably be smart to not try and equivocate the two here, bud. I mean, I know it puts a bit of a dampening on rhetorical emotional appeal and all, but let's try and stay honest here.
According to Nielsio in LiberLand the hotties would have to explicitly ask for privacy protections be written into the contract. Otherwise the boss is just legally, righteously, and without any stigma, enjoying his property rights, amirite?
Clearly the boss withholding this information from the hotties is committing fraud. It cannot be said to be a consensual exchange if all the terms of agreement are not known to all parties. It is called disclosure and it is a pretty important part of contract law. You should look into it sometime.
* Do you believe that your version of LiberLand would have the same feature?
* Do you believe that every contract that did not have privacy clauses explicitly mentioned is, on the face of it, is fraudulent? If so, doesn't this contradict the concept of absolute contracts?
* Do you believe that simply and passively offering employment contracts without privacy clauses is, on the face of it, fraudulent? Nobody has a gun at the employees head, correct?
* Today under real world Capitalism employment contracts do not typically include specific privacy clauses, as these are handled by statute. If a boss offered one of these real world Capitalistic employment contracts to someone in LiberLand would they be committing fraud?
Well, you could always "choose" to starve. Or hunt feral cats?
No, that is an instance of coercion, as one of your existing options is actually being made worse by the threat of violence from another party.
See what I mean about defining your terms to suit?
The state coerces me to do all sorts of things without ever resorting to violence. Arguably, it can do so because it monopolises the means of violence, but that is not the mechanism it in fact uses.
Who is coercing you into taking a job? Someone holding a gun to your head and saying "go work at McDonalds or I'm going to blow your ****ing head off"?
You are going to die but I am entirely blameless, right? Because I have not committed any violence whatsoever against you. I can just watch you die because you won't choose to get up and have a chicken dinner?
Yes, there is the work/starve paradox. This only happens though because there is scarcity in the universe.
Coercion works because of the threat of violence, so yes.
Again, yes. Man has no duty to fellow man. If the dying person has absolutely no friends in the world, then perhaps s/he is not worth saving?
Let's say I run a hospital and you have been brought to it as my patient. You were unconscious so you could not refuse to be brought to it. You have been severely injured in a car crash and cannot feed yourself. I decide not to feed you by drip. No one you know has the means to remove you from the hospital to another facility where you can be fed.
You are going to die but I am entirely blameless, right? Because I have not committed any violence whatsoever against you. I can just watch you die because you won't choose to get up and have a chicken dinner?
You are going to die but I am entirely blameless, right? Because I have not committed any violence whatsoever against you. I can just watch you die because you won't choose to get up and have a chicken dinner?
No, of course it doesn't. It happens because the means of production are not held in common. Your statement doesn't even make sense unless you're suggesting we could all have farms if we had a bigger planet.
But why should we all want to be farmers?
I can see a decent argument that humankind would be more content if we lived in relatively structureless seminomadic groups, ruled only by custom and fellowship.
But we don't and can't, and the belief that if we adopted the structures that pertain in those groups will somehow bring that contentment to us is pretty much crazy.
Coercion works because of the threat of violence, so yes.
In your favoured legal system, xeer, participants do not have the choice not to comply. They won't be physically hurt if they don't, but they are still coerced to accept xeer. I mean, you can define away the element of coercion in that if you like, but simply splitting hairs over terminology doesn't change the reality of the element of compulsion.
Again, yes. Man has no duty to fellow man. If the dying person has absolutely no friends in the world, then perhaps s/he is not worth saving?
I disagree that man has no duty to fellow man btw. I am not going to indulge you in a long debate about it, but I'd consider that belief pathological in the face of the evidence against it.
What are you talking about?
I can see a decent argument that humankind would be more content if we lived in relatively structureless seminomadic groups, ruled only by custom and fellowship.
But we don't and can't, and the belief that if we adopted the structures that pertain in those groups will somehow bring that contentment to us is pretty much crazy.
But we don't and can't, and the belief that if we adopted the structures that pertain in those groups will somehow bring that contentment to us is pretty much crazy.
Here we go again. I never said my favored legal system was 'xeer'. This seems to be a one-way conversation you're having with yourself, or a two-way with yourself and a strawman.
participants do not have the choice not to comply. They won't be physically hurt if they don't, but they are still coerced to accept xeer. I mean, you can define away the element of coercion in that if you like, but simply splitting hairs over terminology doesn't change the reality of the element of compulsion.
Lol, you're post regarding the dying man was clearly starting that debate, but OK. Even if they have duty to fellow man, and its psychological, then why worry about such situations?
If nobody worked, then we'd all starve. So if by standards of force you're saying that people are forced to work to live, and that's involuntary, then I see no way to solve that just by asserting "common property". It doesn't solve the work/starve paradox anyway. Obviously there is force involved by these standards, because nobody lives forever. So, this idea of force being "forced to work" in a society, doesn't make much sense.
I don't know how it was done back in the day but in societies where it's still the norm, which are very few now, it's simply customary. I expect we'd have to use guns now.
This is the only way scarce resources has a bearing on this particular issue.
What else is an anarchy to you?
First of all, I think you need to revise the concept of "your money". Money is just a representation of the share of our common resources you are permitted to have. Yes, "permitted". Theories of government in economics are at base theories about how we jointly apportion resources.
Second, money in the US has value at base because of its use to pay tax liabilities. You can certainly argue that this is a bad basis for money but this is the basis that we currently use.
Third, taxation has a vital role in the regulation of the economy we all take part in. Your "money" wouldn't be worth more if you paid no taxes. This is a misconception. You wouldn't be "worth" more. I'm not going to explain why because getting bogged down in a discussion of economics with a Libertarian is like playing chess with a gorilla.
You seem to feel it exemplifies the kind of legal system you do favour. If you don't feel that, I don't know why you even bothered mentioning it.
So ultimately you believe that it's legitimate to impose a legal system through violence?
Because it is going to be the case that disputes over which legal system to use will arise and your prescription is for everyone to arm up and let the gun decide.
Well, that has by and large been how it has been done over the centuries, with varying success. Of course the legal system is not decided by the "market". It's decided by whoever holds power. That power is not always a function of the ability to do violence but it is always the case that that is one means of acquiring it.
Can't help. Aren't permitted to enter the hospital. Nothing to do with me. I don't make the rules. I think they should be free to come and go, but I'm not in charge of that. There's a bunch of vigilantes on the door who do not allow outside medical teams to enter because they're protecting our property rights. Sorry about that.
Your duty to your fellow man is far from psychological, although it's a sign of a problem in your psychology that you deny it.
It's just elementary that if you do not own the means of production, you are compelled to work for someone else. If your answer is not that we should hold the means of production in common, then you accept that we must be coerced to work or starve.
What are you talking about?
Okay, but I'm not arguing that either, so okayyyy?
Okay, well people don't pay taxes because they are giddy for April 15th in the US. Maybe it's different where you're from. You can call it coercion, or whatever you like, but one day you have your money, and the next day, you don't have your money. It's not as though it is optional. It really doesn't matter much whether you choose to call it "coercion" or not.
Second, money in the US has value at base because of its use to pay tax liabilities. You can certainly argue that this is a bad basis for money but this is the basis that we currently use.
Third, taxation has a vital role in the regulation of the economy we all take part in. Your "money" wouldn't be worth more if you paid no taxes. This is a misconception. You wouldn't be "worth" more. I'm not going to explain why because getting bogged down in a discussion of economics with a Libertarian is like playing chess with a gorilla.
Here we go again. I never said my favored legal system was 'xeer'. This seems to be a one-way conversation you're having with yourself, or a two-way with yourself and a strawman.
One could choose to be an outlaw, and get a few more like minded outlaws, and start their own protection unit if they don't wish to adopt the current legal system decided upon by the market.
Because it is going to be the case that disputes over which legal system to use will arise and your prescription is for everyone to arm up and let the gun decide.
Well, that has by and large been how it has been done over the centuries, with varying success. Of course the legal system is not decided by the "market". It's decided by whoever holds power. That power is not always a function of the ability to do violence but it is always the case that that is one means of acquiring it.
Well, where the hell are they? This man/woman is dying for crying out loud! Not very good friends imo if man/woman dies because they aren't there to help.
Lol, you're post regarding the dying man was clearly starting that debate, but OK. Even if they have duty to fellow man, and its psychological, then why worry about such situations?
If nobody worked, then we'd all starve. So if by standards of force you're saying that people are forced to work to live, and that's involuntary, then I see no way to solve that just by asserting "common property". It doesn't solve the work/starve paradox anyway. Obviously there is force involved by these standards, because nobody lives forever. So, this idea of force being "forced to work" in a society, doesn't make much sense.
Yes, you do have to work/starve. Similarily, you have to breath or die of no oxygen. It's called the dis-utility of labor. That should be obvious to an obv. ace such as yourself.
Even though the oxygen is largely held in common, you still have to work to go get it as an individual to avoid brain-death. So, I guess you're forced to breath too under your definitions. Oh nooz!
You're way, way off topic, but if you want to start a thread on how man has a duty to fellow man, or that man has a right to help from fellow men, then do so. You haven't come close to showing that here.
I mentioned 'xeer' in a different thread, btw... you're just all over the place.
Even though the oxygen is largely held in common, you still have to work to go get it as an individual to avoid brain-death. So, I guess you're forced to breath too under your definitions. Oh nooz!
You're way, way off topic, but if you want to start a thread on how man has a duty to fellow man, or that man has a right to help from fellow men, then do so. You haven't come close to showing that here.
I mentioned 'xeer' in a different thread, btw... you're just all over the place.
Can't help. Aren't permitted to enter the hospital. Nothing to do with me. I don't make the rules. I think they should be free to come and go, but I'm not in charge of that. There's a bunch of vigilantes on the door who do not allow outside medical teams to enter because they're protecting our property rights. Sorry about that.
First of all, I think you need to revise the concept of "your money". Money is just a representation of the share of our common resources you are permitted to have. Yes, "permitted". Theories of government in economics are at base theories about how we jointly apportion resources.
Problem though, the elite isn't exactly very good at resource management games. Perhaps part of this is because every time it starts to run low it shakes down the population as though they were a money tree. Sure, it takes from some parts to give to other parts after giving first to its friends. Overall though all property is government, and permission is granted by government.
The elites are by far the weakest members of society. Put it this way, if three people, a lawyer, a politician, and a doctor, were drowning in a pond and you could only save one of them, which one would you pick?
Spoiler:
libertarians would pick the doctor
Yeah so in other words when people say they are "forced" to do something, what they really mean is that none of their existing options are as good or as preferable to the one being offered.
No, see that is what coercion means.
Offering a starving man a meal for exchange of a day of his labor isn't coercing him to work. It isn't making any of his other options worse.
The threat of violence suffices to coerce people too.
That would depend entirely on whether you as a doctor are under some sort of contractual obligation to provide care to me. In absence of any such contract, the onus is on you to demonstrate where exactly such an obligation to provide some service to a person arises from.
So the only way I can coerce someone to do something is to use violence?
See what I mean about defining your terms to suit?
See what I mean about defining your terms to suit?
Offering a starving man a meal for exchange of a day of his labor isn't coercing him to work. It isn't making any of his other options worse.
The state coerces me to do all sorts of things without ever resorting to violence. Arguably, it can do so because it monopolises the means of violence, but that is not the mechanism it in fact uses.
Let's say I run a hospital and you have been brought to it as my patient. You were unconscious so you could not refuse to be brought to it. You have been severely injured in a car crash and cannot feed yourself. I decide not to feed you by drip. No one you know has the means to remove you from the hospital to another facility where you can be fed.
You are going to die but I am entirely blameless, right? Because I have not committed any violence whatsoever against you. I can just watch you die because you won't choose to get up and have a chicken dinner?
You are going to die but I am entirely blameless, right? Because I have not committed any violence whatsoever against you. I can just watch you die because you won't choose to get up and have a chicken dinner?
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