Month: October 2014

In the sense that Walter Block advocates the Non Aggression Principle (the “NAP”), as did Murray Rothbard; and in the sense that most self identified libertarians have also adopted the NAP – then, yes, he reflects a common libertine-libertarian rational justification of the common libertine-libertarian moral sentiment. However, the liberal libertarians (the classical liberals) –…

[I]t’s winter in Kiev. It’s 27F. It’s noticeably dark early again. I’ve hung up the leather jacket, switched to the wool coat and layers. The shops have heavily discounted what remains of fall, and those without winter stock are empty. They’ve skipped the ‘autumn’ coat season here and gone right to winter-wear. The music playlists…

[I]’m really happy with having captured the difference between speaking honestly, speaking truthfully, and the mere concept of . Platonic (Analytic) Truth: the most parsimonious description that is not a tautology. Speaking Truthfully: promising an epistemic warranty, that you possess the knowledge of construction(causation) and of use(correlation), necessary to make a truth claim, consisting of…

—“Service guarantees citizenship. – This is why I served in the US military even though I wasn’t compelled to.”—David M. [S]o, for use by our Corporations we have created various forms of stock: including Controlling, Various Preferred, Common, Non-Voting, and Options. These different shares roughly reflect the different value that we bring to companies. Controlling…

http://youtu.be/kI1wQswRVaU That’s an indictment. My indictment is far harsher.  

Assumes, that the mere accumulation of power itself is not meritocratic. Yet it is.  Assumes that the skill in accumulating power is not the primary skill required for the obtainment of power.  Power requires talent.  The question is, given that humans can accumulate power by different means, what is it that we wish to achieve…

ETHNO-NATIONALISMEthnically homogenous polities, and particularly SMALL ethnically homogenous polities demonstrate higher tolerance for high taxation and high redistribution because of our biological preference for kin selection. People often advocate the scandinavian model, but these are very small countries where all individuals are near-relations, where cousin-marriage is prohibited, and where the absolute nuclear family is practiced…

(The word ‘appropriate’ is a form of linguistic dishonesty that attempts to create a moral statement where none exists.)  Instead, the question is whether a MONOPOLY (in this case, the government), that is insulated from prosecution under the law (bureaucrats), and insulated from market pressures (competition), is superior to a POLYPOLY, in which all members…

I can’t figure out if this is an honest question or some moron’s bot-work. The only assumption in marginal utility is that it is a general rule of arbitrary precision like all general rules must be constructed of arbitrary precision by logical necessity.   So as far as I know, no assumptions external to the construction…

Capitalism: the voluntary organization of consumer production.  (Liberty) Socialism: the involuntary organization of consumer production. (Totalitarianism) Mixed Economy: the voluntary organization of consumer production, and the involuntary redistribution of the rewards earned by organizing consumer production. (A trade-off between liberty and totalitarianism). Socialism is impossible, since neither the incentives to produce, nor the means of…

No.  Popper’s argument (like many of his disingenuous political arguments) was an attempt at deflection from Popper’s factions.   His contribution to science not withstanding. The reason for the rise of totalitarianism in the west was the moral legitimacy given to statism by the Marxists, Socialists, Keynesians and Postmodernists, and later the neo-Conservatives. However, the Marxists,…