“I can remember you saying you’d position yourself right of Hoppe though, lol”–

—“I can remember you saying you’d position yourself right of Hoppe though, lol”— Roy Van de Weteringh

Yeah, well, Hoppe, as a german, and an academic, has german intuitions. As an american, and an englishman, and an entrepreneur and a social scientist, I have different intuitions: man is rational and predation is rational.

So it’s more accurate to say that I am more INTOLERANT of violations than Hoppe, and Hoppe is more INTOLERANT of violations than Rothbard.

The reason being that I see the accumulation of consequences cheaply produced as insurmountable by competition, whereas he sees competition as producing sufficient value that negative consequences can be defeated. And Rothbard either ignores the accumulation of consequences, or sees the destructive consequences as a ‘good’ war against the white man.

Hoppe’s just wrong. The accumulation of falsehoods by the Cathedral Religion is all the evidence we need.

There is no difference between the manufacture, distribution, and sale of products, services, and information. And rothbard limits us to products, hoppe to an optimistic view of services, and me(doolittle) extends to information. I am more pessimistic than the other two.