ARISTOCRACY IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE MEANS OF EQUALITY
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-11 05:58:00 UTC
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Cato-Institute-libertarian-in-political-views-How
Theme: Governance
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SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEM —“As long as there is market demand for statism it w
SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEM
—“As long as there is market demand for statism it will exist. It doesn’t matter how many bodies you throw into the volcano..”— Jamin.
What conditions are necessary to eliminate demand for the state?
Libertarians love to demonize the state while conveniently denying that historically it was a market good – at least in the west, if not center or east.
The state evolved out of demand, from partnerships, just as corporations evolved from partnerships, for exactly the same reasons.
Market towns were made.
To eliminate the state we must eliminate demand for the state.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 10:42:00 UTC
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There is a vast difference between minimum liberty necessary for the market and
There is a vast difference between minimum liberty necessary for the market and maximum liberty for our personal desires.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 07:26:00 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476263998963580928
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Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476254956362932224
IN REPLY TO:
@LibertarianMike
“We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most mora… http://t.co/sjOxDz3kQl
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Unfortnately Hayek fails to state that others prefer the minimum liberty to secu
Unfortnately Hayek fails to state that others prefer the minimum liberty to secure predictability, while we the maximum.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 07:24:17 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476263567952723968
Reply addressees: @LibertarianMike
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476254956362932224
IN REPLY TO:
@LibertarianMike
“We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most mora… http://t.co/sjOxDz3kQl
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476254956362932224
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LIBERTY AS LUXURY, POSSIBILITY, OR IMPOSSIBILITY (worth repeating) —“So whethe
LIBERTY AS LUXURY, POSSIBILITY, OR IMPOSSIBILITY
(worth repeating)
—“So whether one chooses the necessary and sufficient arguments of Aristocratic Egalitarian Libertarianism (Aristocracy), or the luxuries of humanitarian libertarianism (Classical Liberalism), that is merely a preference, not a question of possibility. While the choice of rothbardian ‘thin’ libertarianism (Libertinism) is just the opposite: it’s impossible.”—
We do not get to choose the incentives that will produce a voluntary anarchic polity. We can estimate them. Wet can test them. We can demonstrate them. We can measure them. But we cannot choose them.
Transaction costs determine the desirability of different polities. The rational choice of a voluntary, anarchic polity over a statist polity requires a high trust society.
Once one possesses a voluntary, high trust society, one can also engage in the production and consumption of luxuries – commons. But luxuries are not the same as necessities.
Curt Doolittle
The Philosophy of Aristocracy
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 02:29:00 UTC
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Eli On Monarchy As The Golden Mean —“Ancap in theory resolves to monarchy in p
Eli On Monarchy As The Golden Mean
—“Ancap in theory resolves to monarchy in practice, because you can’t prevent property from becoming unequally distributed. My property, my rules: equals monarchy.
The only question is one of scale, and when economies of scale are likely to be balanced by the diseconomies. Large landlords are able to suppress free-riding among their tenants and provide them with public goods that they can’t produce as independent, sovereign, small landowners. But very large landlords are subject to knowledge and incentive problems that make it increasingly unlikely that they actually will.
There’s not really a “legitimacy” issue. All property originates in conquest. Original appropriation, expropriation, they’re just variations on a theme. Fencing off unowned land, formerly free for use by all, and announcing, henceforth, any trespass will be subject to retaliatory violence is inherently an act of aggression.
Once property is owned, and markets for its transfer exist, there’s no reason not to expect it to be consolidated into relatively few hands, and many reasons to suppose that it will be. The market will demand lords. And the market will provide.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 11:54:00 UTC
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So, why is the liberty movement moving from the states as the central point if a
So, why is the liberty movement moving from the states as the central point if advocacy, to the UK?
(Part of me blames the damage done by MI.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 08:03:00 UTC
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Is The Cato Institute Libertarian In Political Views? How?
Technically, Cato, is a classical liberal libertarian institution favoring small government, and the civil society. (Cato does work within the system and has an audience in DC because it works within the system.) The Heritage group also favors traditional society and classical liberalism. The majority of the remaining think tanks (FEI, etc) place more emphasis on economic policy and less on social (normative) rules. Only the Mises Institute and its network advocates anarchism, and the Property and Freedom Society advocates private government. The Mises Institute takes advantage of the rabidly autistic male population seeking social connection on the internet, which gives them disproportionate presence relative to their nominal if not negative influence on policy and thought. -
Should The Government Have The Right To Censor Videos Like Collateral Murder? Why Or Why Not?
I WILL TRY TO DO THIS QUESTION JUSTICE.
How you frame the question influences answers. I’ll try to give the correct answer by reframing the question slightly as other than yes or no.
The philosophical question censorship is not whether government should have the ability, but (1) whether members of the military should or can sign a contract for secrecy inclusive of ‘accidents’ within the fog of war, and exclusive of deliberate immoral actions; and whether that contract has been broken by some member of the military or a non-military person, and (2) whether citizens, or heirs, should possess the universal standing to sue for reparations in the event that such actions subject them to harm. Censorship is always a license for bad behavior from governments, that too often specialize in bad behavior. Restitution in court is a much more effective means of suppressing bad behavior on everyone’s part, citizen and government as well, than censorship which produces so many negative externalities.
The combination of contract and harm under the law is superior to monopoly discretion on the part of a bureaucrat or politician with conflicting interests.https://www.quora.com/Should-the-government-have-the-right-to-censor-videos-like-Collateral-Murder-Why-or-why-not
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Is The Cato Institute Libertarian In Political Views? How?
Technically, Cato, is a classical liberal libertarian institution favoring small government, and the civil society. (Cato does work within the system and has an audience in DC because it works within the system.) The Heritage group also favors traditional society and classical liberalism. The majority of the remaining think tanks (FEI, etc) place more emphasis on economic policy and less on social (normative) rules. Only the Mises Institute and its network advocates anarchism, and the Property and Freedom Society advocates private government. The Mises Institute takes advantage of the rabidly autistic male population seeking social connection on the internet, which gives them disproportionate presence relative to their nominal if not negative influence on policy and thought.https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Cato-Institute-libertarian-in-political-views-How