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DeLong to PACS Professors: Grow Up
I generally disagree with UC Berkeley Professor and PEIS Chair Professor Brad Delong’s worldview and method of internet discourse (deleting comments, ahem), but it pleases me to see him stirring up anger among extreme leftists in the social sciences. DeLong prides himself on his supposed freedom from bias, which naturally precludes him buying into the bulk of [...]
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Voluntarism Introduction
The only reason slavery is morally wrong is because it is an involuntary deal between two people.
Voluntarism is a variant of libertarian theory that builds from the self-ownership and non-agression principles. The short version of this philosophy is that you own yourself, and you can only enter into voluntary deals with others. Any human action [...]
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Tale of the Slave
An excerpt from Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia.
Why Principled Non-Violence?
I don’t see a reasonable argument for principled non-violence. If person A attacks person B, what is the principle that should stop person C from using violence or the threat thereof to defend person B?
There’s no justification for an absolute pacifist position considering peoples’ rights get violated. It’s efficient for most people to contract out [...]
I Made Another Paper!
The Examiner featured my pic of PZ Meyer’s talk at Berkeley.
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An Unintended Consequence I Can Live With
As I understand it, the House of Representatives is expected to pass a massive overhaul of the health-care sector today. The bill will expand deficits and increase the government’s role in individual decision-making regarding health-care consumption. Several months ago I posted a quote from an interview with F.A. Hayek which I think best sums up [...]
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Self Ownership
A great YouTube video on the philosophy of liberty:
Education Is Not a Right
I disagree with this graphic. The only rights are life, liberty, and property. Anything else and you are forcing other people to work for you. Just because something seems nice, doesn’t mean it is a right.
To claim education is a right is to claim that you have a right to steal from someone and spend [...]
Wilkinson’s Progressive Libertarianism