(K) When someone at LRC says he likes the new platform, I wonder what is wrong with it. People should be allowed to freely move across political borders, so...
[cc'ing LPplatform-discuss . All my future replies in this thread will cc: individuals only if they are quoted or named in the message.] Roderick Long wrote to...
Roderick Long wrote: RL) Well, I've already said that being a minarchist doesn't disqualify someone as being a libertarian. He said you weren't a libertarian...
Roderick Long wrote: RL) Given that LaBianca, in the comments I saw, simply described you as rejecting the nonaggression principle but said nothing about the...
Roderick Long wrote: RL) Maybe they would count as a libertarian in some broad sense. (RL Like, say, the dictionary sense: "One who advocates maximizing ...
... Isn't the concept of using aggression to minimize aggression contradictory ? I can see using defense to minimize aggression. -- Howard Pearce Using...
Thomas Knapp wrote: When and if any one of the world's states can get their annual murder-by-government rates down into, say, the six-figure range, we can talk...
Thomas Knapp wrote: TK) The proposition was that the burden of proof as to whether the state does X effectively is on the state, not on those who doubt that...
Roderick Long wrote: BH) hundreds of millions in population; continental geographic extent (BH RL) Population of what? Extent of what? (RL I hoped this was...
On July 13, Professor Roderick Long wrote to the members of the LP Platform Committee and LP National Committee to complain about ideological intolerance on...
I think you all should read my article, "Reality Check": http://anarchistpov
wordpress.com/2009/02/24/reality-check/ Also, if there are any among you who have...
I think you all should read my article, "Reality Check": http://anarchistpov.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/reality-check/ Also, if there are any among you who have...
(BH) And yes, since I'm not a market anarchist, I do believe in the existence of market failure for not only public goods (national defense, universal justice)...
(BH) Extent... of the geographic region for which you want the LPUS to advocate statelessness (or at least state powerlessness). (K) That would be a physical...
(K) Thanks, Brian, for the Pinker article. Very good reading and I agree, modernity and humanism do tend to reduce levels of aggression and we are headed in...
enforcing a due-process-observing monopoly on retaliatory force; (K) First, "due process" incorporates Spencer's Social Statics, so the current system often...
taxing aggression when it takes the form of pollution (K) This would not be a "tax", but a fine. taxing aggression when it takes the form of appropriating...
Did you even read my article? Organization, itself, isn't the problem. I think you're missing the point: There is no legitimate claim to me, by you
or any...
(DK) Did you even read my article? (K) Yes, and my reading ability has been tested at the 99.9th percentile. (DK) Organization, itself, isn't the problem. (K)...
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:22:00 -0400, kevin Bjornson ... Being Arrested comes under the heading of defense against a perceived threat. If it is is done unjustly,...
1. With all due respect, I'm not interested in your reading ability or any
self-aggrandizing. I'm only interested in knowing whether or not you read,
and...
1. With all due respect, I'm not interested in your reading ability or any self-aggrandizing. I'm only interested in knowing whether or not you read, and...
... (HP) Being Arrested comes under the heading of defense against a perceived threat. If it is is done unjustly, then one may have recourse. (K) Yes, of...
I'm glad that you have good reading skills and that we can agree on a few
points. Not all aggression comes from government, correct, but I am opposed to it no...
(DK) You may not favor the "current" system, but you seem to be advocating for some level of government based upon your previous statement, "...beneficial...
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:09:27 -0400, kevin Bjornson ... Please keep in mind that definitions are not concepts and the lack of an all inclusive definition...
(HP) Please keep in mind that definitions are not concepts and the lack of an all inclusive definition covering all the underlying concepts is not necessarily...
(K) Your equation: government = institutionalized intiation of force, is not supported by dictionaries, logic, or evidence. "Govern" (in a political context)...
DK - Show me one "proper" government in human history that hasn't ended up trampling freedom and killing multitudes of people. (K) show me one example of a...
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