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[…] for yourself, and decide who was right. Here’s part 1 of my post, and here’s part 2. There’s a link to Brennan’s original post within part 1 of […] LikeLike

[…] violence. But read the “exchange” for yourself, and decide who was right. Here’s part 1 of my post, and here’s part 2. There’s a link to Brennan’s original post within part 1 of […] LikeLike

In reply to John Davenport. Agree with that. Despite having almost finished the book (and despite having read Gauthier on the same subject), I guess I’m still unclear on the underlying rationale for insisting on a form of ethical justification th…

In reply to John Davenport. I agree with that. I’m no longer up on the literature, so perhaps things have changed, but when I was up on the literature, there wasn’t much in the way of a response to this problem. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Here is the text of the New Jersey anti-boycott law. It was S.1923, but is now chapter 24 of the state code, supplementing PL 1950. Click to access 24_.PDF LikeLike

In reply to Michael Brazier. I half-agree with that, or perhaps agree with half of that. I agree with your second paragraph, and obviously, with the opening claim that the Eighth Circuit is in error. I regard Title II as a debatable issue, but whatever…

In reply to <a href=”https://prosociallibertarians.com/2022/06/24/moralism-and-contemporary-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-235″>Izgad</a>. No problem at all! Thanks for reading! I have somewhat mixed views about how to go with the thin vs thick libertarianism. I tend to go thin, though I have fairly definite views about what a thicker morality requires. (I don’t think libertarian political morality must adopt that thicker view.)

In reply to <a href=”https://prosociallibertarians.com/2022/06/24/moralism-and-contemporary-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-234″>Izgad</a>. My apologies for the comment as this point should be well known to readers. I wrote this after reading the post in my email feed and thinking that it came from a different site where readers would be less likely to know these things.

“Importantly, libertarians are different. We believe that people should be free to live their lives as they see fit subject only to the restriction that they don’t wrongfully harm others. Some might say that this is a form of moralism as well—one wherein the view of morality is simply thinner than those of the other…