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( Comments for Radical Classical Liberals ) Comment on A Trilemma for “Taxation is Theft”-Libertarians by J C Lester
>are there substantive reasons to endorse the slogan? There is no justificatory support, because of the trilemma that it faces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma >It is easy to point at differences between taxation and theft, after all … It is easy to point at differences between cats and mammals, after all … >hardly anyone can claim to own…
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(Radical Classical Liberals) A Trilemma for “Taxation is Theft”-Libertarians
Claiming that “taxation is theft” is an effective way to signal that you think of yourself as a libertarian of the more radical, uncompromising, and possibly more Rothbard-inspired sort. But are there substantive reasons to endorse the slogan? It is easy to point at differences between taxation and theft, after all: Taxation is widely regarded…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Justify Yourself by mlyoung57
In reply to djr. Okay, I’ve digested this now. Again, much thanks and super-helpful. There are some interesting issues to sort through here and I think I’ve got them sorted pretty well… djr1: I understood the contractualist to be sayi…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Justify Yourself by mlyoung57
In reply to djr. Thanks, David. Those are good, helpful points and questions. I’d been thinking, somewhat less precisely, about just this kind of adjustment to (or perhaps precification of) the contractualist thesis. I’ll chew on this a bit…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Tragedy, Catharsis, and Explanation by djr
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’d say Huemer is right insofar as one of his premises is that high school students often do not get a whole lot out of Shakespeare. I just deny that that’s a suitable reason to stop teaching it. The situation w…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Ragnarok Lobster by Ragnarok Lobster | Austro-Athenian Empire
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[cross-posted at POT and Facebook] What do Good Morning America, the Australian Outback, Mary Poppins, David Friedman, Lawrence of Arabia, and a balloon voyage to a lost colony of Vikings at the North Pole have in common? Get the answers in this video,…
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(Policy of Truth) Ragnarok Lobster
What do Good Morning America, the Australian Outback, Mary Poppins, David Friedman, Lawrence of Arabia, and a balloon voyage to a lost colony of Vikings at the North Pole have in common? Get the answers in this video, as I take you on a journey BEYOND …
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