I remember the intense date caused by the mere annnouncement of this talk. So tell me, what do you think of the content?
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4 responses to “Video: Free market fairness at the ASI”
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*Bites lip*
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He waffles on and on.
It is very simple.
“Fair shares for all” is exactly what we are AGAINST. We do not believe there is a collectively owned “pie” to be divided up by some “distributor”.
We are libertarians – not the freaking Bavarian illuminati.
And there are plenty of libertarians who are NOT natural rights people – some utilitarians are just as hostile to statism. The speaker is just wrong in thinking a utiltiarian will automatically be more moderate than a natural rights person.
They oppose statism because they believe it DOES NOT WORK – not because it violates natural rights (or natural law).
End.
P.S. If we only go back to John Locke – how come that (for example) Plato slags off the traditional (i.e. libertarian) definition of justice at the start of his “Republic”.
Nor did Aristotle need a time machine to go find a libertarians – he had only to think of his political philosophy opponent Lycrophon.
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As for seeking “common ground” with the academic elite (and the rest of international leftism).
He who seeks “common ground” with his enemies is a slave.
And they are enemies.
The natural relationship between us and them is destroy or be destroyed – and, please believe me, they know that well. Never doubt their power or their ruthlessness.
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Sorry for three comments in a row – but the speaking has just used the term “social justice”.
So he has moved from “free market fairness” to “social justice”.
And he has going on about a “conversation” with the Occupy movement.
How are you going to engage in this “conversation” with a bunch of rapists and rioters? Or has he never heard of Portland and all the other places.
Politics AT BEST is squalid and corrupt – a “democratic citizen” is readically misguided. People are at their best when they are furthest away from from politics.
And street politics? Such as the Occupy movement.
That is warfare – the fight for who controls the streets.
It is bugger all to with “conversations”.
By the way Hayek never read “A Theory of Justice” – he admits that in the very book (Volume II) that the speaker quotes.
F.A. Hayek was no libertarian (not politically or philosophically) he was a limited state man (not a minimal state person or an anarchocapitlist), but he was not guilty of not understanding “A Theory of Justice” by Rawls – because HE NEVER READ THE BOOK.
This speaker has read “A Theory of Justice” – but still thinks he can have a “conversation” with the Rawlsians.
Utterly misguided.
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