Writes Aaron White: One of the biggest problems I hate about the word addiction is the identity people use with it. I used to smoke about a pack of day for over two years, and I even drank heavy for about 4 years (at different times). While I had a hard time quitting them both,…
Category: Items of Note
Re: Criminal Disarmament
Parrish, I’m curious if there’s anything in libertarian punishment theory that would justify a victim, or victim’s agent, using force to keep her assailant disarmed. Off the cuff, if the crime is “gun disarmament,” then wouldn’t both estoppel and proportionality justify forcible gun disarmament of the criminal? That seems compatible with libertarian punishment theory. Another…
Re: “Well I was Spanked…”
Writes Aaron White: “I was spanked and I turned out okay” can’t justify spanking unless “I was molested and I turned out okay” justifies molestation. Most people who go through different types of abuse end up growing up as a functional adult to one degree or another. People are complex, people are not fully defined…
Outrun by Market Forces
Writes Jeffrey Tucker: Many have warned that governments will not tolerate the monetary system to be reformed by a bunch of cyberpunks and their magic internet money. There will be interventions. There will be regulations. There will be taxations. There will be attempts to control. But look back at recent history. Governments tried to stop…
EVC Podcast, Episode 007 Transcription Notes
The following notes were transcribed by Daniel Paul Von SƏtler. Episode 007, “How to Increase Drunk Driving“ Politicians create laws that encourage DD to increase revenue stream. DRUNK DRIVING is in NO WAY an acceptable behavior. 1. Destroy the options for people trying to avoid driving drunk = the same fines are now imposed if…
An Inconvenient Quote
From Martin Luther King, Jr. “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.” From a speech on Vietnam, here. Skyler.
Re: Minarchy
Kilgore, here’s Amanda’s post in full: This is the last argument I will direct toward self-professed “minarchists”. After that, I have no more time for reactionaries or reformers. The free society offers too many exciting prospects for me to continue to waste time. The constant minarchist refrain is this: “Life, liberty and property. Life, liberty…
Re: Ethics of Torture
Parrish, Walter Block recently argued in his debate over spanking with Stefan Molyneux that the basis of libertarianism is not the NAP, rather its punishment theory. I think the NAP is an important component of punishment theory, as I think Block does, too, but the reason he said that was because he views libertarianism as,…
Re: Nature of Evil
Alex, very interesting article. In his conclusion, the author writes, “The longer we cling to strong beliefs about the existence of pure evil, the more aggressive and antisocial we become.” I would say that that has very important implications for voluntaryism as it concerns parenting. I understand that spanking and other forms of involuntary discipline…
EVC Podcast on Stitcher!
The EVC podcast is now available at Stitcher.com. Check it out here. Skyler.