Nobody asked but … Lifeboat scenarios are by definition, statistically meaningless, extremely unlikely in probability, useless in practicality. Central planners need not apply. Every individual, in every place and time, must make choices, even in the face of boundless unforeseen consequences. kilgore
Category: Nobody Asked, But
The Fallacy Fallacy
Nobody asked but … We might even call this fallacy the Facebook Fallacy. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. One will frequently see another person post in a thread on Facebook, “That’s an ‘Appeal to Authority!’” or a citation of another logic fallacy. So what? An appeal to authority in form is not necessarily…
Government and Voluntaryism
Nobody asked but … If we decide that Government of an appropriate size and Voluntaryism are both economic goods, how shall we proceed to construct non-corrupted versions of each? With any two people government and voluntary agreement are one, because any departure would be a corruption — any instance of a disagreement converted to an…
Moving On
Nobody asked but … Here in the Bluegrass, we are currently weathering one of our annular kerfuffles. Seven of the gladiators for the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team declared a surrender of their college athletic eligibility to seek their fortunes in the National Basketball Association (NBA). This is, by the way, record-setting both for the school…
Natural Law
Nobody asked but … If there were no natural law, if orderliness mandates human intervention, by force if necessary, then how has the rest of the Universe managed? Even if the Universe is full of sentient beings, demanding order, their efforts are undetectable. Maybe, that is why immorality and amorality hold such popular sway, as…
RE: Profits
Nobody asked but … Government interference in the market is just like daylight savings time. At best it can only create the appearance of change, even if it were a friction free manipulation. Since the government never needs to justify adequately their intervention with a fair evaluation according to Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson —…
RE: Hierarchy II
Nobody asked but … Hierarchy in its self-ordering occurrence in nature is no more ruler-dominated than any other relationship among people, places, things (including relationships), and events (all objects fall into one of these categories). The food chain is an anarchical hierarchy. The trouble is, in part, a failure of language. The root suffix “-archy”…
Civilization
Nobody asked but … Kilgore from Another 2000+ Libertarian Quotes
Anarchy Is!
Nobody asked but … There is only one miniscule scenario in the universe, that we know of, where there is pushback against anarchy. The very lowest population of mammals on Earth is primates, and only a fraction of them can even conceive of constructed laws. Mammals are the least populace (with the possible exception of…
Rentseeking a la Migrational Purity
Nobody asked but … Let me get this straight. We like paying taxes, we just want to control which rathole the money goes down? We don’t want illegals to get any of the spillage from our graft and corruption system. We want to improve the efficiency of the graft system by insisting that the government…