Recent content by xarthaz

If you reject the concept of choice(aka humans are behavioral beings, not actors) then totalitarianism is the answer, not a couple of ethical laws

This does nothing to differentiate the state from the mafia/racketeering enterprise.

Preference is ordinal, not cardinal

That is not part of the definiton of state..

Thats what ownership is. The guy with the biggest club to enforce ownership owns the subjects in question. Hence the duality of state and capitalism. As without a state the "biggest club" wouldnt exist, hence property rights wouldnt be possible to define. This is all descriptive of course, the...

You cant steal something that you already own beforehand. And the fact is, for practical purposes government owns all the land and capital you use in their jurisdiction, though they realize that increasing their capital value and future revenue can be achieved by allowing people to "rent" it...

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debate? there has not been a single response to the methodological foundations of praxeology.. in fact all the claimed "ecoonomists" hree have produced is skepticism over further implications not meeting their mathematical models. the actual foundation has not even been attempted to touch.

You keep talking about libertarian fallacies. So how about not posting completely irrelevant statistics in the first place? You should know the methodological basis of misesian economics better, let alone even to get the idea that any one of those is even remotely similar to criterion not...

Problems with OP-s theory: it predicts that late game is more interesting than early or mid game. When in reality the opposite is true, with civ 4 at least.

Nope, that is specifically the point of that stream - that neither communism nor statism fills its criterion

The very fact that land is scarce is the reason why homesteading is necessary in the first place! The assumption of land homesteading being theft violates the universality principle, so cannot be a just rule(or if it doesnt - assumes equal ownership by everyone of everything, it is merely...

OP: you needn't worry about brining policy change through political method(and really, thats what the political discussion on this forum circles about). Most hardcore misesians / libertarians have abandoned this, from rothbard's post-neoliberal disappointment in the early 90ies onwards...

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a friend of mine tried the crack pretty good Advocating piracy violates site policy.