Comments on: Update 3: Nitwork Solutions Suspends Wilders Site https://barelyablog.com/nitwork-solutions-suspends-wilders-site/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Wladimir Kraus https://barelyablog.com/nitwork-solutions-suspends-wilders-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2702 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:32:24 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=581#comment-2702 Ilana,

There is definite logic behind the rather passive and uncritical position of certain libertarians on the problem in question. There are several aspects of the logic which, I believe, may help to explain their stance.

First, as you correctly observed, there is a gap between libertarian law and morality. In fact, libertarian law has nothing to do with the broader concept of morality; morality is deemed entirely a matter of individual subjective preference. The libertarian law is not derived from the analysis of moral and unmoral actions and choices (as it’s done in religions, social contract theories, and in Objectivism) but from the concepts of scarcity of goods and conflicting wants which in turn give rise to the need of the concept of property, the cornerstone of libertarian law. Hence the shocking disorientedness of libertarians when they are asked to evaluate issues that do not directly concern violations of property rights.

Second, they appear to have a peculiar picture of social reality: they tend to explain everything violent and evil in the world in terms of government failures, the government is the embodiment and ultimate perpetrator of evil. The common people if left alone will allegedly have all the “incentives” to SOMEHOW associate peacefully and trade and resolve interpersonal conflicts autonomously.

For these reasons I believe libertarian social theory is not in position to integrate important elements that determine social dynamics. Their passive position towards the threat coming from the ideology of violent Islam is a particularly relevant case in point.

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By: EN https://barelyablog.com/nitwork-solutions-suspends-wilders-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2682 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:26:44 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=581#comment-2682 He’s a man of tremendous courage. One can only hope to act as he has if circumstances dictate.

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By: Andrew T. https://barelyablog.com/nitwork-solutions-suspends-wilders-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2681 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:55:59 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=581#comment-2681 Europe is becoming a complete train-wreck of a politically correct nanny-state hellhole. I really hope that the liberal tradition of America’s common law can be salvaged (thank you, Ron Paul Revolution), partly to serve as an example to other nations as far as the tragic failure of what the EU countries are doing.

…but not now, it seems. Not when even the very currency that we use is becoming a laughingstock.

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