The state is not a neutral observer. It will pass environmental legislation. It will regulate relations between races and sexes. It will put down this religion in order to raise that one up. In each case, the intervention only exacerbates conflicts, which in turn creates the impression that there really is an intractable conflict at work.
- Lew Rockwell
Philosopher Michael Huemer on the Problem of Political Authority
Joseph Stiglitz: Stupid or Sinister?
Anyone who denies that rights exist contradicts himself since, by his very engaging in the cooperative and conflict-free activity of argumentation, he necessarily recognizes the right of his listener to be free to listen, think, and decide. That is, any participant in discourse presupposes the non-aggression axiom, the libertarian view that one may not initiate force against others.
Thus, according to Hoppe, anyone who would ever deny the ethics underlying the free market is already, by his very engaging in the civilized activity of discourse, presupposing the very ethics that he is challenging. This is a powerful argument because, instead of seeking to persuade someone to accept a new position, it points out to him a position that he already maintains, a position that he necessarily maintains. Opponents of liberty undercut their own position as soon as they begin to state it.
- Stephan Kinsella
"People knee jerk and toss out “unknown unknowns” as a counterargument to any proposed change. This is not a valid, or an intellectually honest, response to anything. Everything has unknown unknowns. Doing nothing has unknown unknowns, doing a single conservative change has unknown unknowns, doing everything all at once has unknown unknowns. That’s the whole nature of that logical category of things, you don’t know what you don’t know."
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/a-denial-of-service-attack-on-consensus
Bitcoin Audible Chat _099 - Failure, Hope and the Purpose of Bitcoin with nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr
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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
- Wittgenstein
The Intellectual Humility of the Spontaneous Order
My latest from Mises
https://mises.org/mises-wire/intellectual-humility-spontaneous-order
Wise individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
― Socrates
