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Re: Huh?

BradTaylor — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:34:52 -0000

There are so many good arguments against the Christian worldview, why make such a bad one?

Re: This Argument Needs Cognitive Enhancement

BradTaylor — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:39:23 -0000

I don't see how Mackie's argument rests on any strict empiricism. It should convince any ontological naturalist, regardless of their epistemology. I haven't studied the queerness argument in a long while, maybe I'm missing something.

Re: Can competing protection agencies prevent rape?

BradTaylor — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:58:25 -0000

If a single provider for a region proved more efficient than many, that is what is likely to emerge in a market for law. A free market defines the conditions under which an outcome emerges, not the outcome itself. Of course, the market power of protection agencies if such a situation emerged would reduce welfare below the ideal case.

Markets also provide incentives to solve market failures. The coordination problem doesn't seem beyond the capacity of interfirm contracting to solve...

Re: Small and/or Limited Government: Some Distinctions

BradTaylor — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:10:34 -0000

Very smartifying.

I think you need to be careful, though, in considering exactly how minarchists are giving away the game. I too worry that an appropriate level of government will mutate into excessive government. The minimal state might not be stable, but this has nothing to do with political philosophy: it's not the public goods justification of the minimal state that produces a slippery slope leading to statism as we know it, but the logic of politics (public choice problems, expressive voting, etc). For mine, the justifiability and stability of any level of government are completely independent.