Virgo Avalytikh

Well, thanks for the honesty.

It's not a matter of appealing to authority. It's simply a matter of sending you ad fontes so as not to multiply material unnecessarily. Why do you ne...

Maybe you're just accustomed to having things your own way, I don't know. But it's not unreasonable to expect some give-and-take here. There is plenty...

I was in two minds as to whether to respond to this. The subject of the thread is market failure, and its significance vis-à-vis libertarianism and th...

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That's fine. As I said, stay tuned.

I just assumed you were asking me in good faith. If you have prejudged it as incurable then there's scarcely any sense in having a discussion, is ther...

These are important problems (though, it is rather question-begging to prejudge them as 'incurable'), but, since they take us far afield from the topi...

Thanks for this. You note quite rightly that I justify a presumption in favour of liberty only very briefly. The primary reason is that it is not the ...

Thanks for this. So in Aristotelian logic, 'All people are dinosaurs' does have existential import? Or is it just ambiguous? So, I agree with the cons...

I don't think it's the same person.

I don't know, I don't read the New York Times.

It's strange, Ayn Rand seems to be a household name in the USA. In the academic literature, she is hardly influential at all. As is often the way. I h...

Of that, I have no doubt. May I ask which right-libertarians you have read?

? I'm not being a bitch about anything. I'm just pointing out that for me to say 'Socialism is morally bankrupt' is the easy part. Justifying it is th...

Well, 'morally bankrupt' is quite a serious charge if you don't have anything with which to back it up. 'I wrote a book but then deleted it' isn't too...

Great, can I see the book?

Where have you outlined your views?

Wow. Talk about pulling a Chomsky.

Understandable. Coercion always looks attractive when the 'good guys' are doing the coercing. The problem is that coercion is always a predatory activ...

Anti-Statist and indifferent about it.

Haha, fair enough.

You sound like you'd be fun to debate.

May I ask (as a non-logician and a non-native speaker of English) why this does not commit the existential fallacy? I agree that A, B and D do not fol...

No, I think I am making largely the same critique of both, but the problem is more pronounced with Chomsky. The writings of many of Chomsky's syndical...

Of course, it is not a trivial undertaking if he is right, but whether he is right remains to be seen. It's not unreasonable to hold him to the same s...

I don't know, it seems a little cheap to me. Critiquing the status quo - even voluminously or insightfully - is a relatively trivial undertaking. Just...