tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post1014125645503682324..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: Policy IS a Competitiongcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-71789975475821452692013-04-18T23:01:24.977-04:002013-04-18T23:01:24.977-04:00"Not that I'm much of a fan of NAP ...&qu..."Not that I'm much of a fan of NAP ..."<br /><br />Actually, I've found that you've been quite a big fan of the NAP. Almost all of your arguments favor it in some way, and you certainly wouldn't oblige aggression upon yourself or your own (or your nation). However, your real disparity with libertarian philosophy is with property rights. This is what you disregard, not the NAP, but it is actual property rights on which the libertarian conception of the NAP is based upon. <br /><br />It's strange that this only just occurred to me now, but you and Gene's attack on the NAP a few years ago was really a red herring. You don't necessarily disagree with the concept of non-aggression, rather you disagree upon the justification. For a libertarian, such justification lies in property rights. So it is clear to me that this is the subject of conflict, not the NAP. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-68611030485005421142013-04-18T11:27:02.835-04:002013-04-18T11:27:02.835-04:00re: "If we spend a billion dollars on new sec...re: <i>"If we spend a billion dollars on new security measures in response to the Boston attack, that is a billion dollars we are not spending on better inner-city schools, or discovering a cure for cancer."</i><br /><br />There you go again - confusing an accounting identity for a behavioral law!<br /><br />*joking*<br /><br />As I noted on facebook, I think you're wrong on this for an entirely different reason. The plant in Texas offers a good comparison because it's closer to the same numbers. Boston arguably matters a whole lot more, not because of the body count but because of the nature of the process that brought it about -deliberate violence rather than risk/randomness in a process that is on net good.<br /><br />Not that I'm much of a fan of NAP in the hands of most libertarians, but this would be like responding to a strict-NAP person by citing the number of people who die from smoking or heart attacks. We may care about those deaths, sure, but aggression is a different death-generating-process that deserves a different sort of consideration.<br /><br />Obviously I agree with your facebook post that none of this is cause to trample on rights.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17192667997950934790noreply@blogger.com