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On Amoralist Anarchism: I've been a part of numerous online social networks or general social groups online that contains some amoralist anarchists, who either are former libertarian anarchists who have come to reject libertarianism or they are anarchists who rejected libertarianism...
Posted Thu, Jan 22 2009 by Brainpolice | 7 comment(s)
Filed under: Anarchism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Natural Rights, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Stefan Molyneux

Putting The NAP In Its Proper Context: I contend that the non-aggression principle is not a contextless axoim and it requires a specific definition of the difference between genuine self-defense and the initiation of violence. There is a grave problem that thin libertarianism and plumb-line...
Posted Sun, Jan 18 2009 by Brainpolice | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: Objectivism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Vulgar Libertarianism

Revising Self-ownership: In various articles in the past I have made a monist objection to a dualistic concept of self-ownership due to the problems that an absolute mind/body dichotomy leads to. To summarize the problem: who exactly is it that is doing the owning? If I own it...
Posted Thu, Jan 8 2009 by Brainpolice | 473 comment(s)
Filed under: Ethics, Personal Freedom, Individual Sovereignty, Libertarianism, Philosophy

Is self-ownership a misnomer?: If something is owned, then by definition there is something external to it that is doing the owning. Likewise, something that is owned is by definition something external to the agent that owns it. Taking this very basic point into account, does it really...
Posted Tue, Sep 16 2008 by Brainpolice | 10 comment(s)
Filed under: Objectivism, Ethics, Rational Egoism, Individual Sovereignty, Natural Rights, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Human Nature

Judeo-Christian Morality vs. The Free Society: I'd like to explain why I think that traditional judeo-christian morality does not synch up very well with the principles of liberty and does not provide a beneficial cultural framework for a free society. In many ways, I'm not going to be saying...
Posted Sat, Jun 21 2008 by Brainpolice | 10 comment(s)
Filed under: Objectivism, Ethics, Self-interest, Rational Egoism, Altruism, Religion, Atheism, Libertarianism, Philosophy

Liberty as a Lack of Unchosen Positive Obligations: And a lack of a gaurantee of survival and flourishing There are two fundamental ways in which liberty and rights can be defined. One definition of liberty is the freedom to use one's faculties in order to persue one's rational self-interest without...
Posted Wed, Jan 23 2008 by Brainpolice | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Ethics, Discrimination, Altruism, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Libertarianism, Philosophy