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 infringement by others. This is a negativistic...
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Filed under: Ethics, Discrimination, Altruism, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Libertarianism, Philosophy
I'd like to state upfront that I am not an egalitarian, which is to say that I am fully aware of the fact that people are inherently unequal with respect to their mental and physical capabilities as individuals, and I despise the politically correct way in which racial questions are often treated...
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Filed under: Racism, Determinism, Polylogism, Collectivism, Discrimination, Separatism, Philosophy