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  • Re: Tautological Proof of NAP?

    [quote user="banned"]I make the claim, People have a right to act . This claim is irrefutable since to attempt to disprove it assumes a right to act. If people have the right to act they have a right to controll their body in forming action, this is ownership.[/quote] That someone has a "right"...
    Posted to General (Forum) by Torsten on Tue, Jul 22 2008
  • Re: The Legitimacy of State Property; Am I Really Entitled to My Land?

    [quote user="Stranger"]The state doesn't have any property titles. A property title is granted by a third party.[/quote] A state - just as any legal person - can have property titles. And what about homesteading, that's not necessary granted by a third party. Do property titles have...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Torsten on Tue, Jul 1 2008
  • Re: The social contract.

    [quote user="Brainpolice"]No it does not. [/quote] No it does, or rather as I have written it may : "...Being of some nation etc. may imply certain duties, rights and norms as well..." [quote user="Brainpolice"]It only does if we assume a false premise, I.E. legitimacy....
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Torsten on Sat, May 31 2008
  • Re: The social contract.

    Perhaps one should first make sure we have consensus on what is used by social contract theory.[quote user="twistedbydsign99"] So I'm wondering what the best argument you guys feel, against the social contract theory, is? I suppose its just that entering into a contract without having to...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Torsten on Tue, May 27 2008
  • A tenate of Liberty

    this is a response to one of my more moderate friends in a private message. I thought it to be worthy of general publication, so here is a short excerpt. One of the main tenants of my philosophy is that we do not have positive rights but only negative rights. Not the right to have food, medicine or shelter...
    Posted to Attackdonkey (Weblog) by Attackdonkey on Sun, Mar 23 2008
  • Re: How Are Contractual Rights Enforced in Anarchism?

    [quote user="libertarian"]There are no "rights" under anarchy[/quote] ... Rights are a mental construct, even without anarchy. [quote user="libertarian"]They do whatever the subscriber wants them to do. Individuals would ultimately collaborate together and come up with peaceful...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Torsten on Wed, Jan 9 2008
  • NY Times: Don't trust the state to respect your privacy; use encryption

    Adam Liptak reveals the digital privacy we can expect from the state : While "one lonely voice" argued that “Electronic storage devices function as an extension of our own memory ...They are capable of storing our thoughts, ranging from the most whimsical to the most profound.” The consensus...
    Posted to Crypto-Autonomist (Weblog) by Autonomist0 on Mon, Jan 7 2008
  • Court ruling protects encryption keys as a Fifth Amendment right

    Good news for Americans: U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop across the Canadian border has a Fifth Amendment right not to turn over the passphrase to prosecutors. The Fifth Amendment protects the right to avoid self-incrimination...
    Posted to Crypto-Autonomist (Weblog) by Autonomist0 on Mon, Dec 17 2007
  • Re: The Slave Trade?

    [quote user="leonidia"] [quote user="gethky"]A criminal act is defined in law.[/quote] Yes.[quote user="gethky"]There was such a thing as unwritten common law way-back-when, but nowadays all laws are written [/quote]So what? Laws don't have to be written to be laws....
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by gethky on Wed, Dec 12 2007
  • Re: The Slave Trade?

    All right, here we go: 1. By merely releasing a slave without due process you run the risk of having the sherriff/bounty hunter return the slave and bill you for the bounty. 2. A criminal act is defined in law. There was such a thing as unwritten common law way back when, but nowadays all laws are written...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by gethky on Mon, Dec 10 2007
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