Lev Lafayette wrote:
On Sat, April 11, 2015 12:47 pm, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Murray Rothbard (the founder of modern "libertarianism") believes that parents should be allowed to starve their children to death. More bullshit.
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Are yes ; political philosophy on luv-talk, none of this namby pamby comparison of theories , standpoints and values; good and evil are alive and well and truth will prevail !
He also supported selling of children, to generate a "flourishing free market in children". Still, he did hold their moral right to run away, and thus assert their independence.
In a later chapter of the same book he claimed that it was ethical for legal forces to torture criminal suspects... On which, if a crime is confirmed, they are exonerated. Which generates a very interesting motivational structure...
Where does he stand on on-the-spot-capital punishment for traffic infringements; with post-mortem infringements to be billed to the family ? regards Rohan McLeod