Foundations of Libertarian Ethics

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A legal system is an institution to provide dispute resolution through judicial, legislative and executive functions. The state is that which maintains in large part a monopoly over force, geography and the legal system.What’s wrong with a forcible monopoly? You are saying that you are the only one who has this right. Under anarchy there is equality of authority. No one has monopolies of force or jurisdiction. Dispute resolutions are referred to arbitration.  Anarchy is founded when one bypasses the state into voluntary system and the state withers away. The bypassing strategy [voluntaryists] seems superior, but has little history of success. The takeover strategy [agorists] seems inherently unjust because it is using the same power, like voting.The tenth and final lecture from the Foundations of Libertarian Ethics seminar with Roderick T. Long.

When can you respond to force? The four response positions range from “never” to “impose by force some further penalty on them”. A person’s capacity must be considered. Compensation instead of punishment is generally a libertarian society’s choice.Threatening to do something is not the same as doing it, but one cannot threaten violence against the innocent.For the most part, welfare recipients are not rights violators.The eighth of ten lectures from the Foundations of Libertarian Ethics seminar with Roderick T. Long.

Does libertarianism require widespread acceptance of certain cultural values? One end of the spectrum says yes [thick libertarianism]. The other end says libertarianism does not require any other set of values except the non-aggression principle – the right not to have force initiated against them [thin libertarianism].Long argues that the essential core of libertarianism is non-aggression, but that other elements can be part of libertarianism without being essential. An argument against thick libertarianism is that the liberty goal can lose out to helping the masses goal – a danger that one might focus on one thing and drop the other.The ninth of ten lectures from the Foundations of Libertarian Ethics seminar with Roderick T. Long.

Now we go from ethics to liberty. Justice, narrowly, is a legitimately enforceable claim. What is the consideration between justice, rights and utility? Justice seems more rule-oriented than rights. Libertarian rights theory can consider consequences.The sixth of ten lectures from the Foundations of Libertarian Ethics seminar with Roderick T. Long.

Economics deals with the preferences you are actually acting on. The judgment you are not acting on could still be around. So, action does not imply total judgment.If we had free will we could control our actions. We can choose our overall pattern of actions. You are not stuck with any particular pattern. The more often you do virtuous things, the easier it gets. By changing our action we change our tendencies. Habituation can get rid of things that are expressible through action, but it might not be the case that I can get rid of trembling or flinching (non-rational expressions).The third of ten lectures from the Foundations of Libertarian Ethics seminar with Roderick T. Long.