OA22: Libertarianism is Bad and You Should Feel Bad
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In this week's episode, we tackle the legal and philosophical issues underlying libertarianism. We take on such issues as : what is "property," why is it a right, and is it cognizable as a side-constraint against government action? At the end of the day, Andrew and Thomas render a definitive opinion on libertarianism as a political philosophy.
In our opening segment, we answer an anonymous listener question: what exactly is this 'jurisprudence' word that Andrew keeps throwing around?
And in our closing segment, "Breakin' Down the Law" returns as we delve a little deeper into something we discussed in OA19 -- what exactly is a pardon, anyway?
Show Notes & Links
- You can buy Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia on Amazon...
- ...but to be honest, his best work is the sadly out-of-print Socratic Puzzles (which contains the retraction referenced on the show).
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Comments
In fact I would like to hear an episode in which you explore all the various ZIP codes of La-La Land which are inhabited by Libertarians, I'm guessing you know a lot more of them than us!
Csaba Daday
2016-12-25 12:55:28 +0000 UTCsorry, hit return by accident. the two major issues are: a) people are terrible at choosing charities and they generally just donate to whoever asks them physically (activists on the street, say) or most creatively (ALS icebucket, anyone?). It absolutely makes sense to give to a Committee (aka the Evil Big Government) who will decide which hospitals need to be built, unswayed by marketing/emotional appeals (at least , in principle). b) people will give a lot less to charity than they pay taxes. People always have a warped sense of how much money they need and how much they can afford to give to charity. It plainly never will work. Anyone who claims that charity can replace taxes is living in La-La Land.
Csaba Daday
2016-12-25 12:53:54 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed this but I feel like it was too philosophical (not enough mention of roads/schools/etc as Elizabeth Warren often does) and not philosophical enough (your refutation in the end was just about ~5 minutes, most of the rest were background info to make it digestible - I would have enjoyed you pursuing the topic a bit more). Maybe grounds for a second episode? I feel like you touched on a lot of good points but everything only in tip of the iceberg fashion. I most like the idea that a big government exudes an aura of impartiality and should make people happy to give their money to it in taxes. Libertarians generally would retort that a low-tax environment would have a de facto privatized social security from charities. But that model suffers from at least two major issues:
Csaba Daday
2016-12-25 12:49:34 +0000 UTC
