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Oxford Libertarian Society Blog: Easy False Superiority
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Please visit our website: oxlib.org.uk. This blog is no longer being updated. Wednesday, 29 September 2010. Like many people, I was an atheist before I was a Libertarian. Or, if atheism and libertarianism are the defaults that everyone implicitly accepts until they confuse themselves with theology or philosophy, I was a self-identified atheist before I self-identified as a Libertarian. Not arguing against strawmen. Then, they would offer a counter-argument; something straight out of Economics 101, or the.
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Oxford Libertarian Society Blog: Can classical liberals avoid gender trouble?
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Please visit our website: oxlib.org.uk. This blog is no longer being updated. Saturday, 10 July 2010. Can classical liberals avoid gender trouble? I’ve recently read Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble. Butler’s critique of biological naturalism. Butler holds the discourse of the biological sciences to be a product of this binary and solidified notion of embodied sex and, in turn, a site where the construction of sexuality is hidden behind a façade of nature. How does she argue this? By making something akin ...
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Oxford Libertarian Society Blog: Looking for Proof
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Please visit our website: oxlib.org.uk. This blog is no longer being updated. Saturday, 25 September 2010. Freedom's pretty great, huh? I’m pretty sure it is. Maybe I’ll go and look for some more evidence today; read some articles in economics journals or something. And then I’ll be even more sure that Libertarianism’s the best. Infact, the longer I study, the more confident I’ll be. If I knew all the arguments and all the facts, I’d be absolutely confident. Except that’s impossible. So you can’t g...
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Oxford Libertarian Society Blog: James Tyler - The Importance of traders and the evils of bankers
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Please visit our website: oxlib.org.uk. This blog is no longer being updated. Sunday, 18 July 2010. James Tyler - The Importance of traders and the evils of bankers. James Tyler gave the following talk to the society on 27th May 2010 at Christ Church. It is also available at the Cobden Centre. Trader: One whose business is trade or commerce. That is a fair question to ask. I contend that power always comes, ultimately, from Government. They hold the monopoly on power, they set the rules, and their ar...
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Oxford Libertarian Society Blog: Traditional Socialist Values
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Please visit our website: oxlib.org.uk. This blog is no longer being updated. Monday, 27 September 2010. Are Socialists Inherently Evil? If you can’t be bothered to read the rest of the article, I’ll just jump straight to the conclusion and tell you the answer is no. For the more intrepid reader. There’s a really great post by Eliezer Yudkowsky on the sorts of values Capitalists actually have, rather than Socialists would like them to have. How. 8220;grab all the money you can get”. We’re Libertari...
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Oxford Libertarian Society Blog: Getting Past the Words
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Please visit our website: oxlib.org.uk. This blog is no longer being updated. Saturday, 25 September 2010. Getting Past the Words. 8216;Libertarianism’ is just a word. Ideologies are not some kind of special, ontologically privileged thing. Rather, an ideology is just a strongly compacted set of beliefs about the world. Because libertarianism is just a word, you should be able to justify your beliefs without having to appeal to the word ‘libertarian’. You should be able to taboo. In which thousands of po...
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Oxford Libertarian Society Blog: Where the Theorem doesn't Apply
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Please visit our website: oxlib.org.uk. This blog is no longer being updated. Monday, 6 December 2010. Where the Theorem doesn't Apply. I was discussing free trade with a friend a while ago when he said something that struck me as a good example of easy false superiority. 8220;Comparative advantage only works between rationally self-interested individuals.”. It could also work between two altruists, but if they both knew each other to be perfect altruists it'd look exactly the same as division of labour,...