Libertarian Thread #2: We Shall Never Die!

THE BEER IS TOO DAMN HIGH

Hey guys, I found a cute girl that loves Hayek:

Things are going well here. There have been interesting developments. Now with you, the thread is complete (JLocke seems to have disappeared forever). As you will notice, too much asking got my head jump started...

A question: what is the though about intellectual right laws and inheritance? The thing is, let's say guy X invents something or writes a book. I assume we agree he should benefit for life for it? Unless he gives away his rights. But what if he dies? Should his heirs continue to benefit? When could this work/invention be in the public domain (IF there's such a thing)?

I've been starting to read Hayek now. I was considering the famous PA question which made Rob turn me into a slaverer. I'm ready to say I see things how they are now. I'll talk about that later on.

The T wrote: Things are going well here. There have been interesting developments. Now with you, the thread is complete (JLocke seems to have disappeared forever). As you will notice, too much asking got my head jump started... A question: what is the though about intellectual right laws and inheritance? The thing is, let's say guy X invents something or writes a book. I assume we agree he should benefit for life for it? Unless he gives away his rights. But what if he dies? Should his heirs continue to benefit? When could this work/invention be in the public domain (IF there's such a thing)? I've been starting to read Hayek now. I was considering the famous PA question which made Rob turn me into a slaverer. I'm ready to say I see things how they are now. I'll talk about that later on.

I'm new to the forums, but it's great to see that there are libertarians here.  Libertarians can be pretty marginalized...never expected to see so many in one place outside of an explicitly libertarian site.

It might, however, be charged that Smith does not have the right to print such a statement, because Jones has a “right to privacy” (his “human” right) which Smith does not have the right to violate. But is there really such a right to privacy? How can there be? How can there be a right to prevent Smith y force from disseminating knowledge which he possesses? Surely there can be no such right. Smith owns his own body and therefore has the property right to own the knowledge he has inside his head, including his knowledge about Jones. And therefore he has the corollary right to print and disseminate that knowledge. In short, as in the case of the “human right” to free speech, there is no such thing as a right to privacy except the right to protect one’s property from invasion. The only right “to privacy” is the right to protect one’s property from being invaded by someone else. In brief, no one has the right to burgle someone else’s home, or to wiretap someone’s phone lines. Wiretapping is properly a crime not because of some vague and woolly “invasion of a ‘right to privacy’,” but because it is an invasion of the property right of the person being wiretapped.

Ah, I never said confiscation of property was not justified by any other institution.  Indeed, government action can only be justifiable if the same action were justifiable for another institution/individual.

stonebeard wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: manofmystery wrote: Hey guys, I found a cute girl that loves Hayek: Cute is a stretch. I'd say bang-able is more realistic.  Maybe if she cut the glasses and got a different hair cut. Now she's beyond bookish.

 

Epignosis wrote: Hanyou wrote: I'm new to the forums, but it's great to see that there are libertarians here.  Libertarians can be pretty marginalized...never expected to see so many in one place outside of an explicitly libertarian site. Then again, this is the internet :P I am not sure if I am ready to wholeheartedly embrace libertarianism and all it means, but I am a minarchist.  I probably fall somewhere between Goldwater conservative and pure libertarian, but I value libertarian justifications more than conservative ones (which make no sense to me, to be honest).  The trouble I have is when libertarians argue that we have no natural right to privacy or that government should not enforce laws regarding privacy.  I know Rothbard made arguments like this, and, like many of his other arguments, I doubt I'll ever agree. So yeah.  I might be conservative, I might be libertarian, but I know I have deep respect for libertarian philosophy.  Agree with many of the premises, but not always the conclusions. I'm a conservative libertarian.  And welcome!  From where do you hail in NC?

Our number increases by the day!

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