'Arguments Libertarians shouldn't make' with David Friedman

A Special Lecture with David Friedman, the renowned American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist. Hosted by the Adam Smith Institute

[@anarchic_ramblings]

For anyone wondering Yes Minister! was a sitcom about the British civil service that ran in the 80's.

[@wh5254]

Very interesting

[@scotthunter8244]

Been looking forward to this

[@Evolutionary-Capitalist]

9:52 value is not subjective

[@Altoseb]

What is it then?

[@Evolutionary-Capitalist]

@@Altoseb value is objective and relative to the objective context. and value comes from evolution and the natural selection process and the existence game it forces us to play

[@Altoseb]

@@Evolutionary-Capitalist a very quaint collection of words there. Not pretentious at all. Still not correct, but have a goldfish anyway.

[@teamrgvbodybuilding1772]

Yes it is

[@connorism69]

He is basically saying that what is subjective is objective because preferences and valuations really exist (in our brains, which are real) and result from deterministic processes (i.e., evolution)... Which is to say nothing at all because the claim that value is subjective does not contradict this.

[@raxneff]

Your arguments are pretty good, many of your examples pretty rediculess.

[@anarchic_ramblings]

It's called reductio ad absurdum and is a standard method in philosophy for exposing faulty premises.

[@AnarXian]

What a pity. I would have expected David Friedman to be better than to stoop to the level of peddling popular fake science fads.

[@Altoseb]

Fake science?

[@hebozhe]

​@@Altoseb"Fake science" is like "fake news", largely science that is not convenient to whatever worldview of his.

[@Altoseb]

@@hebozheFake science is that there is a 100% consensus on the cause of climate change.

[@connorism69]

Still lacking specifics, gentlemen.