DavidFriedman

Reply to On Morals in Ethics Stardock Forums

"My motive was not, BTW, to attack you personally, but rather to illustrate the paucity of discussion of this fundamental issue within the libertarian intellectual arena, and the general weakness of the arguments in play. Usually they follow the pattern of the objectivists who kicked you out of their gathering, of jumping from the social good to the individaul self-interest, leaving out any real connecting logic on the way. " I wasn't assuming any personal malice; my objection wa

Reply to On Morals in Ethics Stardock Forums

Thanks for your response. I do not see how you can believe that what you wrote about my article was consistent with the contents of the article. You wrote that, in that article, I: “tried to make the case that the extra mental processing required in concealing ones nature as a crook would offset any possible gains.” But in the article, I wrote: “The answer to this apparent paradox, as to similar problems in game theory and evolutio

Reply to On Morals in Ethics Stardock Forums

“Years later, possibly in deliberate response to that article,” As it happens, not. “economist David Friedman (Nobel laureate Milton Friedman’s son) wrote an article … in which he tried to make the case that the extra mental processing required in concealing ones nature as a crook would offset any possible gains.” The article is webbed at: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Virtue1.html<br /