mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan) (01/19/85)
This is a re-posting; the original vanished mysteriously. Listen up, vulgar Libertarians: Torek is right-on-the-money when it comes to attempts to derive Libertarianism from ethical Relativism. If there is no absolute good, if right and wrong are purely subjective, then the Libertarian non-aggression principle (which is itself an ethical standard) is BY F***ING DEFINITION a purely subjective precept. Even more disgusted, DKMcK
mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan) (01/23/85)
>Since trying to logically derive ethics from objective truths has been >proven useless (see Hume), Oh no no no, Wayne; neither Hume nor anyone else has proven such attempts useless. Hume indicated the magnitude of the problem. > why not approach the problem from the >standpoint of which ethical views are the least "absolute" in nature. You can ask 'why not?', and Torek et alii can ask 'why?'; 'why not?' is a motivator only for those seeking an existential experience. >Probably universal toleration and libertarianism are the most >compatible with relativism, I fail to see how Libertarianism is more compatible with Relativism than are, say, Individualist Anarchism or Anarcho-Socialism. > Personally, I don't care if I'm not >absolutely consistent, Creeping Nihilism, Wayne, creeping Nihilism. Back to you, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan