[Publius]

Rand ping. It’s about philosophy, and it’s a bit heavy to read.

[Billthedrill]

Thanks for the ping. The author's modeling is straightforward and reasonably congruent to what I know of the constituent pieces. His treatment of anarcho-capitalism is more on the Rothbard model than Tannehill mode, whose adherents tend to be skeptical of all statutory law and hence somewhat outside the author's model or at least at the far end of the continuum. There are a number of flavors of anarcho-capitalism and not all of them fit.

Nevertheless, mapping this model of the Golden Mean to ethics is wonderfully illustrative but subject to the same sort of objection. Rand's problem with Judaeo-Christian ethics was itself problematic: despite a visceral rejection of such concepts as Original Sin her actual applied ethics were not only reminiscent of, but impossible to divorce from, her own Jewish upbringing. Can you have that without God? Rand says "yes", the author says "no".

Fun stuff. It catches me at work and so I'll have to self-ping it for later.