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To: Okiegolddust
Good analysis. You have a valuable talent for seeing beneath the surface, rather than just responding to it.
24 posted on 02/06/2002 10:38:58 PM PST by x
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To: x;Okiegolddust;A.J.Armitage
This article is a hatchet job.

The author starts by claiming, as I pointed out, through an amazing series of rhetorical flourishes that because people are property this means that Adam Smith is fallacious. A total abuse of logic.

He finishes off by claiming that Hayek's The Fatal Conceit is somehow a repudiation of libertarianism provoked by his divorce. What nonsense.

In between, as AJ points out, he confuses Mises' theory of Subjective Value (worth) with the idea that values (ethics) are subjective. He then wonders why Mises' did not believe in Situational Ethics! There is no one more ethically consistent than libertarians, yet Fleming accuses them of being relativists. Is he really this stupid?

If you wish to defend this piece of crapola, you need to address the points that AJ and I brought up in our #3 and #4.

You may dispute Mises' and Hayek's contention that liberty and the marketplace support family and community while the state destroys them. Even if you are right, that has nothing to do with the points AJ and I brought up. And, BTW, it has been tried out. Throughout history.

25 posted on 02/07/2002 2:59:32 AM PST by Architect
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