I have libertarian intuitions (I take Keep Your Identity Small to heart). I have spent quite a while thinking about policy and economics and I think I can discuss it fairly rationally.
Even if you can discuss policy rationally, lots of people have not invested the time into developing that skill. Moreover, it’s a much less useful skill than it seems like; coming up with correct answers in policy isn’t very useful because it’s very difficult to implement the implications of those correct answers (see here and here).
Also, I used to believe in libertarian Fundamental Rights. However, I came to the conclusion that ‘rights’ is purely rhetorical (used to move people’s emotions) or descriptive (descriptions of options that people generally have).
People can benefit psychologically or materially from themselves or others having certain kinds of options (e.g. ‘right to free speech’), but these not ‘fundamental’ in any important sense.
The way I came to this view is by thinking about ‘where do the definitions of rights come from?’.
I agree with this.
I have libertarian intuitions (I take Keep Your Identity Small to heart). I have spent quite a while thinking about policy and economics and I think I can discuss it fairly rationally.
Even if you can discuss policy rationally, lots of people have not invested the time into developing that skill. Moreover, it’s a much less useful skill than it seems like; coming up with correct answers in policy isn’t very useful because it’s very difficult to implement the implications of those correct answers (see here and here).
Also, I used to believe in libertarian Fundamental Rights. However, I came to the conclusion that ‘rights’ is purely rhetorical (used to move people’s emotions) or descriptive (descriptions of options that people generally have).
People can benefit psychologically or materially from themselves or others having certain kinds of options (e.g. ‘right to free speech’), but these not ‘fundamental’ in any important sense.
The way I came to this view is by thinking about ‘where do the definitions of rights come from?’.