If someone wants to argue for libertarianism versus status quo on consequentialist and empirical grounds, it stands to reason they should have some idea about status quo, what a person writing in 1869 couldn’t possibly have without breaking causality.
I’m not saying Mill doesn’t make good deontologist arguments, as these can be timeless, I’m simply not interested in deontology here.
If someone wants to argue for libertarianism versus status quo on consequentialist and empirical grounds, it stands to reason they should have some idea about status quo, what a person writing in 1869 couldn’t possibly have without breaking causality.
I’m not saying Mill doesn’t make good deontologist arguments, as these can be timeless, I’m simply not interested in deontology here.
You seem to have missed the part where thomblake claims J. S. Mills more-or-less originated consequentialism.
Seriously, asking for a reference on LW, getting one, and dismissing it without even flipping through it? Lame.
ETA: My bad—you did not ask for the reference. I am lame.
Wasn’t it ciphergoth who asked, not taw?