tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post4644951841968682603..comments2024-03-27T20:51:11.303-04:00Comments on Accepting Ignorance: Blogger is Experimenting on Their Live ServersAlrenoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-68522753446766059222009-07-26T05:46:11.756-04:002009-07-26T05:46:11.756-04:00No objection to my main points. Sweet.No objection to my main points. Sweet.Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-7542366068622643852009-07-24T22:37:06.854-04:002009-07-24T22:37:06.854-04:00I'm not going to argue here over whether there...I'm not going to argue here over whether there are any rights in anything other than the positive sense, since you can just read <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/10/24/la-rollins-case-against-natural-rights/" rel="nofollow">the book</a>. You do seem to be open to explicit consent-based contractarianism, which avoids the whole issue.<br /><br /><i>Well, constitutions don't guarantee anything in any practical sense. Case closed.</i><br /><a href="http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/08/how_constitutio.html" rel="nofollow">Yes, they do</a>.<br /><br />"Modern democracy" is a different standard than merely democracy. Benjamin Constant famously wrote of the ancients vs the moderns, and while the ancients may have had democracy that did not guarantee individual rights. So I don't think much of Wikipedia's definition.<br /><br /><br /><i>Do you get to tell me I cannot fire you?</i><br />Did We the Sheeple vote on whether or not you could? A democracy could vote to abolish democracy. Or it could vote that they always have the power to remove their steward. That's logically possible and not a contradiction.<br /><br /><i>Telling yourself what to do is even more absurd than hiring someone to tell you what to do.</i><br />No, if "yourself" is a group it could potentially solve collective action problems. In practice I agree with Bryan Caplan that it introduces negative externalities.<br /><br /><i>Democracy is the ultimate in disenfranchisement.</i><br />No, you said the minority was disenfranchised. The ultimate in disenfranchisement would be disenfranchising the majority.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.com