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Originally Posted by u-Bob
You said you were a libertarian, a capitalist and a follower of the Chicago school, so I presume you are a follower of David Friedman.
Even if you base your position purely on utilitarian/consequentialist grounds and reject the notion of natural or rational rights, you still cannot condone benefiting from acts of aggression because doing so would reject the (100%voluntary exchanges vs some involuntary exchanges) cost-benefit-analysis that David Friedman's capitalist theory essentially is.
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First of all, David Friedman is not considered to be part of the Chicago school of thought
Second of all, you guys really do crack me up. And I really don't mean that in a rude way because you do seem like a nice guy. An old roommate of mine was a big Austrian and we used to have these conversations all the time. He was also a big Southpark fan!
Anyway, at least from my standpoint, it's really not imperative that either of you be able to understand realities about the world as they exist and to be able to differentiate between theory and practice.