Comments on: Statism Left, Right, and Center http://archive.mises.org/13823/statism-left-right-and-center/ Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Wed, 22 May 2013 12:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: thomas sabo http://archive.mises.org/13823/statism-left-right-and-center/comment-page-1/#comment-721872 thomas sabo Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:51:05 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=13823#comment-721872 You mean, nobody came? Nice pics.

]]> By: Virtue http://archive.mises.org/13823/statism-left-right-and-center/comment-page-1/#comment-721869 Virtue Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:39:47 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=13823#comment-721869 At least in my culture, the word “virtue” is not limited in its definition to only being an antonym of vice, but also an antonym of crime. In real-world usage, words are not limited to only one definition, but can have multiple meanings concurrently.

]]> By: huh http://archive.mises.org/13823/statism-left-right-and-center/comment-page-1/#comment-721518 huh Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:42:50 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=13823#comment-721518 Reading about “virtue” in the essay reminded me of this conundrum.

Lysander Spooner says:
“Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.
Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.”

If virtue is an antonym of vice, then are criminal acts which do not harm either one’s own self or one’s own property to be considered as virtuous acts? I think not, and thus virtue is likely not an antonym for vice.

So what then is virtue? How is it to be defined? Acts which harm nobody and no one’s property? What does it even mean to harm someone’s property? Harm according to whom, dear methodological individualism?

]]> By: RTB http://archive.mises.org/13823/statism-left-right-and-center/comment-page-1/#comment-721483 RTB Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:37:57 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=13823#comment-721483 Free markets are not people. They are only an absence of government interference. People have hearts and are free to help those in need. Free people voluntarily helping those in need are far better than slaves paying tribute to a State which only wastes their money.

]]> By: John P. Cunnane http://archive.mises.org/13823/statism-left-right-and-center/comment-page-1/#comment-721445 John P. Cunnane Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:30:59 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=13823#comment-721445 Perhaps, but the column is about the hypocrisy of those that believe that you can have cultural freedom without economic freedom, or economic freedom without cultural freedom. Neither free markets nor liberty have “hearts”. This is why classical liberalism does not appeal to the majority of Americans. Many Americans want to impose their concept of morality (virtue) on their neighbors through government (coercion) .

]]> By: Logan http://archive.mises.org/13823/statism-left-right-and-center/comment-page-1/#comment-721366 Logan Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:23:17 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=13823#comment-721366 I love Rothbard, but he seems to have an obsessive dislike of Buckley.

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