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Protecting Others' Rights
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:53 PM

So here's the basic idea: It seems like there's a difference between coming to someone's aid when they're asking you to, and coming to someone's aid when you determine on your own that they're being treated wrongly. This difference, I think, is extremely important, and might open the door to an understanding of the libertarian position... Read More...

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On Subjective Valuation and Intrinsic Value
Sunday, August 10, 2008 1:00 PM

Some more on this never-ending debate... In ascribing value to certain things, we acknowledge that they matter to us -- they have weight in our calculations about what we should do. But it seems to me that there are two (not mutually exclusive) ways in which we do this. The first is the way that we mean when we talk about matters of "taste." When we... Read More...

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The Subjectivity of Value
Friday, March 14, 2008 4:47 PM

[Cross-posted on the parent blog ] For some reason, the past few weeks have found me embroiled in more debates about value theory than I can remember in the past year. Accordingly, I figured I'd post something on the subject as a starting point for those debates, so that I don't have to repeat my entire view in every conversation. The problems people... Read More...

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Does Intrinsic Value in Nonconscious Objects Create Problems for Property Rights?
Sunday, March 02, 2008 2:51 PM

[Cross-posted on the parent blog ] So I wrote earlier about the idea of nonconscious objects having intrinsic value, and I was wondering about the implications of what I said for our normal conceptions regarding property rights. Basically, I argued that some objects, like the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls, have the inherent capacity to inspire significant reactions... Read More...

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Filed under: Justice, Property Rights, Appropriation and Environmentalism, Intrinsic Value, Opportunity