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How I became a libertarian for etica and politica

5 Jun 2003

It is thus influenced by cultural input ; secondly, there exist two moral systems, that of the horde and that of the abstract society, and the first cannot replace the second without disastrous consequences; thirdly, the twin ideas of cultural evolution and spontaneous order, i.e. [...] The costs of a positive meta-decision (i.e., to consider the offer of the person), however huge, are the same in both cases. [...] Nonetheless, the costs of a negative meta-decision (i.e., to ignore the offer of the person) differ decisively. [...] Hence, under the above mentioned preconditions the difference between a case of coercion and a case of free choice is in the artificial costs which are to be expected in case of a negative meta- decision. [...] This is exactly the type of costs I have in mind when talking of the costs of a negative decision at the meta- level in the case of coercion.
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