tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post9161461589683662760..comments2024-03-28T08:57:53.180+00:00Comments on Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: Might Makes RightLarry Arnharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-59526641649669726322012-12-13T16:27:17.589+00:002012-12-13T16:27:17.589+00:00" The problem, of course, is that the vigilan..." The problem, of course, is that the vigilantism of the state of nature easily collapses into perpetual feuding,..."<br /><br />I think if one looks at actual feud systems, this doesn't seem to be the case--they usually include some mechanism to terminate feuds. It's worth noting that the one famous American feud, between the Hatfields and McCoys, terminated with a total of four people dead--one killed in a fight that started the conflict, and the three responsible then killed by the first victim's kin. <br /><br />It was revived several years later by the government of the state the three were citizens of.<br /><br />On the general subject of where rights come from naturally, you might be interested in an old piece of mine which views them in terms of a mutually recognized pattern of commitment strategies:<br /><br />http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.html<br /><br /> David Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06543763515095867595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-77995900116982502022012-12-07T20:06:27.200+00:002012-12-07T20:06:27.200+00:00Also, I am delighted to hear there will be a new e...Also, I am delighted to hear there will be a new edition of POLITICAL QUESTIONS. This is a great little book, the best introduction to political philosophy I know of. Kent Guidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00119882444127499607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-86143316207553255722012-12-07T18:05:04.065+00:002012-12-07T18:05:04.065+00:00I think Aristotle supports the Arnhart position. T...I think Aristotle supports the Arnhart position. Those who are not prepared to resist exploitation or domination will not be or remain free, will be reduced to slavery and hence are in some sense natural slaves. Isn't that also the argument of the Declaration of Independence?Kent Guidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00119882444127499607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-28648153389666498502012-12-07T14:27:44.662+00:002012-12-07T14:27:44.662+00:00But it doesn't show that might makes right. I...But it doesn't show that might makes right. In fact, it shows that absolute opposite, that the slaves were right despite not having any might.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-31380124449481448512012-12-06T18:58:53.286+00:002012-12-06T18:58:53.286+00:00If there were happy slaves, who never expressed an...If there were happy slaves, who never expressed any resistance to their enslavement, wouldn't they be natural slaves?<br /><br />Wasn't this crucial for the paternalistic ideology of the slavemasters in the American South who argued that their slaves showed their natural adaptation to slavery in their happy submission? <br /><br />Wasn't it then crucial for the abolitionists to argue that this was false, because the slaves showed a natural resistance to their enslavement?<br /><br />Isn't slave rebellion the ultimate confirmation that slavery violates natural right?Larry Arnharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-86934429313393350082012-12-06T16:26:05.396+00:002012-12-06T16:26:05.396+00:00It doesn't seem to me that you're saying m...It doesn't seem to me that you're saying might makes right. It seems to me that what you're actually saying is that when those who resist domination rise up, it makes right, that resistance to domination makes right. If the domination was successful in setting up a 1984 style society that effectively made resistance impossible, would it be right? (P.S. don't play the trick of evading the question by denying its possibility.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-3702035902800901872012-12-06T06:44:27.090+00:002012-12-06T06:44:27.090+00:00I have a comment at my blog http://naturalrightan...I have a comment at my blog http://naturalrightandbiology.blogspot.com/2012/12/arnhart-hobbes-locke.html<br /><br />Ken Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09580209017016829598noreply@blogger.com