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His father having some level of involvement in FTX is indisputable, as he was a consultant to FTX. His mother's PAC also received a significant amount of fundi

by nullc 3y ago

His father having some level of involvement in FTX is indisputable, as he was a consultant to FTX. His mother's PAC also received a significant amount of funding from it, which certainly raises questions. As far as nature vs nurture, consider this navel gazing 2013 essay by his mother ( https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blame-moral-responsibility-philosophy-law/ https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blam... ) essentially arguing that criminal culpability is impossible because free will doesn't exist.

samstave 3y ago
>>*arguing that criminal culpability is impossible because free will doesn't exist.* OK - WTF? - There is a lot of discussion about 'free will' - however, thats around predestination, blah blah - But to state that '*criminality*' doesnt exist DUE to predetermination is psycho bot BS. Some people more educated in philosophy or logic or whatever that I may be --- EXPLAIN THIS??
- nullc 3y ago
  To paraphrase the old TV commercials. "This is your mind on postmodern thinking. Any questions?" Just like mate selection in peacocks created elaborate pointless plumage, competition among scholars in fields with inadequate connection to reality allow divergence off into absurd lines of thought which have their own elegant internal consistency but no external purpose. They could just be considered art or entertainment, except for the risk of causing grave harm when someone mistakenly uses them to justify policy without evaluating their consistency with reality or legible human values. See also the recent HN thread on kritiks in high school debate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920566
simple-thoughts 3y ago
Interesting that the article misscharacterized Nozick as right wing, completely missing the history of rejection of libertarians by both right and left parties and the continued outreach by libertarians to both.
- samstave 3y ago
  I don't know enough about this to even comment... Is it of value for you to link to something important? Lacking information on this. Thanks
  - simple-thoughts 3y ago
    A good place to start would be with this text on Rothbard’s leftism, which connects ideas you may already familiar regarding libertarianism with leftism: https://cdn.mises.org/19_1_2.pdf https://cdn.mises.org/19_1_2.pdf However the roots go much deeper. Nozick himself was advancing the progressive tradition. One way to understand it is to start by considering how the state was the tool leftist had used through the 19th century to advance individual human rights. Once the state had become totalizing in the way all modern capitalist countries are today, the only way forward to advance human rights further must involve the dissolution of the state since oppression is no longer caused by traditional social mores but rather by the system that replaced those. That’s why you often see weird alliances between rightists and libertarians: the few remnants of reactionary resistance against the state allied with what is at core a radical progressive movement. Leftists are a more natural ally with libertarians but cannot support libertarians as leftist power flows from state authority. There’s also a more specific history of libertarian plus leftist conference and other collaborations but I’m not knowledgeable on the details, merely that the info is there if you search for it.
    - FabHK 3y ago
      While Nozick was not traditionally right-wing, he was arguing for a pretty minimal state that’s not compatible with left, liberal, progressive ideas.
      - simple-thoughts 3y ago
        Minimal state is absolutely compatible with leftist philosophy! Anarchism itself is a leftist movement. What’s incompatible isn’t ideology, its praxis. Mainstream leftist movements rely on state power to further their goals. That said there’s still a ton of great leftist movements today that attempt to sidestep statism.

by nullc 3y ago

samstave 3y ago

>>*arguing that criminal culpability is impossible because free will doesn't exist.* OK - WTF? - There is a lot of discussion about 'free will' - however, thats around predestination, blah blah - But to state that '*criminality*' doesnt exist DUE to predetermination is psycho bot BS. Some people more educated in philosophy or logic or whatever that I may be --- EXPLAIN THIS??

nullc 3y ago
To paraphrase the old TV commercials. "This is your mind on postmodern thinking. Any questions?" Just like mate selection in peacocks created elaborate pointless plumage, competition among scholars in fields with inadequate connection to reality allow divergence off into absurd lines of thought which have their own elegant internal consistency but no external purpose. They could just be considered art or entertainment, except for the risk of causing grave harm when someone mistakenly uses them to justify policy without evaluating their consistency with reality or legible human values. See also the recent HN thread on kritiks in high school debate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920566

simple-thoughts 3y ago

Interesting that the article misscharacterized Nozick as right wing, completely missing the history of rejection of libertarians by both right and left parties and the continued outreach by libertarians to both.

samstave 3y ago
I don't know enough about this to even comment... Is it of value for you to link to something important? Lacking information on this. Thanks
- simple-thoughts 3y ago
  A good place to start would be with this text on Rothbard’s leftism, which connects ideas you may already familiar regarding libertarianism with leftism: https://cdn.mises.org/19_1_2.pdf https://cdn.mises.org/19_1_2.pdf However the roots go much deeper. Nozick himself was advancing the progressive tradition. One way to understand it is to start by considering how the state was the tool leftist had used through the 19th century to advance individual human rights. Once the state had become totalizing in the way all modern capitalist countries are today, the only way forward to advance human rights further must involve the dissolution of the state since oppression is no longer caused by traditional social mores but rather by the system that replaced those. That’s why you often see weird alliances between rightists and libertarians: the few remnants of reactionary resistance against the state allied with what is at core a radical progressive movement. Leftists are a more natural ally with libertarians but cannot support libertarians as leftist power flows from state authority. There’s also a more specific history of libertarian plus leftist conference and other collaborations but I’m not knowledgeable on the details, merely that the info is there if you search for it.
  - FabHK 3y ago
    While Nozick was not traditionally right-wing, he was arguing for a pretty minimal state that’s not compatible with left, liberal, progressive ideas.
    - simple-thoughts 3y ago
      Minimal state is absolutely compatible with leftist philosophy! Anarchism itself is a leftist movement. What’s incompatible isn’t ideology, its praxis. Mainstream leftist movements rely on state power to further their goals. That said there’s still a ton of great leftist movements today that attempt to sidestep statism.