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Uploaded by on Apr 4, 2010

Some problems with Rothbard's argument against animal rights in "The Ethics of Liberty."

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  • ok, first of all Richard Dawkins is a moron statheist.

    Second of all, I'm a vegetarian, almost vegan and dont eat any animals or seafood.

    Your arugment I find illogical, you say babies aren't an arguments because they are potential adults. Well what else could they become? Yet you weave a tangled web with Richard Dawkins crappy metaphor, and talk about rothbards argument being flawed on potentiality? Rediculous lol!

    Anyways, love your channel and am subbing, mises ftw!

  • @Mastikator

    I should've clarified "mental construct"

    lol, i'm pretty sure you know what I meant since most people use it this way

  • @stealthswimmer What do you mean not objective just because it's a human construct? Cars are human constructs and they're pretty objective, right?

  • @Mastikator

    Not necessarily. You could simply just explicitly acknowledge that rights are human constructs. Thus they are not objective.

  • great vid. agreed that it wasn't Rothbard's strongest point and that his reasoning was uncharacteristically weak on animal rights.

  • have you read A Libertarian Replies to Tibor Machan's 'Why Animal Rights Don't Exist' by David Graham?

  • Exposing an argument as poor and disagreeing with it are two different things, it's our intellectual responsibility to understand this.

  • Agree 100% with Rothbard critique. Rothbard laid forth a complete nonsequitur.

  • Natural rights is species bound, so all members of a species will have the same rights. So the cut-off would be the ancestor that could not mate with current humans, provided that ancestor was not denied fertility.

  • Very well spoken, Austrolibertarian!

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