Ep. 460 Criticizing Molyneux on the Rules of War and Tucker on Libertarian Economists
Adam Haman returns to critically assess clips from Stefan Molyneux (on the morality of war) and Tucker Carlson (and the allegedly insidious role of libertarian economists in hurting Americans).
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About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
1:03:40 *quintuples
You guys, especially Hn strawmanned Molyneux. Too weird. Hn clearly dislikes Molyneux for other reasons – what are they? Molyneux did misspeak, perhaps, but he OBVIOUSLY wouldn’t support killing kids if better alternatives existed, wtf :|. And he OBVIOUSLY believes in objective morality, not relative to your opponent – that was an obvious simple mistake that could have been quickly cleared up if there was a willingness to understand :p.
By the way, Molyneux DOES actually support evil laws – he’d violently punish people who share pics “without consent” for example, can you guys PLEASE confront him about that actual error/immorality of his, instead of wasting time with these silly nothing-burgers :s.
Huh? He went on for several minutes, clearly saying the position that you say he OBVIOUSLY doesn’t hold. It wasn’t a slip of the tongue.
You kinda provided the steelman defense, for targeted bio-weapons in war. It’s similar to the debate about using nukes as deterrent-defense. In both cases the correct answer is probably that they’re evil, but it’s kinda grey, it doesn’t justify your guys’ shock and outrage, it’s a pretty common libertarian position.