Comments on: Cato Institute Publishes Leftist Screed!, Pars Quarta

By: Administrator

Administrator — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:12:11 +0000

Mike — thanks for reminding me.

By: Black Bloke

Black Bloke — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:53:45 +0000

I remembered this interesting piece from Robert Murphy about quarantines that suddenly seems relevant:

How the Free Market Would Handle Quarantines
http://mises.org/story/2635

By: Michael Wiebe

Michael Wiebe — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:43:28 +0000

Good response to the Walter/Huebert piece.

Their article was very bizarre.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:57:30 +0000

You did.

http://praxeology.net/blog/2007/03/02/isolation-as-self-defense/

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:52:22 +0000

Have you written anywhere about the rights of people with contagious diseases?

I can’t recall whether I have. But I suppose the short version would be a) people do have the right to defend themselves against innocent threats, but b) the defense must not be disproportionate to the severity of the threat (where severity includes both badness of outcome and likelihood of outcome).

How to apply that test in any specific case? Easy, just ask the phronimos.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:41:04 +0000

Charles also has a post on (inter alia) Yglesias.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:53:12 +0000

Actually some of the people in that thread made some vague references to typhoid and disease. Have you written anywhere about the rights of people with contagious diseases? (A man was briefly imprisoned a few years ago for having antibiotic-resistant TB I believe.)

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:02:49 +0000

We can’t have people transporting raw milk across state lines for immoral purposes. Otherwise there would be anarchy.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:00:15 +0000

Speaking of state barriers to small business, check this out:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3017870

Apparently selling raw milk or transporting it across state lines for selling is illegal in half the 50 states!