Understanding Liberty: Answering my Collectivist Critics

Started by Ex_Nihil0, January 28, 2010, 03:02:44 PM

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I made a video about three months ago critiqing a comment made by Aron Ra where he proclaims that rights come from people, which means that rights are arbitrary things based on subjective opinion, not an objective truth about human nature or the universe.  You can see this video here:

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Well, I got hammered by collectivists and statists, and those loyal to Aron Ra with mostly 1-Star ratings, even though my argument was sound.  Most of my critics said I was wrong because Aron Ra's statment was intuitively obvious.  Of course, we all know intuition isn't proof of anything, but that was largely the basis of the argument I was given.  It got to a point where I had to shut the comments down after three months because things were just getting way to hostile.  I find this kind of strange, because when I slammed Thunderf00t for his statism and criticism of Libertarians as "rabbid", I didn't get nearly this much backlash.  That really makes me wonder why.

After carefully understanding the arguments I was being given, I created a new response video that goes into detail about the foundational principles upon which objective Liberty and rights are based.  I borrow a lot from John Locke's "playbook" in my video.  With this rediscovered basis for Liberty, we can answer our critics with greater force and confidence. 

In the last half of my new video, I barrow a clip from one of MisterBusta's videos where he explains the consequences of believing rights originate from the collective and why the Libertarian principles upon which Liberty is based is actually a deontology.  If any of you haven't subscribed to MisterBusta's videos, you should.  Because, if you like Shane's videos, you'll probably like MisterBusta's videos, too.

Without further delay, this is my new video: [yt]ftd-AiOz_KI[/yt]

By the way, for those of you wanting a review on John Locke, the founding father of the Founding Fathers, take a look at this video:
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I think it really important for those in the Liberty Movement to get a strong grasp of where our ideas came from and why they work, because this will help use succeed in the long as we explain to our neighbors and coworkers why freedom is best for everybody.

My goal is to eventually find a way to incorporate Locke's political theories with Kant's Categorical Imperative so that I can nave a complete deontological moral theory. 

I almost forgot.  Please rate my videos 5-stars to offset the one-star ratings by the hoards of statists and collectivists running around.  It's almost as bad as being vote botted, only I'm being rated down for my having an unpopular opinion, not because my video is bad.  Both are forms of censorship, in my opinion.