Other Flashcards
What is the point of Leonard Read’s “I, Pencil?”
Read notes the paradox that no one person in the supply chain knows everything that goes into creating a pencil, yet each person’s contribution results in an act of creativity.
According to Locke, what does the law ensure?
The law ensures that no person is subject to the arbitrary will of another and are free to do as they choose with their own person and property.
What is the philosophical method that libertrainism.com recommends?
This method consists of asking a person if she would consider it justifiable personally to compel, with threats of force, her peaceful neighbors to behave in a way she thinks they should behave, or to force her neighbors to contribute money to projects in which they have no interest or may even regard as immoral. Most people will answer “No” to questions like this; so long as our neighbors don’t violate anyone’s rights, they should be free to live their own lives as they see fit.
Name one law/regulation that doesn’t assume government is smarter and more moral than the people the law/regulation applies to.
Those that make the government smaller and/or less powerful.
Should the federal government (usually) be involved in responding to natural disasters? Why or why not? [edit]
Funding should be taken from the states and local governments. Because the disasters are typically isolated to just a state or a few states, and deciding to live where you want to live is a decision that involves understanding the natural risks of the locality/state. While it is ok for cities and states to collectively raise funds to prevent/mitigate natural disasters (if that is something the majority of the people/representatives want to do), it is not ok to force people who chose not to live in your area to cover the expanses of a natural disaster in your area.
A few specific resources, like the national guard, maybe be called in, because they serve as a repellent of force that can be equally provided to all states and localities and are thus funded nationally.
