David Osterfeld on natural rights

[Amanojack]

@Brainpolice

Hoppe’s “argumentation ethics”, Kinsella’s “estoppel argument” and Molyneux’s “universally preferable behavior” all suffer from these same basic philosophical problems: the conflation of prescriptive statements with descriptive statements, the conflation of normative ethics with metaphysics, the conflation of acts of personal hypocrisy with logical contradictions and the conflation of falsifications with positive proofs.

I think you’ve hit the heart of the matter. If one reads such theories with a critical eye toward conflations and equivocations, the errors jump right out at you.