I would like to make something like a survey for all of you, regarding certain issues that we’re not in complete agreement with. The idea is to make a short answer for each item (preferably, a ‘yes’ or ‘no’, as you agree or disagree). Here’s my try:
FYI, I use N/A to specify areas where I do not feel qualified to say whether I agree with it fully or not. It would help if the list included definitions to base one’s Yes or No on.
Anarchism: Yes. (Panarchism as consolation, if Anarchism doesn’t occur in my lifetime).
Praxeology: Undecided
Natural rights: Undecided (leaning ‘No’)
ABCT: N/A
Corporations: Yes (In favor of market alternatives to statist-corptocracy)
Death penalty: Maybe (self-defense may unavoidably result in the death of an aggressor, etc.)
Abortion: Indifferent
Democracy: No
Objectivism: No, on the whole (This & Post-Objectivism have proven educational, though)
Psycological egoism: Undecided
Ethical egoism: Undecided
100% FRB: Undecided (I would prefer competing banking systems)
I know that the idea of answering ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or something short is not the best (one can agree the ABCT explained by X, but not the Y interpretation, or one can favor corporations, but on certain industries/cases, etc), but the idea is to have an approach of the member’s opinions, and not writing an article for each of the points (in fact, each point is and certainly was discussed in other threads).
For “corporations” what I mean is if you like the corporation concept, as an independent entity and separated from its members.
For 100% FRB I mean 100% fractional reserve backing (or full reserve banking, or whatever you want to call it), such as Rothbard, Block and Hoppe are for. I didn’t ask for free-banking because I think everyone here is for free-banking.
My death penalty answer is No, but is not definitive. Maybe I’m not for death penalty as a state-backed policy, but don’t know how the free market would handle it.
Okay, that was confusing because I thought it might mean, “all FRB, all the time.” “100% fractional” seems a contradiction in terms. I’d suggest changing the OP to “100% reserve banking”, or “FRB is fraud”
