What in that conversation indicates that I reject the NAP in its normal formulation?
I stated that the NAP is not the foundation of libertarianism. I did not say I reject the NAP.
For anyone who cares, Minarchist claims to subscribe to the NAP, but he does not subscribe to the standard version as stated by Rothbard or Block.
That is false, I subscribe to the normal formulation of the NAP. I do differ with Rothbard on the question of inalienability, as does Block.
He has his own principle that he also calls the NAP. It’s the same with aggression and other terms.
Is it? Why don’t you tell me what I call the NAP? And what I call aggression? I use both those terms in the same way as you and everyone else.
I have numerous times demonstrated how one can reason to these other principles from the golden rule.
No, you have not. You have argued that all libertarian ethics has its historical roots in the ethic of reciprocity, but as Graham pointed out above, the history of the ideas has nothing to do with their logical relationships to one another.
The fact of the matter is that you do not accept the golden rule as your premise. But that doesn’t change the fact that estoppel, for example, comes from the ethic of reciprocity. I mean, come on, its very history comes from the common law concept of equity, and it doesn’t get much more reciprocal than that.
Again, talk about the history of these ideas has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not one can derive the homesteading principle from the NAP.
So, you’ve gotten me to respond to you again, but fortunately I haven’t actually engaged you in any meaningful debate in this post, so your antics will only get you so far. I don’t believe you are acting honestly and until you convince me otherwise, I don’t think I’m going to think otherwise. You can either care or not care what I think. If you care what I think, then I guess you’ll have to convince me that you are behaving honestly. But if you don’t care, then naturally you will stop with this nonsense.
So when I ask you to substantiate your claim that it is possible to derive the homesteading principle from the NAP, I’m engaged in nonsensical, dishonest antics? Uh huh. And clearly the only sensible, honest and serious thing for you to do is to start making baseless and completely irrelevant claims about my views on the NAP et al, in an effort to paint me as a non-libertarian? Uh huh.