Libertarian ethics

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@I. Ryan

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SL and I are struggling to reach an understanding about this in another thread.

Which one?

Is This Principled Libertarianism (Walter Block on Child Abuse)?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block167.html From my own judgment, Walter Block never satisfactorily addresses Michael Fleischer’s argument: if a person, according to the principled libertarians, is sovereign in his own home and can raise his child as he sees fit, then how could private police agencies interfere? Child abuse, I believe, is one of the weakest points of the anarcho-capitalist argument: Fleischer is right to emphasize, in a utilitarian fashion, that such abuse could very well b…

It’s a lot of mindless back and forth over definitions and who gets to own David Friedman’s intellectual legacy , but I could use some backup wrt to the difference between a moral subjectivist and a moral nihilist.