@als: “i already did. it makes at least one more pointless axiom than everyone else.”
This is just dodging the question. Even if Austrian social science “makes … one more … axiom than everyone else” [sic], that doesn’t make it false. Again, Occam’s Razor is not about seiving true from false theories on the silly idea that “the theory with the least assumptions must be true” but, rather, it is about selecting between two theories both of which explain the facts.
Clayton -
How ridiculous. Natural law dates back to the medieval Scholastics. The Austrian school arose during the 19th century. You need to work on your timeline.
Clayton -
They need to attack and discredit the concept of natural rights because it is the basis of libertarianism, and libertarianism is its natural consequence.
Ultimately, to deny natural rights is silly. Like all physical things, man has a nature he cannot escape. Rights derived from this nature are the only rational basis of deriving rights.
Ironically, the idea of man having a nature was attacked in the past as being somehow a religious concept. It is anything but.