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RE: Self-Ownership: Demystifying Nebulous Misconceptions

in #philosophy7 years ago

Post Modernism is a funny thing. I debated someone a while back who was going around saying there is no objective morality. I tried to explain to him that he was taking words out of context and trying to apply some absolute standard makes words meaningless. When that didn't work I applied his same logic to the idea of objective reality, he then, unironically made a remark that I was a post-modernist, when all I was doing was using his same argumentation against him.

If you take any words out of context, of course you can disprove them, but then you just made the word useless and meaningless.

Like the word 'voluntary', they will tell you that nothing is voluntary, they will tell you that markets are not voluntary because people are forced to participate because they will starve, there fore it is not voluntary. But here they are trying to apply voluntary out of context. Voluntary has to do with human social interaction, that is it's context, it is not something that describes our relation to nature itself, that would be misuse of the word.

I read an article recently that tried to make an argument against freedom of speech, by doing effectively the same thing. Taking the meaning of it and taking it to an extreme high standard (that we can't have real free speech because of money and property rights) and because what he have doesn't meet that standard we need speech to be controlled.

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