Okay, now you know. Btw, what's your position?
That there is such a thing as strategic interests, and that they sometimes trump other things. Like our long tradition of civil liberties and privacy.
Why not business interests, occasionally?
Do we really need to arm up the Taiwan Strait, right now?
I don't know, that's a question you need to answer - I don't even consider it.
Why should a natural right be subject to the business interest of a view or the interest of the government? What's the criteria? "Occasionally" seems awfully vague to me. And if some natural rights can be torpedoed by the "strategic interest" of the government, and the government itself defines what the "strategic interest" is, what would exactly stop the government from curbing natural rights all the time and not just occasionally (whatever "occasionally" is supposed to mean)?
I mean, why one's right to engage in commerce and not, say, your right to live in liberty?
I see what you're saying, it just doesn't seem very realistic.
More like theoretical.
Academic, if you will.
Oh in that case we don't need to worry about Mr. Buchanan's tyrannical suggestions. It's merely theoretical.
ps - your inability to answer the questions is, besides expected, quite telling. Your suggestion that a tyranny is an academic scenario just plain hilarious. I'd suggest, I don't know, this short article:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century
Last edited by mogrovejo; 02-04-2010 at 02:28 AM.
You were worried?
In the world you are talking about, there are no *valid* geostrategic interests. I would say the frequency of war between nations somewhat contradicts this thesis, but whatever.
Believe whatever happy horse gets you through the night.
I am. I believe, with Weaver, that ideas have consequences and the ideas defended by the likes of Buchanan worry me. That's beyond the point though - as long as nobody disputes the nature of those ideas, I don't have much to say.
Nope, you're wrong.
About what please? Can you be specific?
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