Walter Block: Cheered at Paul Festival, booed at official Ron Paul rally

[Keith and stuff]

Thank you Shem for creating this thread. Walter was wrong, IMO. He should have talked about something other than increasing taxes to pay for babies... Maybe even something proliberty...

[idiom]

If a child has a natural birth and no one wants to adopt it, who pays?

This is the Roth-cap point. You have no right to life as such. Nobody has a moral obligation to keep an infant alive.

Block has a more interesting point that goes further. If you have a child and don't want it, you have a moral obligation (although the justification is weak) to advertise this and give the child to someone who wants it.

It is linked to his donut theory of property. If you have land in the middle of your property that you are not using you have the same moral obligation to advertise the lands availability.

This puts a spare infant on par with a spare acre in your back forty.

Its an extremely esoteric rothbardian position.

[Feeding the Abscess]

Thank you Shem for creating this thread. Walter was wrong, IMO. He should have talked about something other than increasing taxes to pay for babies... Maybe even something proliberty...

Haven't seen Walter's speech, but considering he's an anarcho-capitalist, I sincerely doubt he raised the idea of taxation to pay for his ideas.

[RonPaulMall]

A fan of Block on reason said the guy was trolling before the internet was even invented. Something like that. LOL...

So true and funny. But also the reason Walter is in the right. Being controversial, bombastic, and thought provoking is who Walter Block is. You don't go to a Walter Block speech expecting to be coddled to or fed some "feel good" tripe. If Walter changed his style just for this event he'd be cheating the audience. The people who misbehaved were immature and should be ashamed of themselves.

[S.Shorland]

pedophiles would pay

[Keith and stuff]

Haven't seen Walter's speech, but considering he's an anarcho-capitalist, I sincerely doubt he raised the idea of taxation to pay for his ideas.

Anarchists for tax increases. Does it sound good? The LP VP nominee from 1980, a Koch brother, just called for possible tax increases, why not a Mises guy jumping on the bandwagon?

[Feeding the Abscess]

Anarchists for tax increases. Does it sound good? The LP VP nominee from 1980, a Koch brother, just called for possible tax increases, why not a Mises guy jumping on the bandwagon?

You're going to need to provide video to prove he called for a tax increase.

[Keith and stuff]

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com...increases.html

[idiom]

pedophiles would pay

Oh man is that a can of worms for rothbardism.

[MarcusI]

The right way to handle the speech for the audience would be too remain silent and let him speak. Booing was utterly wrong. The booers were worse to the movement than Blocks unfitting speech.

Pretty sad that there was such a misunderstanding between Ron and him.