Spoken Like A True Economist
Matt Rognlie gets his vulcan on:
To sum up: murder to increase the general wealth is wrong not because there is any compelling first-order moral principle against it, but because in the real world of institutional design, granting a person or group of people the right to use murder is inescapably a prescription for tyranny.
True enough, but I found that these type of arguments are only convincing to people in academia.
Haha — so true. I cannot imagine any normal person approving of my argument.
Matt Rognlie
August 30, 2008 at 1:16 pm