Libertarian Discussion Forum Message Board

Sponsor

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (8813)	4/29/2012 1:26:50 PM
From: SocratesJohnson	of 9209

He didn't say that owning slaves was a natural right. He said that it's the natural order which, according to you, means that it's a natural right. Some of our founders assumed that property rights were natural rights and that slaves were property......They therefore thought that owning slaves was a natural right. 5 years ago I worked on an expert system based product that could give responses to typed or verbal questions that mimicked human responses. No computer would provide the sort of responses that I've gone in for. You worked with computers so you should know that. You have provided evidence, but it is not irrefutable. Actually it is irrefutable. If you can show that computers respond the way I do I'll retract that statement......Until then my assertion stands. yes, in many cases, not all I think I had specified that. I think I had said that "in many cases" absence of of evidence is, in fact, evidence of absence. If you don't have that as a working assumption you quickly get into trouble. How do you know that there isn't a natural right to own slaves?...........You don't really but there is no reason to think that such a right exists and a lot of reasons to think that it doesn't.