Re: Need recommendations: bad historical romances

On 03 Jan 2006 09:45:00 +0200, Kai Henningsen
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rec.arts.sf.composition:

> ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Friedman) wrote on
> 02.01.06 in <ddfr-1D32A7.08490502012006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> com>:

>> Part of my reason for putting the question is that the "it's the
>> robber's fault--tough luck if it he is killed" intuition depends on a
>> fairly strong intuition that you really own your property,

> That seems nonsensical - I certainly share that intuition, but disagree
> strongly on the conclusion.

Let A be the intuition that you really own your own
property, and let B be the intuition that it's the robber's
fault, so tough luck if he's killed. David's claim, at
least as stated here, is merely that A implies B, not that B
implies A. Your belief that B doesn't imply A is therefore
not incompatible with his claim.

>> hence taking
>> it from you by force is a serious violation of your rights.

> Yes, so?

> "Strong violation of (some) rights" does not justify killing.

David didn't say that it does. Again, he's not claiming
that B implies A; he's saying only that you can't get A
*without* B, i.e., that A implies B. I quite agree with you
that in order to get from B to A, you need some additional
premise, but that's not inconsistent with David's claim.

[...]

Brian
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