Re: ExI: Announcing Extropy Institute's Transhumanist FAQ version 0.7

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Dec 31 2001 - 14:51:06 MST


> Basically, my viewpoint is that there are both rights and properties that
> are *intangible*. Our legal system very clearly recognizes this. Anyone
> with a passing interest or familiarity with the law must agree. Also,
> standard business doctrine and practices also recognize that there are
> *intangible* business assets. Anyone with a passing interest in business
> must agree.
>
> So, I ask, for *starters*, where is the "mainstream" libertarian recognition
> of the *intangible* aspects of property and rights?

How are we supposed to answer a question you can't even ask clearly?
Can you give us an example of what you're talking about, and how you
think libertarians and/or Extropians are ignoring it? I'm not mind
reader--spell it out for me. And if your can't, I suspect that says
something about the idea itself.

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Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
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