Is there such a thing as natural law? (General)

by clarity, Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 13:36 @ Joe Kelley

That is why your attempts to apologize for capitalism, or conservatism, or the religion of property (or the pricing scheme), or whatever accurate and universal measure measures what you are doing, is so apparent (from my view). Your measure, as you admit to measuring ambiguously, is measuring you, not a measure of the thing you are viewing – in many cases.

Right. I favor freedom. I also favor the accumulation of capital. I also favor that you control your own capital. I favor private property.

But that doesn't mean that you need to favor those things because, in the first place, we do not have the same fix on what they are or what they mean or what they entail. And in the second place, if we did have the same fix on them, you can still not favor them as I do.

You have your religion and I have mine. That is as it should be. That doesn't stop us from seeking possible objective grounds that are relatively unexplored such as Labyrinth's principle of mutuality or other principles explored by other anarchists.

That leaves me at panarchy. You do the best you can to choose your favored social and political life and I do the best I can to choose mine, each of us hopefully not imposing it on the other. But of course such a hope is not likely to eventuate in reality unless we understand it and believe that it's better for the two of us.