Group: humanities.philosophy.objectivism
From: Charles Bell
Date: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Six year Gallop poll on Muslim views of the west - in other news Peikoff/Brooke are FOS

On Mar 17, 10:41 am, Gordon Sollars wrote:
> In article > @u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, ilou...@hotmail.com says...
>
> > On Mar 16, 7:26 pm, Gordon Sollars wrote:
>
> > > I find it amusing that you and Charles Bell have the same legal
> > > philosophy.
>
> > "the same" is a bit of a stretch :)
>
> >    It seems sensible to suggest that were the law defined by something
> > other than force then people could disregard or interpret it as they
> > wished.
>
> As I said, the same a Charles.   You are both legal positivists - to
> you, the sovereign power is legislatively omnipotent.

No I'm not a "legal postivist" (to the extent you or tweedledum, Agent
Cooper, have ever defined the term ), and, no, I don't hold to
whatever nonsense you concoct in the last part of your asserion. The
individual is the final arbiter of everything in my book, but
certainly in not your book.


> I conjecture that
> you share an authoritarian epistemology with him as well


An intellectually farcical slob like you puts faith in duty where
neither faith nor duty need exist.

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