http://toddseavey.com/2009/01/01/debate-at-lolita-bar-is-intellectual-property-theft/ Conservatism for punks. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:39:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://toddseavey.com/2009/01/01/debate-at-lolita-bar-is-intellectual-property-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-27620 ToddSeavey.com » Blog Archive » Bailouts and the Undead Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:38:39 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2009/01/01/debate-at-lolita-bar-is-intellectual-property-theft/#comment-27620 [...] If property rights (though not necessarily intellectual property rights, for reasons we’ll discuss at tonight’s 8pm debate) allow resources to flow in an efficient, voluntary to their most-valued uses (as suggested in my Monday entry), while government causes resources to flow in an inefficient, coerced, and arbitrary fashion, we should constantly be on guard for legal changes that blur the line between the private (that is, private-property) sector and the public (that is, government-controlled) sector.  Every dime transferred from the private to the public sector is a tragedy, another opportunity for waste and lost opportunity — lost human happiness and potential. [...] [...] If property rights (though not necessarily intellectual property rights, for reasons we’ll discuss at tonight’s 8pm debate) allow resources to flow in an efficient, voluntary to their most-valued uses (as suggested in my Monday entry), while government causes resources to flow in an inefficient, coerced, and arbitrary fashion, we should constantly be on guard for legal changes that blur the line between the private (that is, private-property) sector and the public (that is, government-controlled) sector.  Every dime transferred from the private to the public sector is a tragedy, another opportunity for waste and lost opportunity — lost human happiness and potential. [...]

]]> http://toddseavey.com/2009/01/01/debate-at-lolita-bar-is-intellectual-property-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-27552 ToddSeavey.com » Blog Archive » Sleepwalking Toward Destruction Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:04:45 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2009/01/01/debate-at-lolita-bar-is-intellectual-property-theft/#comment-27552 [...] There was some controversy last month (perhaps not as exciting as our Debate at Lolita Bar tomorrow night, of course) over a new Washington, DC visitors center that heaps praise on federal government, complete with a big inscribed quote from nineteenth-century lawyer Rufus Choate that struck some religious conservatives as bordering on idolatry: “We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.” [...] [...] There was some controversy last month (perhaps not as exciting as our Debate at Lolita Bar tomorrow night, of course) over a new Washington, DC visitors center that heaps praise on federal government, complete with a big inscribed quote from nineteenth-century lawyer Rufus Choate that struck some religious conservatives as bordering on idolatry: “We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.” [...]

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