helmuth_hubener
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Dear Osan,
Other than a very tedious vocubularical point, you raise no objections to the substance of my opinion whatsoever. So we are in agreement?
As a note -- a very minor note -- I do not agree that aggression is the wrong word. I think it is a perfect word. It is the most perfect opposite of "defense", and thus conveys exacly what I want to convey. Consider "light" vs. "dark". Were I to use these terms, you could find an array of definitions of "dark" in the dictionary and thus object to its usage, saying "Note the timbre of the word 'dark', how it carries with it the connotation of danger, the unknown, evil, and even malevolence". I feel this is what you have done in your objection to the word "aggression". But regardless, we have a very easy solution: simply substitute "trespass" for it in all my previous posts, and if you are a consistent libertarian in what you define as trespass, it will still mean exactly the same thing to me, exactly what I want it to mean, and it will mean the exactly right thing for you too, and thus we will have an instance of perfect communication.
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Are there any further arguments to be made against, or for -- especially for -- the proposition that a man has a property right to his reputation, or perhaps that he has one in the content of everyone's communications?
Other than a very tedious vocubularical point, you raise no objections to the substance of my opinion whatsoever. So we are in agreement?
As a note -- a very minor note -- I do not agree that aggression is the wrong word. I think it is a perfect word. It is the most perfect opposite of "defense", and thus conveys exacly what I want to convey. Consider "light" vs. "dark". Were I to use these terms, you could find an array of definitions of "dark" in the dictionary and thus object to its usage, saying "Note the timbre of the word 'dark', how it carries with it the connotation of danger, the unknown, evil, and even malevolence". I feel this is what you have done in your objection to the word "aggression". But regardless, we have a very easy solution: simply substitute "trespass" for it in all my previous posts, and if you are a consistent libertarian in what you define as trespass, it will still mean exactly the same thing to me, exactly what I want it to mean, and it will mean the exactly right thing for you too, and thus we will have an instance of perfect communication.
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Are there any further arguments to be made against, or for -- especially for -- the proposition that a man has a property right to his reputation, or perhaps that he has one in the content of everyone's communications?
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