A provocative title for a reasonable thesis:https://www.econlib.org/you-have-no-right-to-your-culture/ …
If people don't have a right to collective defense of their culture, why would they have a right to collective defense of their land, resources, property, capital, or anything else? Sounds like you're arguing for might-makes-right anarchy.
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Because culture is other people, so "cultural protection" is offense, not defense.
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Your arguments are usually strong and compelling, but I just don't get this one. Culture isn't just ideas, it's also norms, institutions, coordination devices, etc. The US Constitution is part of culture. Do we have no right to defend the Constitution?
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why does this slippery slope argument make sense? What is the connection between one right and the others listed?
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Because a culture is a set of ideas. Saying a group of people don't have a right to their culture is like telling individuals they can't have their ideas. When has that kind of thinking ever not led to a bad slippery slope.
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This is a little disingenuous. The argument goes from "cultures evolve over time" and "we should compete in the marketplace of ideas" to "we should be free to stack the deck in favour of cultural changes we like, but you should not be".pic.twitter.com/Jq0pPrPcpt
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If cultures used marketplaces this would be reasonable. But I believe he's saying they don't. That there are "cultures" that don't allow you to choose, are highly competitive, and are possibly intolerant of "marketplaces".
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Um.. did you actually read the article? Bryan is making the obvious argument that culture is voluntary and if you want "your" culture to survive it has to convince people in the cultural marketplace to follow it. This is not "might-makes-right". Its "your-choice-makes-right"
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There are no positive natural rights, because such can't just be plucked from the air. You have free speech, right to property a.s.f. because it's what *works*. Mass immigration, cultural subsumation and relativist bulldozing *doesn't* work. By the numbers. Ergo...
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Rivalrous vs. non-rivalrous goods.
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