Monthly Archives: December 2021

Note: Below is part three of my series of blog posts on the allocation of launch licenses by the FAA. Today, I write to propose legislation authorizing the FAA — or better yet, NASA — to allocate launch licenses using … Continue reading →

Note: As I mentioned in my previous post, I will resume my review of Nozick next week; in the meantime, below is part two of my series of blog posts on the allocation of launch licenses by the FAA. Are … Continue reading →

Notes: I will resume my review of Nozick next week; in the meantime, this new series of blog posts on the allocation of launch licenses by the FAA is just a short preview of my next work-in-progress. Currently, any private … Continue reading →

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Today (12 December) is the Feast Day of the Virgen of Guadalupe, a national holiday in Mexico and one of my favorite feast days of the year! More details here, in Spanish.

Just as I finished watching season 2 of Tiger King, which I loved by the way, I found in my mailbox copies of the Spring 2021 edition of the St Louis University Law Journal (volume 65, issue 3) as well … Continue reading →

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It’s time to wrap up our review of Chapter 5 of Anarchy, State, and Utopia (ASU). The last two subsections of Chapter 5 (pp. 113-119) are philosophical garbage disappointing. Why? Because Nozick concludes with two…

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To his credit, Nozick recognizes the reciprocal nature of the relationship between private protection agencies and independents in the sixth subsection of Chapter 5 (pp. 110-113). Specifically, if a protection agency decides to prohibit independents…

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Nozick appears to equivocate in the fifth subsection of Chapter 5 (pp. 108-110). He now claims that everyone has procedural rights (p. 108): “Everyone has the [natural] right to defend against procedures that are in…

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Do individuals have procedural rights in the state of nature? (Or conversely, do victims of harms or their allies have a moral duty to use only “fair and reliable” guilt-finding procedures before imposing any punishment…

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New year … same ol’ blog, so let’s continue with our review of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick identifies a major gap in natural law theory in the third subsection of Chapter 5 (pp. 96-101).…