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Source link: http://blog.mises.org/4273/vampires-vindicated/

Vampires Vindicated?

October 28, 2005 by

Francis Dumouchel employs Rothbardian logic to defend vampires–satire indeed.

{ 7 comments }

Paul B. October 28, 2005 at 8:16 pm

Great article! The Rothbardian/Vampire Schism has gone on for way too long. Now is the time for reconciliation.

Tracy Saboe October 28, 2005 at 9:43 pm

:)

That was great. Vampires and human’s certainly could coexist.

P.M.Lawrence October 29, 2005 at 12:00 am

That’s not satire, it’s a clear allegory for how parasites and higher animals are indeed supposed to co-evolve towards a sustainable pattern of interactions. Unfortunately the full area of study shows that there are other modes of stable interaction, depending on circumstances, so it might well pay vampires to use a slash-and-burn sort of approach.

But what disturbs me most about this piece is how it managed to get accessed from a couple of days forward in time. Does this mean that we should look out for some alarming developments tomorrow or the day after? Has it already begun?

Francis D. October 29, 2005 at 1:46 am

Why should we call a parasite someone who buys something as part of a voluntary exchange?

Stephanie_B October 29, 2005 at 7:44 am

Interesting…Accordingly, as an anti-intellectual intellectual in the Rothbardian sense one can never be satisfied with criticizing various government follies, although one might have to begin with this, but one must always proceed from there to a fundamental attack on the institution of the state as a moral outrage and its representatives as moral as well as economic frauds, liars, and impostors – as emperors without clothes.

Beale_J October 29, 2005 at 11:26 am

vampires, for the most part, pass as human, and pretend to be part of human society, showing their human faces most of the time. If they try and pretend to be part of human society, then they should abide by human laws and ethics. For example, the vampires in ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ should abide by the relevant local, state, and federal laws.If vampires want to claim that they shouldn’t be treated as human, then they should get together and agitate for their own state, a ‘Vampire Republic’, run according to vampire laws and customs.

averros October 31, 2005 at 9:17 pm

It is called “a satire”, but it really isn’t.

In fact, we’re likely to see the question of how to deal with non-human intelligence (and immortal one, too!) arising in this century.

And, yes, libertarian ethics seems to be the only one capable of dealing with the coming crisis.

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