http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/10/09/obama-deserves-the-nobel%e2%80%93or-two/ Austro-Anarchist Libertarian Legal Theory Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/10/09/obama-deserves-the-nobel%e2%80%93or-two/comment-page-1/#comment-4046 David Johnson Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:49:20 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?p=3458#comment-4046 Those who were (and are) particularly outraged by Yasser Arafat winning the Nobel Peace Prize, are not outraged out of a conviction for libertarian principles. Arafat was a political opportunist not deserving of any honor, but those who won the prize with him, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, in their lifetime, helped bring about injustices to a great many human beings, and ones far more antithetical to libertarian principles, than Arafat ever did, or ever could (as he never had the means at his disposal they both did many times in their lives). Using Arafat as the example of one of those who have received that “dubious honour”, IMO is a politically correct cheap shot that sends a message counter to a respect for the particular property assignment rules libertarianism is supposed to be about. Regards. Those who were (and are) particularly outraged by Yasser Arafat winning the Nobel Peace Prize, are not outraged out of a conviction for libertarian principles. Arafat was a political opportunist not deserving of any honor, but those who won the prize with him, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, in their lifetime, helped bring about injustices to a great many human beings, and ones far more antithetical to libertarian principles, than Arafat ever did, or ever could (as he never had the means at his disposal they both did many times in their lives). Using Arafat as the example of one of those who have received that “dubious honour”, IMO is a politically correct cheap shot that sends a message counter to a respect for the particular property assignment rules libertarianism is supposed to be about. Regards.

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