Bad thinking and bad actions are more closely connected than we think.
Inevitably, bad ideas give rise to questionable ethical propositions.

I am just realizing it after reading Doug Casey’s recent attack on charity ….
by which he means business philanthropy..

Which is of course only one part..of “charity””

So much confusion of terms..so many questionable assumptions

It was a disappointment.

Filled with arrogance…

Inner law, outer law – perish them all, we’re libertarians – a great, unwashed mass of yahoos who feel it’s ok to do just about anything , because – blimey – Doug Casey, latter-day casuist and emeritus professor of ethics — in between land speculation and stock-pumping – has just discovered that the best thing we can do in life is to do whatever we want however we want – because that makes it better for everyone else..

Oh yay. What an insight.

How did I miss that..and all those idiot moralists and artists who thought differently – various nonentities who didn’t amass wealth through speculation..why, they’re just envious fools who got what they deserved..

Casey succumbs to theory..and bad theory, at that.

Although, any theory about ethics at all, if it pretends to rest on its own logical machinery is on its face bad.

All true ethics proceeds from the practice of an ethical life. Not from theory.