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Ep 20: Ch 10, Part 1 "A Dream of Socrates"

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Can Stolen Property Be a Virtue?

We also connect fallibleism and epistemology to a defence of capitalism or free trade against alternatives like communism. The choices between, can you own private property, make a claim on certain private property, or are other people allowed to take it from you? In other words, can stealing be a virtue? So this is why i think it's kind of the communist or socialist world, r you that certain kinds of stealing, certain kinds of thievery, are ok. That's where we go in taking this theory to its extreme. But that's going to run up against some logical problems eventually,. Like no one will feel safe in such a society, and eventually will simply run out

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