Robin Hood is a better fit, tho seen from a Libertarian perspective, strictly a criminal. He took it upon himself to redistribute the wealth from the deserving rich to the lazy poor, like that commie socialist Obama.
Bullshit. Robin Hood returned the wealth that the State had stolen from the poor.
The point is there is no logical reason why blackmail should be illegal, regardless of how unpleasant it is. There is a utilitarian case to be made that it does more good than harm. From the natural rights perspective, it doesn't violate any.
Not sure what you mean by "natural rights," right to privacy, right to bear arms, that sort of thing? Society makes laws based on its mores, and society finds blackmail morally objectionable. As our mores morph, laws follow. Sodomy used to be illegal, marrying your 13-yr.-old cousin was a-ok. Now that's changed.
Judicial law makes no claim to being eternal and immutable, like God's law, or laws of physics. It's just a bunch of formal rules.
As far as utility value of an act, utility to whom? Gassing Jews and faggots may have had great utility value, as most murders do (to those committing them). As most crime does. Not sue how utility of an act plays into all this.
Utility to whom? didn't you just say "
Society makes laws based on its mores, and society finds blackmail morally objectionable. As our mores morph, laws follow."??
My whole argument is that Society's mores are logically inconsistent. When a government employee or an unpaid volunteer do something that's legal and even encouraged suddenly becomes illegal and evil when done for profit.
Mores DO change. Empires, nations and entire civilizations come and go and excessive reliance on centralized power is usually an end stage signal of decline.
Civil laws effectively force people through threat of violence to behave a certain way and you think that's fine, but when we use shame to alter behavior, that's terrible. No wonder we have so many single mothers and broken homes. We are becoming a nation of bastards. literally. Society will not survive if the beta males who physically built it can't even have paternity assurance as compensation for their endless toil. Work to give half your money to the State and the other half to support a cheating wife and a kid you don't even know is yours?
I know already what the response is: "That guy's not a victim. He's a loser" He chose poorly. Well, he's a loser alright- but he's a loser because he thought the game was "win-win or no deal" when the game is between different groups of parasites and his blood is the prize.
I'm not gonna fight the system. I'm gonna sit back, watch it destroy itself and do my best to avoid getting dragged down with it. Let hackers hack. Let blackmailers blackmail. Let rioters riot and let the State go to Hell. This isn't even my society anymore.
