Thursday, December 6, 2018

The Cons of Spontaneous Order

 One of the elements of Libertarian thinking veers close to Naturalistic Fallacy.

Here is an excerpt of a  letter to Bordeaux from Caplan. Bordeaux had written earlier that the Left did not understand the notion of "spontaneous order;" Caplan disagrees:

"I don’t think it’s correct to argue that leftists do not “grasp the reality of spontaneous order.” It is precisely that spontaneous order and the freedom that yields it (sic) that the left hates, because it is the opposite of the centralized control that is the reason d’etre of the left. Here is a simple conceptual experiment: Suppose that the left did understand spontaneous order and its implications. Can anyone believe that they would applaud it? Of course not, because it is a specific set of evolving allocational outcomes that they demand, along with the coercion needed to effect them. That is why the left is fundamentally anti-human."

Are there examples of spontaneous order that Caplan would try to rise above?

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