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Evictionism, Pro-Life and Pro-Choice
Private property rights and evictions are two sides of the same coin. You can’t have one without the other. If you really own something, anything, you have the right to evict trespassers. If you cannot evict them, then, to that extent, you do not fully, really, own the property in question. The present paper will apply this insight to abortion, regarding the pro-life, pro-choice and evictionism positions on this matter.
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Space capitalism : how humans will colonize planets, moons, and asteroids
This book compares and contrasts the motivations, morality, and effectiveness of space exploration when pursued by private entrepreneurs as opposed to government. The authors advocate market-driven, private initiatives take the lead through enhanced competition and significant resources that can be allocated to the exploration and exploitation of outer space. Space travel and colonisation is analysed through the prism of economic freedom and laissez faire capitalism, in a unique and accessible book.
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Response to Szutta, Dominiak, Wojda, and Lipski on Evictionism
I am very grateful to Professors Artur Szutta, Łukasz Dominiak, Paul Wojda and Piotr Lipski for commenting on my essay “Evictionism, Pro-life and Pro-choice,” published in this issue. I have been writing about evictionism as an alternative to the well-known attempts to solve the conundrum of abortion for many decades. I have not made much headway in publicizing this viewpoint to the present date. It is my hope that these four splendid essays will rectify that deficiency. More important, the reactions of these four eminent philosophers have forced me to look far more deeply into my own writings on this subject. None of the four have yet seen their way clear to embrace this viewpoint. It is my hope that this response of mine will set them on this path.
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Autologous transplant therapy alleviates motor and depressive behaviors in parkinsonian monkeys
Degeneration of dopamine (DA) neurons in the midbrain underlies the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Supplement of DA via L-DOPA alleviates motor symptoms but does not prevent the progressive loss of DA neurons. A large body of experimental studies, including those in nonhuman primates, demonstrates that transplantation of fetal mesencephalic tissues improves motor symptoms in animals, which culminated in open-label and double-blinded clinical trials of fetal tissue transplantation for PD
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. Unfortunately, the outcomes are mixed, primarily due to the undefined and unstandardized donor tissues
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. Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells enables standardized and autologous transplantation therapy for PD. However, its efficacy, especially in primates, remains unclear. Here we show that over a 2-year period without immunosuppression, PD monkeys receiving autologous, but not allogenic, transplantation exhibited recovery from motor and depressive signs. These behavioral improvements were accompanied by robust grafts with extensive DA neuron axon growth as well as strong DA activity in positron emission tomography (PET). Mathematical modeling reveals correlations between the number of surviving DA neurons with PET signal intensity and behavior recovery regardless autologous or allogeneic transplant, suggesting a predictive power of PET and motor behaviors for surviving DA neuron number.
Rescue of motor and behavioral deficits in a primate model of Parkinson’s disease following autologous transplantation of iPSC-derived dopaminergic neural progenitors without immunosuppression.
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Trickle-Down Economics
Trickle-down economics is the hypothesis that when the rich get wealthier, this will positively impact the poor. The rich will lift up the poor into a less poverty-stricken situation. This hypothesis has been widely excoriated in the literature. Sometimes it has been conflated with the Laffer curve. The present paper makes the case that there is more to trickle-down economics than the critics allow.
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Libertarian Punishment Theory and Unjust Enrichment
What is the proper punishment from the perspective of the libertarian philosophy? More specifically, in what way, if at all, may a thief benefit from his robbery? The present essay attempts to wrestle with these challenging questions.
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Response to Hewitt on Abortion
The defense argument in favor of abortion sees the fetus as an invader, a trespasser, someone against whom violence is justified, since this very young person (the fetus) has initiated violence against his mother. Hewitt [30] rejects this argument. The present paper maintains the justification of this defense argument. My perspective is based on the private property rights of the mother. She owns her person. It is as if her body is her house, and a trespasser has invaded it. Surely, she has the right to evict such a person. This analogy is relatively easy to see in the case of rape. The unwanted fetus, now occupying a part of her body is in effect a intruder. If she really owns her body, which I contend she certainly does, she has a right to expel this person from her property. I also argue that voluntary sexual intercourse does not constitution an “invitation” for the pre-born baby to occupy her premises for nine months.
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