abolition

Does anyone else oppose both capital punishment and the use of judicial fiat to bring about its abolition?

For instance, it's easy to find Moldbug holding forth about the evils of South African apartheid abolition.

The abolition of work is one of the most important political essays after the situationist international.

This one is particularly troubling - i 've never heard academics before defending the abolition of a fundamental human right.

But from a purely legal point of view, abolition has to come from the legislative branch.

Any such abolition would undercut the basic foundation upon which the vast majority of startups (and much of enterprise generally) are based.

You might argue that a few states abolished slavery, too, but that was not going to lead to nationwide abolition without war.

It clarifies the abolition of slavery, whose intent wasn't to abolish criminal sentences.

An important question if you believe in the abolition of work as a worthwhile goal: how do we get there?

After all, what is the abolition of privacy if not terrorism.

This then opened up a floodgate of other commercial nations wanting the same trade concessions (access to additional trade ports, abolition of tariffs) to keep up.

In that sense, the idea isn't pointless but actually would have practical implications, as much as the abolition of slavery wasn't simply a matter of definition.

I may be mis-stating this slightly - it's been a while since I read "The Abolition of Man".

We're talking about policies that could be considered "socialist." No one is talking about a wholesale abolition of the free market system.

This sounds very much like "The Abolition of Man" by C.

It's really not hard to find attachment points to Carlyle's "Discourse" in multiple places through Yarvin's writing --- the references to Carlyle, the nitpicking over 1850s politics extrapolated to condemnations of the abolition movement, the genetic predisposition stuff.