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We still remember you with fondness here, lad.
Cave Fisher
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It seems like the website for VGcats is down and has been since at least april 15th. If you trust some random anons who say they're on the patreon discord server talking about it, the word is that Scott lost a lot of login information and is slow to get it back, and the hosting company won't verify him.
Not sure if it's OVER over or not, but there is a nonzero chance that the last page of this comic will be this shit. (apparently basd on vrchat)
Guys I PROMISE this shit had a lot more soul to it back in my day
Not sure if it's OVER over or not, but there is a nonzero chance that the last page of this comic will be this shit. (apparently basd on vrchat)
Guys I PROMISE this shit had a lot more soul to it back in my day
Arthur Morgan
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Majority of them are in a Zip file on Archive.org. It's weird looking through the archives and seeing how little he actually drew, and then he had these weird bursts where he'd actually get them out weekly for maybe a month. 21 years and he made less than 400 comics. Fucking Fred Gallagher got more out than that.
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IIRC Super Effective didn't even make it to Cerulean.
Arthur Morgan
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I can't even remember if he made it to Mt Moon or not.
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Furry degeneracy. Not even once.
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(Not new, but on-topic)
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While I assume he's too Kantian for your liking, I can guess that you have enough familiarity with Robert Nozick to explain if/how this is misrepresentative of his ideas. I only about his thought experiments against utilitarianism that everyone knows (and this author uses uncredited for other comics).
Robert Nozick is a right libertarian philosopher who believe freedom would best be achieved with an extremely limited government whose only real role was enforcing contracts. Free contracts, even between extremely unequal members, were always perfect free, and any property could be maintained as long as it was acquired in an unbroken chain of consensual agreements. Private ownership of things like roads, and even the ocean, was encouraged. So one could expect, for example, that every road was a toll road and there would be no public land at all.
I consider this to be bad, in case you couldn't tell.
I consider this to be bad, in case you couldn't tell.
While I assume he's too Kantian for your liking, I can guess that you have enough familiarity with Robert Nozick to explain if/how this is misrepresentative of his ideas. I only about his thought experiments against utilitarianism that everyone knows (and this author uses uncredited for other comics).
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Hi
I'm not too into Nozick, but I'm sufficiently familiar. If anyone is more in-the-know and finds a substantial flaw in this, please do point it out.
So, I probably don't need to go too in-depth on why claiming ownership of the ocean and enforcing contracts with private violence is clearly a satirical overextension.
Nozick's entitlement theory is centered on three principles: just acquisition, just transfer, and rectification of injustice.
Ownership depends on prior acquisition through legitimate means, so there is no such thing as one person unilaterally claiming entire oceans, roads, or arbitrary property and enforcing that through private violence. In terms of that, this artist portrays the exact opposite of Nozick's argument.
The claim in the rant that contracts are "always perfectly free" is also misleading. Nozick does not assert that all voluntary transfers are morally perfect or beyond scrutiny. Rather, he maintains that holdings are just if they are acquired and transferred according to his principles. The focus here is on whether property is historically just.
A particularly critical point in Nozick is the distinction between historical justice and patterned distributions. That is, this toll-road/ocean fantasy implies a "patterned" system where resources must be universally privatized or monetized, which is something Nozick explicitly rejects. His minimal state is not a proactive redistribution or universal privatization machine, rather it protects property and contracts within a framework of historical justice without granting arbitrary authority or endorsing predation.
regarding Kantianism, I agree that Kantians must be bullied relentlessly until their reasoning improves. But I wouldn't call Nozick one.
Nozick does frame rights as constraints that limit what can be done to individuals regardless of "aggregate utility", which may sound like Kantianism... but Nozick grounds these constraints in historical entitlement, not a priori moral law. That is, Nozick's approach is consequentially aware, yet rights-focused. The minimal state intervenes only to protect justly acquired holdings, and not to enforce some abstract universal duty. Nozick is more concerned with the justice of holdings, and not categorical moral duties.