Neo-Edelexianism

Edelexianism
"What are your metaethics?"
Basic Information
Aliases	Edelism Edelexism Edelexianism Metaethical georgism
Alignments	LibUnity Centre-libertarian right Culturally Left Libertarians Capitalists Internationalists Feminists Minarchists (eventually)
Greatest achievement	Nothing
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Neoconservatism Georgism Globalism Internationalism Progressivism
Character Information
Likes	Maths Reading Philosophy
Dislikes	Nationalism Socialism Intellectual 'property'

"Democracy is just a ton of people thinking they have the right to interfere with my shit."

Edelex

Neo-edelexianism is the ideology of edelex after accepting the non-aggression principle. It's socially progressive, civically libertarian and economically capitalist. Ethically, it is a minimal moral realist and deontologist. It is from this framework that most of its politics are derived.

Government

Neo-Edelexianism is civically libertarian. It supports the total legalisation of all actions that do not break the non-aggression principle. This includes all consensual sex acts, all taking and selling of drugs, and assisted suicide. All immigration and 'copyright violation' should be allowed unconditionally. It is mostly anti-democracy, believing that tyranny of the majority is a legitimate concern and the rights of individuals should not be violated by the state in the name of popular opinion or the 'greater good'. It also believes that democracy does not always bring society the best results, as can be seen with brexit. Thus, its influence should be in government near nonexistent. It should be noted that people are free to practice democracy within their own private property. It supports progression towards minarchism. It views compulsory education as child slavery and says that it must be abolished immediately. Parents are free to kick out their children at any time, at any age. It believes that after enforcing the NAP, its second priority should be to profit for itself . If it does this, not only will it generate more profit for NAP enforcement and be explicit about its profit-based interests (which already exist), but it will also mean they will want to keep land values high (as they collect land value tax) by supporting the development of nearby infrastructure.

Philosophical and Psychological Foundations

Edelism is generally psychologically egoist, rejecting humanism. It believes that groups form from common self-interest. It therefore believes that wide-scale society and technology are generally bad descriptively , although thinks their development is inevitable and its slowing is a waste of time.

Most of its philosophy lies in its metaethics, being a minimal moral realist. This means that it accepts that moral claims express truth-evaluable propositions, that some of them are true, but not that there are real moral properties.

To justify the first part, also known as the semantic thesis, it uses the Frege-Geach problem. This is a critique of noncognitivism (the idea that moral claims just express emotions and so cannot be true or false) which states that the ability to embed moral claims into more complex sentences leads to an inconsistency in what the moral claims express if noncognitivism is true.

The second part, the alethic thesis, is justified with its justification of the non-aggression principle, which is the following: There is an objective truth, and therefore some conclusions are objectively more rational than others. If some conclusions are more rational than others, then the act of concluding some things is more rational than the act of concluding others. If actions can be somehow based in truth and therefore rational, there must be normativity, or 'ought' claims involved. Therefore there are ought claims about reasoning. If you are then obligated to act with your body in some way by reaching conclusions, you must have rights over your body, and a right to exclude others from it so you can freely fulfill your obligations. Someone else violating this right would therefore be immoral. Now we have self-ownership, if we want to own other things, we must have a moral system which, if everyone were to follow it and have full rights to defend their property, there would be no violations of another's self-ownership. This system is the NAP. It also follows from this that all ethical matters are reducable to property.

It should be noted that as animals cannot be held to epistemic norms ('ought' claims about reasoning), they are not held to the NAP under Neo-Edelexianism.

It is metaphysically dualist, antirealist about causal relations, epistemologically empiricist (although it accepts inference and reason) and atheist (due to lack of reason to believe in God).

Economics

Economically, Neo-Edelexianism roughly aligns with Friedrich Hayek. It supports an almost entirely free market, 100% private business freedom as a natural consequence of the NAP, with the state only stepping in when absolutely necessary to ensure people's wellbeing as a temporary measure, preferring mutual aid and charity where possible, due to the knowledge and economic calculation problems. It generally believes that we should try to avoid reliance on the state, and we should develop more mutual aid and charity, with the eventual goal of minarchism. It is also Georgist, only supporting taxes on (effectively collectivising) scarce, unproducable resources (land/natural resources), and pollution, as both are usage of the commons (land itself and the atmosphere/air). It generally tries to avoid nationalisation but for military, police, courts and some land, it may be necessary. Microeconomically, it accepts the subjective theory of value, and macroeconomically is sympathetic to the monetary theory of value. It supports total free international trade , including of drugs, and supports the West's economic domination on the global scale. It views consensual child labour as permissible, however not forced (compulsory schooling), stating that there is no meaningful difference between children working for fun (for example helping with gardening) and working for money (working for a gardening business).

Foreign Policy

Edelism supports a hawkish foreign policy, supporting the 1999 NATO intervention in Yugoslavia, the 2011 intervention in Libya , the war on terror in Somalia, and more skeptically, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, at least conceptually. Targeting governments exclusively is acceptable, however, side-effects of civilian property damage must be avoided and compensated for. It believes in increasing international accountability and enforcement of UN Security Council Resolutions through force, including against Israel's current crimes against the Palestinian people. When it comes to Israel, it believes that the West Bank and Gaza Strip should be Palestinian territory, and Jerusalem should be international territory, with semi-autonomous regions for Israel and Palestine, to mitigate apartheid and terrorism respectively. Smaller Israeli settlements in the West Bank should be destroyed and there should be land swaps to account for the bigger ones. Safe passage should be ensured between Gaza and the West Bank. It accepts and embraces the fact that its foreign and economic policy is essentially imperalist.

Social issues

Neo-Edelexianism is socially progressive, believing in the performativity theory of gender, being pro-gay marriage, and the idea that race is a social construct. It primarily differs from extreme social progressivism, however, in its skepticism around deplatforming, 'otherkin', xenogenders, and neopronouns. It believes discourse is essential and deplatforming is generally counterproductive, although it respects the right of private companies to have their own content policy. It believes that private businesses have the right to exclude others from their rightful property for any reason , and this includes on the basis of their sexuality, race, religion, or any other characteristic, regardless of Neo-Edelexianism's personal socially progressive views. It is feminist, 100% pro-choice up until the beginning of labour, and completely against gun control . The right to bear arms extends as far as nuclear bombs. If it is legitimately acquired, it's yours. It supports equality before the law, however it is not egalitarian beyond that, believing that private businesses have no obligation to give people equal opportunity or outcome. It rejects both Marxist and Whiggish views of history, and teleology and dialectics generally, due to its antirealist views on causal relations.