Body ownership is private property
A person considers a thing his property if he believes he’s justified in using force to exclude others from its unauthorised use.…
Posts tagged with rights
Guns, homicide, and the inadequacy of prohibitionist “common sense”
Easy access to a firearm may be the dispositive factor that leads the marginal killer to commit a crime , increasing the homicide rate. But firearms are also used defensively, and in these ways guns decrease the homicide rate.…
We Can Do Better Than a Right to Healthcare
I hope to show here that it's not a right to healthcare that you really want, but something much more valuable.…
Virtual Rothbardianism
I identify as an anarcho-capitalist and a moral nihilist. Here I'll sketch how these pieces fit together for me.…
NAPI. Non-Aggression Principle Insufficiency
Followers of Rothbard invoke the non-aggression principle (NAP) as the standard against which the permissibility of any action is to be judged. But the NAP is insufficient for this use. I call this idea non-aggression principle insufficiency. NAPI for short.…
Against the presumption of open borders. Border policy agnosticism.
Libertarians cannot assume that a state-controlled open border policy is automatically a more libertarian option than the state restrictively policing the border.…
Gun Governance without Government
Private ‘Rights Enforcement Agencies’ allow a granular approach, better for finding the proper balance between the harms and benefits of gun ownership.…
Human Needs Don't Exist
Imagining categorical needs – divorced from individual values and goals – dismisses human difference, subjectivity, intentionality and reason.…