Category: Ethics

July 30, 2020

Who does a rule apply to?

Who does a rule apply to? That’s the question I was asking myself when I…

December 11, 2018

The purpose of property rights, i.e. the exclusive justifiable use of a rivalrous resource, is…

August 4, 2016

Intellectual Property (IP) is still defended by quite a few libertarians, but most of them…

July 30, 2016

Some short thoughts that I was having yesterday (none of them are original but I…

July 26, 2016

Here is a Hoppe quote from The Economics and Ethics of Private Property that is…

July 24, 2016

The Socratic Catholic has recently written posts about libertarianism, culture, and the incoherence of libertarianism. You…

July 21, 2016

There is an important distinction between possession vs. ownership. If somebody possesses an apple, for example,…

July 21, 2016

The author of the piece I responded to in “A Defense of Body-ownership and Parents”…

July 20, 2016

Many libertarians use the word axiom when they mean “a (synthetic) a priori statement.” Rothbard…

July 19, 2016

Here are 3 points that if they were understood widely in the libertarian community then…