Showing posts with label Slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slavery. Show all posts

Saturday, June 4, 2022

Should Libertarians Support Slavery?


Should those who call themselves “libertarians” object to people contracting themselves into slavery? If so, are they right? 

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Self-Ownership and Individual Rights

It has been said that all rights we have as human beings are rooted in individual self-ownership. If taken literally, and not as some sort of metaphor, this cannot be right.

Some talk suggesting self-ownership is the source of rights might be nothing more than rhetorical flourish, elaborating the observation that we have rights with respect, e.g., to our hands that are, in many respects, at least as strong as our rights with respect to our gloves. That I will not dispute. I here take issue only with those, perhaps few in number, who have been carried away and truly embrace the theory that the fundamental basis of individual rights is a property right of self-ownership

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Jefferson Davis and the Moral Right to Abolish Slavery

Here is a meditation on the question whether Lincoln was, or you would be, morally in the right in using unlawful force against the institution of chattel slavery.