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Popper On “Coercion”
Morality

Popper On “Coercion”

Posted on January 21, 2021December 30, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

In my previous post, I talked about the difficulties libertarians have even just agreeing with each other over what constitutes an ‘initial use of force.’…

Is “Initial Use of Force” an Easy-to-Vary Explanation?
Morality

Is “Initial Use of Force” an Easy-to-Vary Explanation?

Posted on January 15, 2021January 13, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Libertarians claim that the foundational moral principle of libertarianism is that it is immoral to “initiate force.” This concept of “initial use of force” –…

Do Most Citizens See Governments as Involuntary?
Economics

Do Most Citizens See Governments as Involuntary?

Posted on January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

An argument made by anarcho-capitalists is that anarcho-capitalism can be thought of as the idea that we should prefer voluntary interactions over non-voluntary ones. Because…

A Voluntarist Account of The Founding of America
Politics

A Voluntarist Account of The Founding of America

Posted on September 17, 2020November 27, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

In this post, I am going to consider a Voluntarist account of the founding of the United States of America. Of interest is that Logan’s…

A Libertarian Account of Original Appropriation
Politics

A Libertarian Account of Original Appropriation

Posted on September 10, 2020September 3, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

In Logan Chipkin’s interview of Stephan Kinsella (starting about here) Kinsella explains the Libertarian concept of “Original Appropriation.” Kinsella says that we will need a…

A Voluntarist Account of Police and Court Systems
Critical Rationalism

A Voluntarist Account of Police and Court Systems

Posted on August 27, 2020August 5, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

How do libertarians (and here I specifically mean the anarcho-capitalist variety) believe policing and court systems might work without a state? I had a chance…


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