Freedom lives at UT Austin
For over a decade, the manga series One Piece has delighted Japanese readers young and old, as well as the Americans fortunate enough to be clued into it. It is the best-selling manga series of all time, with over 185.6 million copies sold. Its author, Eichiro Oda, is the best-selling author in Japanese history, and [...]
Among libertarians, self-ownership is generally held to be a moral absolute. Under this view, it is not permitted ever that one person may be owned by someone else, even if he should attempt to sell his body voluntarily. The nonaggression principle and the self-ownership principle may be seen as equivalent or one may be seen [...]
In a previous post, I have said that the progress of rights is constrained by two principles, that of homesteading and consensual exchange. The first says that property may not be acquired from nature without demonstrating ownership in some way. Originally this must require altering it some obvious way, but as a society develops a [...]
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