An oxymoron, you say?? Perhaps, but what if a person should voluntarily sign himself away to someone else with a contract? Can such a thing be done? Read on, and you will find the answer in what is doubtless to be the sexiest article I will ever post on this blog!
The Violation of Rights
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 [...]
The Foundations of Rights and the Capitalism of Law
In this post I will discuss the nature of rights and the principles of homesteading and consensual exchange. This is certainly a more fundamental issue than the one discussed in a previous post, in which I described how a system of law can arise out of the network of contracts between people in a free [...]
