Nonaggression and Self-Ownership, Thin and Thick Libertarianism

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 [...]

Voluntary Slavery

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 [...]