Freedom lives at UT Austin
Freedom subsumes individual liberty and personal responsibility. If individuals are free to act and also held responsible to bear the consequences for their actions, good outcomes will be reinforce correct behavior and bad outcomes will provide a learning experience. When government gets in the way of this feedback loop, it prevents the development of virtue and merely subjects the individual to the will of the State.
Introduction Intellectual property is the presumed right of the creator of an idea to certain controls over all the physical forms in which his idea is recorded. The extent of this control may be different depending on whether the idea is considered to be copyrighted, patented, or trademarked, but the essential principle is the same [...]
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 [...]
