The libertarian approach is a very symmetrical one: the non-aggression principle does not rule out force, but only the initiation of force. In other …

- Stephan Kinsella

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean home…

- Stephan Kinsella

Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.

- Stephan Kinsella

We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title…

- Stephan Kinsella

To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that …

- Stephan Kinsella

My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law a…

- Stephan Kinsella

The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to …

- Stephan Kinsella

The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press…

- Stephan Kinsella

The Austrian theory of subjective value teaches us that there are many ways to incentivize or motivate or induce someone to commit an action for you:…

- Stephan Kinsella