I was sent this query: I have a question about a situation. Suppose person A buried radioactive waste in an area where no house was built. A month later, person B builds a house in the area, lives in it, and suffers radiation damage from the radioactive waste in the ground. Is this a crime […]
Someone asked Hans-Hermann Hoppe for any of his recommendations as to texts, articles, books and the like on science of law, norms, crime, legal responsibility, philosophy of law, which are linked to Austrian and praxeological thinking–writings on a philosophical legal level. I was cc’d on this corresponded and provided the following answer. Dr. Hoppe passed onto […]
Q: Hi Mr. Kinsella, I have a question about property rights concerning dead people. How would a Rothbardian theory of property justify the will of a dead person? Is the will a genuine contract or is it void? More specifically, I’m engaging in a conversation and someone said that a will is not per se […]
From Facebook: Libertarian Answer Man time: Deepfakes, Revenge Porn, etc. Someone asked me if I had written or had any thoughts on the issue of whether AI and applications like deepfake videos or photos could be a rights violation, for example if it is used to make a fake video of someone depicting them doing […]
LIBERTARIAN ANSWER MAN TIME A high school student sent me a question. Here’s my dashed-off reply: On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 4:21 PM E wrote: Hey Mr. Kinsella, I’ve found myself very interested in your works concerning argumentation ethics. I find myself pretty convinced of it, but I do have a few questions about […]
From C4SIF: Mr. IP Answer Man Time: On Steel and Swords Feb. 4 2022 From V: Dear Professor Kinsella, I am an economics scholar in the Austrian economics tradition, I am an adherent of the libertarian outlook on life and have read many of your articles on intellectual property and decentralised law. I was reading your […]
LIBERTARIAN ANSWER MAN TIME Restrictive Covenants and Homeowners Associations (HOAs) (From this Facebook post) [Update: see Libertarian Answer Man: Restrictive Covenants, Reserved Rights, and Copyright; also discussed a bit in KOL354 | CDA §230, Being “Part of the State,” Co-ownership, Causation, Defamation, with Nick Sinard] FROM C: “Hello, “I’ve recently taken interest in how you’ve […]
From this facebook post: LIBERTARIAN ANSWER MAN TIME MIND-BODY DUALISM, SELF-OWNERSHIP AND PROPERTY RIGHTS FROM N: “Hi Stephan, The other day, I was asked whether argumentation ethics presupposes a mind-body dualism since Hoppe makes the argument in A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism that nth-use property rights (when n != 1) can’t be justified since […]
I’ve long argued that you can’t sell yourself into slavery by contract. See KOL004 | Interview with Walter Block on Voluntary Slavery. Also: Some of my writing relevant to this topic and our discussion include: “Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection,” The Libertarian Standard (Oct. 25, 2022) KOL197 | Tom Woods Show: The Central […]
From a libertarian colleague: What do you think about this proposition: “It doesn’t matter how the law is made or who enforces it. What matters is simply that the law is reasonably and fairly enforced and it is compatible with a reasonable interpretation of our principle.” Isn’t this what we want? Walter Block was cc’d […]
