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More on Non-Aggression
Submitted by mhstahl on Sat, 2013-04-13 00:00
"So, let me say right off the bat that I don’t advocate “rejecting” norms against aggression per se. What I object to is the NAP as the sole and absolute criterion of libertarian justice. As I tried to make clear in the original essay, I think that a very strong presumption against coercion makes perfect sense. But to hold that that presumption is indefeasible, and the sole relevant criterion of justice, as Rothbard seemed to hold, strikes me as deeply implausible. And it was that absolutism and monism to which I was objecting in my essay."
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