Continuums Part II - LRC Blog
Continuums Part II To: Kenn Williamson ; Walter Block Subject: Typhoid Mary Interesting discussion that you two are having. I agree with Kenn in principle: libertarianism does not allow for punishing pre-crime (to use the term made popular in the movie, The Minority Report). Pre-crime is how most state regulation works: the state posits that action A might lead to damage, and thus prohibits action A, but that unnecessarily and immorally constrains all of those using their own property engaging in action A who don’t cause the theoretical damage. Only when damage is actually caused, or i...
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