September 04, 2006

How We Come to Own Ourselves
By N. Stephan Kinsella

The primary social evil of our time is lack of respect for self-ownership rights. It is what underlies private crime as well as institutionalized crime perpetrated by the state. State laws, regulations, and actions are objectionable just because the state is claiming the right to control how someone's body is to be used.

When the state drafts a man or threatens him with imprisonment if he violates its narcotics laws, for example, it is assuming partial control of his body, contrary to his self-ownership rights.

Moreover, laws such as tax laws or fines for failure to comply with arbitrary state decrees (e.g., economic regulations, anti-discrimination rules), also violate self-ownership rights by assuming ownership of property owned by individuals.

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