WiM058 - The Hillebrand Series | Episode 5 | Crime and Punishment
The "What is Money?" Show
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Keeping Your Promises Is Not Compulsion and Coercion Justified
Where is compulsion and or coercion justified? In the libertarian philosophy. It's only in the instances where someone has aggressed against your propertyhe stolen something, and then the victim or their agents can go and coerce or compulse to get that property back. And this, this is the crowning achievement of rothbart when he builds an ethic just on property rights. He's very consistent with that. But there was never a actual contract and a transfer of property rights involved between robert and me in the scenario. So that is the crucial difference where this would turn into a crime.
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