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Ep. 2364 Gene Epstein: Should We Abandon the Nonaggression Principle?

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The Non-Aggression Principle

Tom Steyer: I'm going to be the poor man's David Friedman for a few minutes. He said, my first argument is nobody really believes the non-aggression principle. And what he meant by that was if your principle is you cannot initiate coercion and initiating coercion includes aggressing against the private property rights of another person then you definitely don't believe it., says Steyer. "You know that our mentor Murray Rothbard would have dismissed such arguments by resorting to the old cliche, hard cases make bad law," Steyer adds.

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