I’ve added this organization to the Resource section of the Free Market page. Here’s what they’re all about: The Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF) is dedicated to building public awareness of the manner in which laws and policies impede innovation, creativity, communication, learning, knowledge, emulation, and information sharing. We are for property…
Tag: rights
Voluntaryist Trials by Jury
People claim that “trial by jury” is a right. Well, obviously, rights can’t require a service from someone else to qualify as a right. “Trial by jury” is no right at all, traditionally understood. However, that doesn’t mean that one cannot have a trial by jury. Wendy McElroy shares some interesting thoughts on how a…
Re: 5-year-old Arrested…
Says Christopher Wulf, the lesson for kids here is dont let strangers touch you unless its a cop. then just let it happen, it will all be over soon. badges have “extra rights”. Good point. Agents of coercivist institutions should not be resisted, unless you want to be hurt, or worse.
Re: Youth vs. Teenager
A very interesting interview on the subject of teenagers and adolescents of psychologist Robert Epstein. He believes adolescence is an artificial extension of childhood, that teenagers have more competence than we allow them to exhibit, and that our child-labor and compulsory schooling laws are counter-productive and keep teens from obtaining adulthood (and the rights and…
Government is Force
Some pundits really don’t understand why libertarians dislike government and therefore want it to do little, if anything at all. Unable to grasp the reason, the pundits assign bad motives to those who disparage government: They don’t like poor people, or workers, or the sick, or education. But what’s so hard to understand?