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I was re-reading the Ethics of Liberty and I'm starting to have second thoughts about Rothbard's theory of contracts especially when considered in light of Kinsella's view of intellectual property. Rothbard argues that contracts are only enforceable when breaking them amounts to implicit theft (p. 172, chapter 19, Ethics of Liberty) and
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[quote user="Trianglechoke7"] Jeff, thanks for the answer. Could you give me a specific answer as to whether or not a parent should be allowed to give their child meth, at say 9 years of age? Let's assume that the child has learned about drugs in school, and has asked the parent for it. [/quote] I think the answer is no, parents should
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I can relate to this worry. This is no doubt the trickiest area in libertarian theory. Before I jumped ship and became and became an anarchist, I emailed Bob Murphy a very similar problem involving sex. He forwarded the question to some others, and I found Roderick Long's answer somewhat compelling at the time and even moreso now: "'I'm
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Walter Block mentions this problem in his talk "Plumb Line Libertarianiam" available here: http://www.mises.org/mp3/ASC8/ASCRoth.mp3 Fast forward to 18:45 He claims that it's a problem of implicit contracts, but I'm not sure if that holds in your example because no voluntary trade has taken place.
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I looked around the site, but I couldn't find the answer to this. Is Mises University "accredited"? Does the student walk away with course credit that can count towards his degree? If so, how much?