may threaten or initiate violence against other people or their legitimately
owned property. The source of licit ownership is broadly based upon
Lockean homesteading principles and self-ownership.
As such, libertarianism is not very controversial. Who, after all, advocates
murder, rape, or theft, quintessential violations of this code?
However, when this perspective is applied to a whole host of legal issues,
the fireworks begin. For the mainstream view on these issues is very much
in the direction of violating these supposedly acceptable to all principles.
This book will lay out the libertarian philosophy in all of its dimensions
and apply it to several very fascinating issues, including the following:
sexual, religious and racial discrimination, environmentalism,
markets in human body parts, drug legalization, the Boy Scouts and antigay
discrimination, sexual harassment, and criminology.
A person could be forgiven for thinking that this collaboration is one
between “strange bedfellows.” Block, best described as a New York City
Jew, hails from Brooklyn. Whitehead is a “good old boy” from the backwoods
of Arkansas.