The Ethics Of Liberty - Property And Criminality
The Ethics Of Liberty by Murray Rothbard In chapter 9, Rothbard discusses how to identify criminals and respond to crime. Previously, he defined crime as using physical force to take control (ownership) of someone else's body or property. According to the natural law of human nature, every person owns their own body because the human mind controls the body's movement. Following that a person rightfully owns goods which were created by mixing his labor with previously unused raw materials found in nature. Picture a scene. You are walking down a city sidewalk. You see another man in the distance walking towards you wearing a white shirt and carrying a bag of money. You know there is money in it because there is a big dollar sign, $, printed on it. Then all of a sudden another man appears, walking across a side street wearing a black shirt. The man in the black shirt (BS) sees the man in the white shirt (WS), and runs over to him grabbing the bag of money. As you appro