Un buen artículo de Christian Michel en la página del Mises Institute. No es una respuesta exhaustiva ni definitiva a la pregunta, pero su planteamiento es refrescante y de bastante sentido común.
Pero sobre todo me gusta este pasaje en el que se refiere a los dos tipos de excepciones al uso de la violencia.All human languages have a concept of a personal pronoun and a gerund. These indicate the bond that a human being establishes between herself and another, between himself and an object: not just any man, but my friend; not just any tool, but mine, one which I have made, which I have used and which I can reasonably expect to use again. That bond is established through birth (my child), between consenting adults (my spouse), through homesteading (my land, which I settled before anybody else did), through transfer by mutual consent (my book for which I have paid the price asked by the seller). Who could make a stronger claim? Those who are not the parents? Those who have not first tilled the soil? Those who have not paid for the book? (...)
[T]he only limit to our creating new bonds with people (both in relation to themselves and to objects) is their right of refusal. We do not want to be forced into a marriage, friendship, employment, or to be forced to buy or sell, and we find it reasonable not to impose these demands on others. We intrinsically believe that each of us should have the possibility of evaluating his existing ties, to exchange these or not to do so, in accordance with what he believes will be the satisfaction that he and his counterpart will each derive from that exchange.
Como dijera Kelvin Throop, si la gente se comportase como el Estado llamaríamos a la policía.
- Everyone is exempted from respecting another person's rights in certain clearly defined circumstances (for instance, each of us has the right to kill our aggressor if we are acting in self-defense).
- Certain clearly defined persons are exempted from respecting other people's rights in all circumstances. They are the government. The government may rob and kill with impunity when they declare this transgression to be in the name of "taxation," "just war," or "reasons of state."
