THE VIRTUE OF VIOLENCE – THE FAILURE OF THE NAP AND ROTHBARDIAN PROPERTY RIGHTS

THE VIRTUE OF VIOLENCE – THE FAILURE OF THE NAP AND ROTHBARDIAN PROPERTY RIGHTS

MORALITY

– Morality is a property of cooperation.

– Violence is amoral. (Not immoral, but amoral.)

– The purpose of the application of violence may or may not be moral.

– If we are not cooperating then violence is amoral, regardless of purpose.

– If we are cooperating, violence amoral, but its purpose is not.

– If we are cooperating and one must obtain restitution then violence is moral.

– If we are cooperating and violating property rights then violence for that purpose is immoral.

Although technically speaking:

1) Criminal violations are against body and property.

2) Unethical violations are under asymmetry of information.

3) Immoral violations are against asymmetry of awareness.

In the construction of property rights by the suppression of free riding in its criminal, unethical, immoral, and conspiratorial forms, violence is not amoral, but a VIRTUE.

Violence is a virtue not a vice.

And attempts to obtain liberty without paying the cost of suppressing free riding are acts of fraud – attempts to obtain an expensive end without paying for it.

Rothbardianism is Parasitism.

Either the NAP is false or the definition of property is too narrow, because NAP covers criminal but not unethical and immoral actions. As such the NAP is a device for outlawing the moral use of violence in an effort to preserve the immoral and unethical use of deception.

If instead, we state that property extends to all that humans have acted to obtain as their property by forgoing opportunity for consumption – then NAP against commons would be logical, and a prohibition against unethical and immoral behavior.

Therefore you must either abandon the NAP or Rothbardian property rights, as immoral, unethical, and illogical.