“Where did the Non-Aggression Principle originate? Who was the first philosopher

—“Where did the Non-Aggression Principle originate? Who was the first philosopher to posit this axiom?”—

by Rik Storey

It was a deliberately and impractically broad term to refer to the loose ethics of classical liberals and also to the legal terminology used by many libertarians. It easily adopted an abstract and pseudo religious quality and is now the scourge of sensible people on the right the world over.