Deontological vs consequentialist libertarians

Property is often confused as to mean only inanimate objects such as a car, shovel, or food, etc… Property, though, also includes a person. A person owns their own self - they are their own property.

Slavery, such as what the southern U.S. had, is an attempt to completely coercively own a person, but it fails miserably. Because even slaves have free-will, live their life, and retain who they are (are their own property). Obviously they are not very free and their choices are very limited unless they want to enact self-defense - being rational with each other is an attempt to avoid such conflict. So… a master can’t take away who a person is. Even if they lost their identify in some sci-fi kind of way, the person would still be at liberty to move their own thoughts, vocal cords, arms, legs, etc… They are still that particular person distinct from another person. They would still be their own property though in this sci-fi kinda way they simply wouldn’t know their original identity. I posted on this before and provided some quotes and a list of people who define property and other NR for that matter the same logically consistent way. List includes Hoppe, Locke, and others…

NR are inherent even if one knows it or not - thus why realizing the nature of a human being is insightfully helpful. Science is a wonderful thing. Every person is alive (life), has free-will (liberty), and are they themselves (property).

Ignorance is the misuse of concepts without taking the time to learn their truth. If I’m ever ignorant I would be grateful that somebody would come along and teach or direct me to what is true about any particular topic. It’s not deragatory to be called ignorant for any person that thinks highly of critical thinking. It’s rather a compliment. What would be unfortunate is for me or anybody else to continue to use ill-informed reasoning.[8-|]