[net.politics.theory] NEWS FLASH! LIBERTARIANS DISAGREE!

fagin@ucbvax.ARPA (Barry Steven Fagin) (03/22/85)

>>JoSH didn't borrow the money, he inherited it.

>Not in my libertarian society, he didn't. The dead don't have property
>rights to be violated, so they can't state what the money should be
>used for.

Whoa there, Mike.  Why can't I specify what happens to my property when I die?
If I have any property rights at all, surely they include the right
to decide how my property will be disposed of when I can no longer use it.
Here's one libertarian who thinks wills and inheritances are just fine
and dandy.

--Barry

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Barry Fagin @ University of California, Berkeley