It has been fashionable of late for some libertarians to broaden the libertarian non-aggression principle in their attempts to make libertarianism less thin and brutal and more cosmopolitan and humanitarian. I will not address this controversy here. I recently made very clear my views on libertarianism. What I do want to address is an older libertarian attack on the non-aggression principle that has recently reared its ugly head. Some libertarians, way back when (Liberty, May 1988) and more recently (here and here), have actually called for abandoning the non-aggression principle altogether. (See replies to the recent cases here and here). … Continue reading Shall We Abandon the Non-Aggression Principle?