Re: Ebola, Quarantine, and Property Rights
October 8, 2014
John: You make some good points. But, as with the ebola virus specifically, in a stateless society it is unlikely that anyone would have an incentive to invent and then patent such a threat to others. To paraphrase Hillary, “it takes a village coercive collective” to create tools for the mass destruction of human life!
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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