Joe Carter is trying to find a rational Christian libertarian position on blackmail. I had never thought about this issue before, but he raises a number of interesting questions. Hypothetically, the libertarian, even the Christian libertarian, would find blackmail immoral but not illegal, as the release of information, regardless of the circumstances, would not constitute a harm.
I'm a simple minded person, not prone to great leaps of abstract thought, so I'll bypass the inner workings of this conundrum and say that libertarianism is not a suicide pact. If the libertarian solution to a problem is stark raving mad, let's not do it.
Friday, March 11, 2005
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