On the IP Question
My article here elicited more correspondence than any in memory.
My article here elicited more correspondence than any in memory.
The fact that animals can obviously not petition for their "rights" is part of their nature, and part of the reason why they are clearly not equivalent to, and do not possess the rights of, human beings.
But what you are not permitted to do in a free market is use violence in the attempt to create an artificial scarcity, which is all that IP legislation really does.
Kevin Gutzman gives his readers much more than they had a right to expect. The "Politically Incorrect Guide" series in which his book appears aims at a popular audience:
It is not only the regulation on retail price maintenance that is unconstitutional but the whole of the Sherman Antitrust Act…