Re people who say they “don’t believe in labels” …. Labels are just words that correlate with concepts. So what is the person against–conceptual thinking, or being able to communicate them by language? When someone tells me he doesn’t believe in labels, I say, “So, you’re one of those non-labelers, eh?”
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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