This weekend I came across an old journal I kept as a boy, when I was 8 to 10 years old, and was reading its goofy entries to my own 8 year old, to his delight. I came across an entry from November, 1975, when I was 10, and it strikes me now that it has elements of my later libertarian views on the non-aggression principle and how aggression is simply not argumentatively justifiable:
I made up a little poem today. Would you like to hear it? I thought so, here goes:
If a person kills another person for no reason, no matter how much land he has, it’s not enough to stand on.
Well, it’s not a poem, but anyway. Since Hoppe was at this point still a lefty (if memory serves), I think I kinda beat him to Hoppeanism! (For more on my libertarian origins, see How I Became A Libertarian, December 18, 2002, LewRockwell.com, published as “Being a Libertarian” in I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians.)
Mr. Kinsella,
I subscribe to your rss feeds and just thought I should tell you that in the subject line of this post it now reads “Order Ginseng Online No Prescription – HQ Pharmacy? Rather odd considering this post has nothing at all to do with ginseng. Perhaps a spambot somehow got ahold of your code?
Ryan