KOL437 | Morgan Meets the Eye: Argumentation Ethics, Private Law, Restitution and Punishment, Intellectual Property

Kinsella On Liberty

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 437. I was a guest this week on Morgan Meets the Eye, with Evan Morgan (recorded July 26, 2024). We discussed a variety of issues, including argumentation ethics, self ownership, using (possessing) vs. owning and possession vs. ownership, parents and children, my estoppel theory of rights, the state and law, punishment vs. restitution, corporations and limited liability, and so on. Many of these issues are touched on in my book Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023). From his shownotes: Patent attorney Stephan Kinsella joins the show to discuss the problems intellectual "property" laws create in society, how these laws came into being in the first place, and why intellectual property is a flawed concept to begin with. In making his case, he explains his argument's roots in argumentation ethics as well as how a proper libertarian legal system should function. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 03:44 What is argumentation ethics? 31:11 Self-ownership/first use 51:20 Kinsella responds to Robert Murphy's movie theatre argument 56:23 Liberty rights and claim rights 1:03:53 How argumentation ethics relates to law 1:10:08 Private legal systems 1:29:27 Limited liability and the corporate form 1:42:12 Intellectual property laws https://youtu.be/YL9RL8kvNg0?si=hHetD8pKwD2j2j89