Interview With Jeff Snyder. Carlo Stagnaro at LewRockwell.com –
Interview With Jeff Snyder – Mr. Snyder wrote the book,
Nation of Cowards. This is long, but very good. Once again, the
non-agression principle is all we need. [lew]
bq.
I do not believe that rights are founded on prudential grounds, nor do
I believe that individuals are entitled by society or their government
to possess or exercise rights only so long as society or the state
judges (whether rightly or wrongly) that the rights confer an
aggregate net benefit upon society or the state as a whole. I have
been concerned in many of my writings to demonstrate this, as well as
the corollary proposition, that rights cannot be defended or justified
on utilitarian grounds, since to undertake such a defense is to imply
that rights require a utilitarian justification, and are therefore
contingent on positive aggregate outcomes.
[End the War on Freedom]
Leave a Reply