Judge Napolitano: I am the quintessential Rothbardian

[green73]

The Judge joined Tom Woods today for Tom's 100th episode of his show and answered listeners' questions. At 16:16 he is asked where he stands on Rothbardian anarchism.

http://www.schiffradio.com/pg/jsp/verticals/archive.jsp?dispid=310&pid=64105

update: Start at 15:30 with this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciaPsHI6J5I

 

[lib3rtarian]

Betcha they wouldn't have agreed on abortion.

Rothbard:

The proper groundwork for analysis of abortion is in every man’s absolute right of self-ownership. This implies immediately that every woman has the absolute right to her own body, that she has absolute dominion over her body and everything within it. This includes the fetus. Most fetuses are in the mother’s womb because the mother consents to this situation, but the fetus is there by the mother’s freely-granted consent. But should the mother decide that she does not want the fetus there any longer, then the fetus becomes a parasitic “invader” of her person, and the mother has the perfect right to expel this invader from her domain. Abortion should be looked upon, not as “murder” of a living person, but as the expulsion of an unwanted invader from the mother’s body. Any laws restricting or prohibiting abortion are therefore invasions of the rights of mothers.

Judge Napolitano:

Is the baby in the womb a person? Of course babies in wombs are persons. From the moment of the union of egg and sperm, there is present a fully actualizable human genome; meaning all the genetic material necessary for post-birth existence is there. And the parents of that union are human beings. With human parents and a human genome, what else could a baby in a womb be but a person? If you have any doubt, why not give the benefit of that doubt to life, rather than to death? Unless you prefer death to life and killing to nurturing and misery to joy, I expect you agree.

 

[green73]

Betcha they wouldn't have agreed on abortion.

Rothbard:



Judge Napolitano:

Nor would Lew Rockwell,Tom Woods, Jeffrey Tucker, Bob Murphy, and countless others. Hardly a dividing point.

 

[Occam's Banana]

About the interview, from Tom Woods' blog ...

Judge Napolitano Answers Your Questions
http://tomwoods.com/blog/judge-napolitano-answers-your-questions/
Tom Woods (18 February 2014)

Today on the Tom Woods Show I asked Judge Andrew Napolitano your questions, submitted on my Facebook page.

As a judge, how did you handle cases involving a law you considered unjust?

What do you think about jury nullification?

If you could introduce just one constitutional amendment, what would it be?

Do you think the NSA lawsuit has potential, or is it just political theater?

You’re a Catholic; do you think there is anything irreconcilable between your religious views and your libertarian political views?

What advice would you give a law school student?

Should you challenge your law professors?

What’s your next book about? (This was my question.)

Remember, subscribe to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher!

 

[green73]

About the interview, from Tom Woods' blog ...

Judge Napolitano Answers Your Questions
http://tomwoods.com/blog/judge-napolitano-answers-your-questions/
Tom Woods (18 February 2014)

Today on the Tom Woods Show I asked Judge Andrew Napolitano your questions, submitted on my Facebook page.

As a judge, how did you handle cases involving a law you considered unjust?

What do you think about jury nullification?

If you could introduce just one constitutional amendment, what would it be?

Do you think the NSA lawsuit has potential, or is it just political theater?

You’re a Catholic; do you think there is anything irreconcilable between your religious views and your libertarian political views?

What advice would you give a law school student?

Should you challenge your law professors?

What’s your next book about? (This was my question.)

Remember, subscribe to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher!

Interesting. He left the best question out. Is that an attempt to ensnare statists?

 

[Occam's Banana]

Interesting. He left the best question out. Is that an attempt to ensnare statists?

Could be. Tom's a very clever guy ...

 

[green73]

Bump! you freggin lunatics.

 

[Christian Liberty]

Nor would Lew Rockwell,Tom Woods, Jeffrey Tucker, Bob Murphy, and countless others. Hardly a dividing point.

I don't know, I think in some ways it is. Supporting abortion and opposing it are completely different. Its almost like saying African slavery isn't a dividing point, honestly.

That's not to deny, first of all, that Rothbard had a number of great things to say, and second of all, that any libertarian society would feature far less abortion than the current society. I like Rothbard a lot. But he's so wrong on that issue that I'd probably prefer Ron Paul, despite his minarchism.