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标题：Property Rights vs. Utilitarianism: Two Views of Ethics
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作者：Robert McGee
期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：2004
卷号：27
页码：85-112
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：Most discussions of political philosophy revolve around the relationship between the individual and the state or the individual and the masses. But before we can begin such discussions, a few preliminary points need to be addressed. Let's start with property rights. The underlying premises upon which property rights are based include the nonaggression axiom and natural rights, which flows from the nonaggression axiom. The nonaggression axiom states that the initiation of force is never justified. Rothbard states it thus: "that no man or group of men may aggress against the person or property of anyone else."1That is not to say that self-defense is never justified,2because it is, if one believes that one has the right to protect one's property (the body, the nose or whatever other body part is being aggressed against) from aggression. It is an objective fact, one that all reasonable men can agree on