spooner

Lysander Spooner is not a mainstream American political philosopher, except to the extent that you consider anarcho-capitalism mainstream.

Tucker presented Spooner with a thought experiment: If two people should co-invent, how should the property be allocated.

Also, it usually takes hard work to get into the most prestigious universities (if you aren't already a silver spooner).

Amazingly, this is an almost exact re-hashing of the debates on IP that occurred between Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker in the 19th century.

Both Thoreau and Spooner are out of date in numerous ways.

I agree with the arguments of Henry David Thoreau and of Lysander Spooner to the effect that voting is fundamentally an immoral act.

The likes of Menger, Rothbard, Mises, Hayek, Spooner and co have written hundreds of thousands of pages detailing every last aspect of human/value interaction.

That's very reminiscent of the Spooner vs.

> Lysander Spooner is not a mainstream American political philosopher Immaterial.

With particular regard to the Constitution and its merits, I believe I paraphrase Lysander Spooner in saying, it either has failed to prevent tyranny or in fact provides for it.

I think they largely agreed on a lot of things, but there was a major wedge between them; Spooner was for a strong Intellectual Property regime, and Tucker rejected IP altogether.

Tucker argument about dual ownership of a patent; Spooner conceding to Tucker that co-inventors should each be able to freely license, then Tucker asking if one inventor were to give away the license to the world for free would he be infringing on the other inventor's rights.

It used to be a common position of American proto-libertarians as well, in the "individualist" tradition, like Lysander Spooner.

Lysander Spooner), and even in a form in Thomas Jefferson's "yeoman farmer" ideal (though he didn't follow it himself), since he thought industrial-style mass employment fit poorly with democracy.

People also forget about things like "the pony express" (a creative effort by a private delivery company to fill a niche market), Spooner's American Letter Mail Company and other wuch precedents.

Lysander Spooner's "No Treason" essays may elucidate further, but I think perhaps it would be a greater boon to civil order if we agree that "the people" are not necessarily a specific subset of people.

I enjoy how your response to Spooner's criticism of the Constitution is to declare that the Constitution permits these invasive acts.

Many argued that it was unconstitutional for decades before the civil war or 13th amendment (Lysander Spooner[1] most famously).

He was (to what degree of animosity I don't know, but I imagine friendly rivalry) a competitor of the more well-known Lysander Spooner.