Re: A Critique of Rothbardian Natural Rights (sorta long)
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What if it's a helicopter, meant to intimidate the owner into selling their land to the local monopolist?
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That would seem pretty coercive to me (and not that realistic).
In any case, nothing brought up in this article seems that compelling to me. Of course people are going to have different ideas of what affects their property, these all seem like trivial disputes that would arise between individual property owners that could be settled by arbitration. I think that would be the whole purpose of arbitration in the frist place, to settle these "grey area"
disputes.
I know the article was about absolute property rights, but I wouldn't consider it too damning if the best argument someone can come up with against this idea is that there is a 1 in 1 x 10^10 chance that a plane flying overhead might crash into your property therefore your rights aren't absolute!
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