Just received the below from a totally different channel. It's in the air.
1722 seems to be missing a word, perhaps "possessions"?
1859 omits "or for the restitution of a damage caused by him to another"
otherwise we're saying once a crime (e.g. of theft) has occurred, no
restitution is permitted in natural law, which I would (hopefully
obviously) disagree with.
:
300s BC Epicurus
Natural Justice is a symbol or expression of usefulness, to
prevent one person from harming or being harmed by another.
900s Islamic Theologians
Man can rationally know that man has a right to life and property.
1689 John Locke
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in
his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
1682 Samuel von Pufendorf
Among the absolute duties of anybody to anybody, the first place
belongs to this one: let no one injure another. For this is the
broadest of all duties, embracing all men as such.
1722 William Wollaston
No man can have the right to begin to interrupt the happiness of
another yet every man has a right to defend himself and his
against violence
1790 Mary Wollstonecraft
The birthright of man is such a degree of liberty, civil and
religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other
individual
1816 Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I
do not add within the limits of the law because law is often but
the tyrants will, and always so when it violates the rights of
the individual.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal
rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to
restrain him.
1851 Herbert Spencer
Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he
infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
1859 John Stuart Mill
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised
over a member of a civilized community, against his will, is to
prevent harm to others.
1961 Ayn Rand
The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of
physical force from social relationships
1963 Murray Rothbard
No one may threaten or commit violence (aggress) against another
mans person or property. Violence may be employed only against
the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively
against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no
violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the
fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of
libertarian theory.
L. Neil Smith
No one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force
against another human being, nor to delegate its initiation.
Walter Block
It shall be legal for anyone to do anything he wants, provided
only that he not initiate (or threaten) violence against the
person or legitimately owned property of another.
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