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Shields Still Own Themselves

Walter Block’s Independent Review essay argues that a human shield—even a one-year-old without mens rea—is no longer innocent, because they causally contribute to a threat. On that reading, C may use defensive force that also kills B. He is not hiding the cost. He says libertarianism as a legal rule cannot justify some of what he would still do, and that a society which will not shoot through the shield cannot hold.

I take the other fork. Libertarianism is a moral theory first. Law is downstream. Initiation of force is the test, not causal contribution. B did not start this. Being grabbed does not reclassify your moral existence. Rothbard, in War, Peace, and the State (1963), said you may not commit violence against innocent third parties as a corollary of legitimate defense — even to save yourself. He reaffirmed it in 1984. I am with that passage.

This is about the theory. I have hosted Walter. I produced the audiobook of Defending the Undefendable II. If I have a bias, it runs toward him. He is too good at this for kid gloves.

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Walter E. Block, “Human shields, missiles, negative homesteading and libertarianism,” Ekonomia – Wroclaw Economic Review 25, no. 1 (2019). DOI: 10.19195/2084-4093.25.1.1

Walter E. Block, “Response to Jakobsson on Human Body Shields,” Libertarian Papers 2, art. 25 (2010).

Murray N. Rothbard, War, Peace, and the State (1963).

Murray N. Rothbard, “What’s Wrong with the Liberty Poll; or, How I Became a Libertarian,” Liberty 1, no. 6 (July 1988), p. 55.

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