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1. Locke (1690) was not a Lockean libertarian. For he disallowed appropriation that would lead to spoilage, he rejected the right of voluntary self-enslavement, and he held that one has a duty to provide the means of subsistence to those unable to provide for themselves.
2. Nozick (1974, pp. 3-148) presents a highly hypothetical, and highly controversial, scenario describing how one could come to have such an enforceable obligation to pay for basic police services.
3. For helpful comments, I thank Brad Hooker, Thomas Pogge, Hillel Steiner, and Nic Tideman.
First published: September 5, 2002
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