https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/voluntary-sharia-law-totalitarianism/

If a group of Muslims got together and formed a covenant community in an anarcho-capitalist world complete with Sharia law, stoning of adulterers and homosexuals, mandatory wearing of burqas for women, and a whole lot of other rules and laws libertarians oppose, would it be a libertarian community? After all, everyone consented to be ruled by this code? Or does libertarianism transcend such covenants? In other words, covenant communities must conform with the non-aggression principle?

Yes, of course this would be compatible with libertarianism. It sounds like voluntary sado-masochism. I do discuss this sort of thing in my book Defending I, the chapter dealing with “Yelling ‘Fire!’ in a Crowded Theater.”

2:33 am on October 12, 2016

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