Does property come "attached to" rights-holders? Should doctors be allowed to sell recreational heart surgery to people who don't need it? Can you starve someone to death without violating any rights?

Here’s the recording for the twentieth session of our Substack philosophy class for paid subscribers. We read the first two chunks of Ch. 8 of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia (“Equality” and “Equality of Opportunity*”).* We’ll be reading the next chunk (“Self-Esteem and Envy”) for next time, though we might or might not get a chance to talk about it because I want to start with the free will cliffhanger we left hanging before and (I hope) make next Tuesday mostly discussion to make up for today ending up being all lecture. Oh, and here’s that “Puzzles for Libertarians” Current Affairs article I mentioned today!

Also, remember that this and all the previous class recordings so far can be found here.

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