%0 Journal Article
%T Why Libertarians Should Reject Positive Rights
%A Joshua Katz
%J Libertarian Papers
%D 2009
%I Ludwig von Mises Institute
%X Maloberti, in ¡°Why Libertarians Should Accept Positive Rights¡± argues that, as normally presented, libertarianism entails anarchism. He argues that libertarians should, therefore, accept a limited form of positive rights, which will allow for the creation of a libertarian government. In this paper, it is argued that the entailment of anarchism is not a problem for libertarianism, and that the form of positive rights endorsed by Maloberti is unfounded, ill-defined, and inconsistent with libertarian notions of individual freedom. It is further argued that Maloberti¡¯s positive rights, as defined in his paper, cannot withstand the analysis prompted by Austrian value theory.
%K libertarianism
%K positive rights
%U http://libertarianpapers.org/2009/6-katz-positive-rights/