If anything belongs to us, reason would tell us that the thing we enter into and leave this world with—our body— belongs to each of us. Everything we do, our thoughts, our speech, our movements, and all physical action, come from our bodies. Therefore, having control over our bodies is one of the most fundamental rights we can possess. In The Libertarian Manifesto, Professor Murray Rothbard argues: The case against outlawing narcotic and hallucinogenic drugs is far weaker than the case against Prohibition, an experiment which the grisly era of the 1920s has hopefully discredited for all time. For while narcotics are undoubtedly more harmful than is alcohol, the latter can also be harmful, and outlawing something because it may harm the user leads straight down the logical garden path to our totalitarian cage, where people are prohibited from eating candy and are forced to eat yogurt “for their own good.”1 This totalitarian cage Rothbard described is already looming on the horizon.
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