Each the title and the substance of “Vices will not be Crimes” spotlight the distinctive position that morality and ethical precept had for Spooner among the many anarchists and libertarians of his day. For Spooner was the final of the good natural-rights theorists amongst anarchists, classical liberals, or ethical theorists typically; the doughty outdated inheritor of the pure law-natural rights custom of the seventeenth and 18th centuries was preventing a rearguard battle towards the collapse of the thought of a scientific or rational morality, or of the science of justice or of particular person proper.
Narrated by Michael Stack.
