{"id":13527,"date":"2012-02-12T11:36:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T16:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13527"},"modified":"2012-02-12T11:36:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T16:36:24","slug":"bryan-caplan-on-the-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/12\/bryan-caplan-on-the-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Caplan on &#8220;the stranger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post at <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/01\/the_stranger.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Econlog<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What do you call a man you never met?  A stranger.<\/p>\n<p>What are you morally forbidden to do <em>to<\/em> a stranger? You may not murder him. You may not attack him. You may not enslave him. Neither may you rob him.<\/p>\n<p>What are you morally required to do <em>for<\/em> a stranger? Not much. Even if he seems hungry and asks you for food, you&#8217;re probably within your rights to refuse. If you&#8217;ve ever been in a large city, you&#8217;ve refused to help the homeless on more than one occasion. And even if you think you <em>broke<\/em> your moral obligation to give, your moral obligation wasn&#8217;t strong enough to let the beggar justifiably mug you.<\/p>\n<p>Notice: These common-sense ethics regarding strangers, ethics that almost everyone admits, are unequivocally libertarian. Yes, you have an obligation to leave strangers alone, but charity is optional.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post at Econlog: What do you call a man you never met? A stranger. What are you morally forbidden to do to a stranger? You may not murder him. You may not attack him. You may not enslave him. Neither may you rob him. What are you morally required to do for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,9,10],"tags":[744,550],"class_list":["post-13527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","tag-charity","tag-libertarianism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13528,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions\/13528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}