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Jeff Berwick in Acapulco, Mexico, talks with Stefan Kinsella in Houston, Texas     Topics include:    

• Stephan explains how he became an anarchist and some of the books that pointed him in the right direction including
• The Fountainhead 
• Stephan is a practicing attorney that applies his legal knowledge with his libertarian philosophy
• He believes a free law society will only come about if a majority of people agree in libertarian principles
• Law is defined as a concrete body of rules that permits a group of people that want to be able to cooperate to be able to do so
• Jeff asks if it is necessary for everyone to agree with libertarian philosophy in order to have a free society 
• Stephan thinks that a majority of people already have libertarian principles but have not been educated correctly in constancy
• He is more optimistic that most because he sees more people not accepting central planning than in the past
• Jeff thinks that there could be a backlash against free market ideas during a financial collapse where the people believe capitalism is to blame
• Stephan hopes that people will slowly find the state to be irrelevant and this will bring about a free society
• Jeff thinks that there will be a financial collapse that will make this transition unpredictable
• Stephan is an expert in libertarian Intellectual Property theory
• He explains the principles of property law
• What most people think is law today is not what law would be based on in a libertarian society
• Stephan explains the problem with legal and economic positivism 
• The proper libertarian view is to be opposed to making law through legislation
• The problem with intellectual property is that you are able to use the force of the government against someone who has not aggressed against you
• Stephan explains the problems with the utilitarian Intellectual property justification
• The intellectual property system forces everyone to participate even if they don’t agree with it