Minority Report  Slavery and Natural Rights  Libertarians are
often disgusted by the state precisely because the state’s power
is predicated on aggression.  But if pressed to say what statist
policies they ﬁnd most disgusting, the libertarians throughout
history will tend to focus their just vitriol on two evils in
particular: slavery and war.  First, we will analyse why slavery
is unjust, and second, we will apply our analysis to the 2002
libertarian science ﬁction ﬁlm Minority Report.  Slavery in the
1800s  Virtually everyone reading this probably agrees that
slavery is evil.  And it is.  But it is not enough simply to say
something is evil.  When one rejects an institution, one ought
to have a rational explanation for one’s rejection.  Thus, let
us look to the abolitionists, to see what led them to reject
slavery.  In these united states, self-ownership was the
rallying cry of the nineteenth-century abolitionists.  While the
ﬁrst individual I know of to promote the concept of self-
ownership was John Locke,