Should the Law Prohibit Paying Ransom to Kidnappers? Kidnapping|Binding Contracts|Aleinability of Life

Abstract

While most people might answer the question in the affirmative, such a law ends up punishing the victim instead of the kidnapper. Drawing from libertarian philosphy it is shown that such laws also fail to reduce kidnapping for profit and thus are not only offensive to the nature of justice but cannot achieve the aim for which they were originally enacted.