Those who want you to doubt that anarchy (self-ownership and individual responsibility) is the best, most moral, and ethical way to live among others are asking you to accept that theft, aggression, superstition, and slavery are perhaps better.
"Place on top of your warhead and detonate for 2 picoseconds at..."
The "Classical Liberal" stance is that the sole purpose of government is to defend and protect the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property.
Ha ha!
Then can I claim that the sole purpose of a hydrogen bomb is to bake cakes? Or that the sole purpose of a rabbit is to discover and describe the Grand Unified Theory?
Because those claims are no more absurd or unreasonable.
The sole purpose of government is to defend and protect the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property in the same sense that the sole purpose of any wiseguy's collection of your shop's monthly extortion payment is to defend and protect your shop from mysteriously burning down in the middle of the night.
Precisely.
ReplyDeleteThe sole purpose of government is to defend and protect the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property in the same sense that the sole purpose of any wiseguy's collection of your shop's monthly extortion payment is to defend and protect your shop from mysteriously burning down in the middle of the night.