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[–] Tallest_Skil 2 points 13 points (+15|-2) ago 

It's an argument?

If you cared about people, you'd stay out of their way

Reminds me of Bastiat.

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than mankind?

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[–] KoKansei 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

Bastiat was such a boss. He knew that collectivist dystopia was coming and made tons of salient points on the subject before nearly anyone else understood what was going on.

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[–] lucifirius 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Somebody say Bastiat!?


But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.

Frederic Bastiat, The Law

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html