Robert Davison said: “I write that about government, because government is a requirement.”
I am not aware of any moral law that states government is a requirement. I am also not aware of any government that is (or was) moral. A “government that forbids the initiation of force and reserves to itself retaliatory force leavened by an objective body of law” does not exist and cannot exist. Why? Because co-called “objective law” will always be forced into interpretation by men with guns. Men with guns have no reason to be objective. There’s only one way to force a man with a gun to be objective – when his opponent (or his opponent’s delegate) has a gun. Remember John Galt’s words: “[f]orce and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”
In other words, allow government to own guns and morality, by default, ends. All of our Founding Fathers understood this (hence, the Second Amendment, which was SPECIFICALLY to hold back government from a man’s home/property). If you don’t allow government to own guns, there is no other purpose of government.
The free market will always produce the better moral result – no matter what situation.
- B.
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