"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Right to Ignore the State
Submitted by Mike Powers on Mon, 2010-08-16 03:00
Herbert Spencer's timeless essay.
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"Have we not seen that human happiness is the Divine will — that only by exercising our faculties is this happiness obtainable — and that it is impossible to exercise them without freedom? And if this freedom for the exercise of faculties is a condition without which the Divine will cannot be fulfilled, the preservation of it is, by our objector's own showing, a duty."
If it is impossible to exercise faculties (volition) without freedom, then it follows that freedom is life, whereas coercion is death. Yeah. I'll buy that.