To: robertpaulsen
But what are we to do when virtue goes away When virtue goes away, evil people use government to enforce their own wishes. Good people must then take the government back and shrink it down to its proper role (keeping the peace, enforcing contracts, resolving disputes between competing property-rights claims).
54 posted on
02/24/2005 7:20:27 AM PST by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: steve-b
To: steve-b
When virtue goes away, evil people use government to enforce their own wishes. Good people must then take the government back and shrink it down to its proper role (keeping the peace, enforcing contracts, resolving disputes between competing property-rights claims). Excellent post. Authoritarians will hate it and attack it, but it's correct. You will be able to judge just how on the mark it is by the personalities who show up to attack it.
Many of them will be former drug users and criminals who have found a bizarre form of "religion" in opposing freedom.
77 posted on
02/24/2005 7:58:32 AM PST by
Protagoras
(Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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