The Law, Bastiat — Heroes of Liberty: Freedom Folio : 無料・フリー素材/写真
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| 説明 | In the second entry of our series on great books, The Law picks up where Second Treatise left off, recognizing the natural choices people have if left free from violation, and the sole function of society to enhance that freedom, not violate it.Bastiat wrote at a time when the state in Europe was still based on feudal corporatism and monopoly over property. The state there had begun to transit from using divine right to justify its tyranny, to using "we know best" with appeals to false philanthropy to do so, just as it does today.His response was to point out that the state's actions, not its pretty words, define it, that it is indeed just plundering society for the profit of the politicians and their cronies."Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy." Full text of The Law: bastiat.org/en/the_law.html"In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder — is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?" "The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protected and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen."Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it." "It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.""When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.""But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply... See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.""The state is a great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.""It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder."The Law, Frederic Bastiat, 1850In The Law, Frédéric Bastiat builds on Locke's Second Treatise 175 years earlier, warning that when the state betrays its role of protecting natural rights, it becomes the source of the very evil it is supposed to prevent, pillaging the people it could only legitimately defend.• Identifies the evil of Legal Plunder by the state, when bureaucrats act to enrich themselves or others through taxes and regulations.○"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law."• Points out that the state is not automatically the same as society, and in fact it can parasitize the community, whenever it claims entire services or industries for its own monopoly, enriching politicians and cronies at the cost of social well-being."But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply... See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime." |
| 撮影日 | 2019-06-26 23:31:20 |
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