Quote from: BitterTea on October 27, 2011, 01:23:30 PM

"As slaves, we are born into slavery and and if we do something that harms the slaveowner, he will defend himself. In the example of the slave who ran away, he ended up getting whipped. Opting out is not available as a choice on the plantation."

Hawker fails to grasp the concept of analogy in 3, 2, 1...

Either Hawker likes being a slave, or he is somehow benefitted by society giving him privileges (goods or services) which he acquired with little or any effort. If on the other hand his effort starts to exceed the benefits received, I'll bet he'd start complaining, or find a way to use the law to even the score (voting/lobbying).

"As soon as the injured classes have recovered their political rights, their first thought is not to abolish plunder (this would suppose them to possess enlightenment, which they cannot have), but to organize against the other classes, and to their own detriment, a system of reprisalsas if it was necessary, before the reign of justice arrives, that all should undergo a cruel retributionsome for their iniquity and some for their ignorance.

It would be impossible, therefore, to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than thisthe conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder." -- Frederic Bastiat.