Another way of saying this is that any government with the power to take an atheist's money and give it to my church is also a government with the power to take my money and give it to Planned Parenthood. When we use force to restrict others' liberty, we endanger our own.
The State is the group within society that claims for itself the exclusive right to rule everyone under a special set of laws that permit it to do to others what everyone else is rightly prohibited from doing, namely aggressing against person and property.
From Part IV of Defending the Undefendable, “Outlaw.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.
From Part VI of Defending the Undefendable, “Business and Trade.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.
F. A. Hayek’s Commentary in Walter Block’s Defending the Undefendable. Read by Jeff Riggenbach.
From Part III of Defending the Undefendable, “Free Speech.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.
