Law is force.
This principle alone is important to understand. Why? Because it explains why law should not compel (or force) people to contribute to any number of social causes and issues. The law should only force the ability for everyone to enjoy life, liberty, and property.
Currently, the law compels us to participate in a myriad of unconstitutional programs that manipulate the free market, demotivate people to work hard, and tax us to do such.
What does the law force you to do?
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-M.
Walter Block frequently refers to law as "the badge and the gun". H. Verlan Andersen, a great LDS political scientist and General Authority, very clearly in all of his books makes the distinction that law is predicated purely upon compulsion and force. Ezra Taft Benson is emphatic on this point as well. As such, true law, righteously administered, is a constant and important theme throughout the writings of church leaders as unrighteous dominion is an easy trap to fall into. There are few greater sins than compelling others to commit sin. That is the great and cunning plan of the devil. He has been exceedingly diligent in deceiving the whole world and currently is grasping the chains of bondage that we have chosen to place upon ourselves and laughing uproariously. He has very little work to do as the human family, including most of the members of God's church, gleefully lash out under the cover of "law" to force others to do our bidding.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Gary North, not Walter. Although I think Walter agrees with him.
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