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Stoic Joker:
as a web page:
http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm
-rxantos (May 17, 2011, 01:40 PM)
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Thanks for the link - I Just love this part:
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain -- and since labor is pain in itself -- it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.

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Plunder stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

Now that's beautifully simple and quite clear ... I think I'll have it engraved on my gun.  :D

Renegade:
as a web page:
http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm
-rxantos (May 17, 2011, 01:40 PM)
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Thanks for the link - I Just love this part:
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain -- and since labor is pain in itself -- it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.

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Plunder stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

Now that's beautifully simple and quite clear ... I think I'll have it engraved on my gun.  :D
-Stoic Joker (May 17, 2011, 02:44 PM)
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I have a very real problem with this:

All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.
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Law should protect PEOPLE. That attitude is the one that lets lawyers run rampant protecting "property" through silly patents and whatnot.

But I do like the general sentiment in that quote. I've not had time to read the page itself yet, but it sounds like a very good read.

Stoic Joker:
I have a very real problem with this:

All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.
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Law should protect PEOPLE. That attitude is the one that lets lawyers run rampant protecting "property" through silly patents and whatnot.-Renegade (May 17, 2011, 08:34 PM)
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Quite true, but he covers that rather well earlier on. Including the lawyers part.

Renegade:
I have a very real problem with this:

All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.
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Law should protect PEOPLE. That attitude is the one that lets lawyers run rampant protecting "property" through silly patents and whatnot.-Renegade (May 17, 2011, 08:34 PM)
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Quite true, but he covers that rather well earlier on. Including the lawyers part.
-Stoic Joker (May 17, 2011, 09:16 PM)
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Get back to development... Read very tempting tidbit...

Man... You're making this decision harder & harder~! :)

Bookmarked -- I'll get back to it when I can sit, relax, and really read it well.

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