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Suggestion: Expand quote for "we are the government."

Open Buddybenj opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

When the person says that we are the government, the website displays a Rothbard quote. I suggest that the website expand the quote to also include this excerpt from the previous paragraph:

If "we are the government," then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also "voluntary" on the part of the individual concerned. [...] Under this reasoning, any Jews murdered by the Nazi government were not murdered; instead, they must have "committed suicide," since they were the government (which was democratically chosen), and, therefore, anything the government did to them was voluntary on their part.

This part of his argument strikes me as more convincing and relevant than the hypothetical example of 70% of people murdering the remaining 30%.

Buddybenj avatar Apr 24 '17 21:04 Buddybenj