"[I]f Jones finds that his property is being stolen by Smith, Jones has the right to repel him and try to catch him, but Jones has no right to repel him by bombing a building and murdering innocent people or to catch him by spraying machine gun fire into an innocent crowd. If he does this, he is as much (or more) a criminal aggressor as Smith is...
...In fact if Smith's crime was theft, and Jones should use conscription to catch him, or should kill innocent people in the pursuit, then Jones becomes more of a criminal than Smith, for such crimes against another person as enslavement and murder are surely far worse than theft...
...War, then, even a just defensive war, is only proper when the exercise of violence is rigorously limited to the individual criminals themselves. We may judge for ourselves how many wars or conflicts in history have met this criterion." - Murray Rothbard, ***The Ethics of Liberty*** (1998) p. 189-190 https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Ethics%20of%20Liberty%2020191108.pdf
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...In fact if Smith's crime was theft, and Jones should use conscription to catch him, or should kill innocent people in the pursuit, then Jones becomes more of a criminal than Smith, for such crimes against another person as enslavement and murder are surely far worse than theft...
...War, then, even a just defensive war, is only proper when the exercise of violence is rigorously limited to the individual criminals themselves. We may judge for ourselves how many wars or conflicts in history have met this criterion." - Murray Rothbard, ***The Ethics of Liberty*** (1998) p. 189-190 https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Ethics%20of%20Liberty%2020191108.pdf
#Agorism #Agorist #AnCap #Liberty #Libertarian #Antistate #Antiwar #Pacifism #LeoTolstoy #Tolstoy #NAP #Praxeology #Quotestr
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