Government's
job is to protect rights
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Man's state in nature, where all men are allowed complete
discretion in the use of force, according to the laws of
the jungle, is nothing more than a state of anarchy -- perpetual civil
war and gang warfare. To place the retaliatory use of force under objective legal
control -- under clearly defined laws that are logically based on the principle of rights -- a
society of men delegate
to government, their right to retaliate against those who initiate
force. |
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