I don’t care about one individual’s life. The only proper form of government is that which respects and upholds natural law, stands out of the way of people’s individual liberties (without respect to their effects upon others of the nation), and which jealously guards the nation against foreign interference and domestic enslavement.
A proper government exists only to protect “laws” which are part of natural human interaction in the first place. It may well codify them in writing, but only to ensure they are not ✡misunderstood.✡
An idealist then? No such government has ever existed in recorded human history. Maybe for brief periods under just sovereigns you'd get something approaching. Natural human interaction makes for a life that is nasty, brutish and short.
Rousseau was a hypocritical idiot who abandoned his own children.
That’s as may be, but I fail to see what it has to do with the topic of minarchism.
"...I fail to see..."
That's ultimately the problem with libertarianism in a nutshell.
I don’t care about one individual’s life. The only proper form of government is that which respects and upholds natural law, stands out of the way of people’s individual liberties (without respect to their effects upon others of the nation), and which jealously guards the nation against foreign interference and domestic enslavement.
A proper government exists only to protect “laws” which are part of natural human interaction in the first place. It may well codify them in writing, but only to ensure they are not ✡misunderstood.✡
An idealist then? No such government has ever existed in recorded human history. Maybe for brief periods under just sovereigns you'd get something approaching. Natural human interaction makes for a life that is nasty, brutish and short.