Sunday Funnies: Organized Crime

The government sector is always looking for new recruits.

The government sector is always looking for new recruits.

This REALLY hit my funny bone. . . .but it’s sad that it’s so true. . .

This REALLY hit my funny bone. . . .but it’s sad that it’s so true. . .

Eventually this should be the default thought. If government, then criminal…

Eventually this should be the default thought. If government, then criminal…

“If government, then criminal…”

There is a very long, respectable(?) tradition of discussion about the purpose and role of government. All to no purpose? All a meaningless, futile, and the ultimate of off-base chasing after of the wind?

And what is government, by the way?

Is the forcing someone to behave properly ipso facto wrong?

And what do you mean by criminal? “Crime” has no meaning outside of Law and Government.

So then are we talking about morality?

What amount of pressure against evil-doers is in iteslf evil-doing?

“If government, then criminal…”

There is a very long, respectable(?) tradition of discussion about the purpose and role of government. All to no purpose? All a meaningless, futile, and the ultimate of off-base chasing after of the wind?

And what is government, by the way?

Is the forcing someone to behave properly ipso facto wrong?

And what do you mean by criminal? “Crime” has no meaning outside of Law and Government.

So then are we talking about morality?

What amount of pressure against evil-doers is in iteslf evil-doing?

@Jaired: There is long, respectable tradition of discussion regarding ethics of the use of force. The question for the libertarian is simply this: Can the institutionalization of a monopoly of force ever be moral? The anarcho-capitalist libertarian says that it cannot, hence the government is no different than mafia — “criminal gang writ large”.

@Jaired: There is long, respectable tradition of discussion regarding ethics of the use of force. The question for the libertarian is simply this: Can the institutionalization of a monopoly of force ever be moral? The anarcho-capitalist libertarian says that it cannot, hence the government is no different than mafia — “criminal gang writ large”.