Mises on Laws

Subject: Mises on Laws Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:09 pm

Some of the sillier things to come out of Mises:

Ludwig von Mises

The State is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws.

It is the social function of the laws to curb the arbitrariness of the police. The rule of law restricts the arbitrariness of the officers as much as possible. It strictly limits their discretion and thus assigns to the citizens a sphere in which they are free to act without being frustrated by government interference.

What the fuck was he thinking!?!

Subject: Re: Mises on Laws Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:35 pm

CovOps wrote:: One of the sillier things to come out of Mises:

Ludwig von Mises

The State is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws.

But laws are little more than the (written) "discretion of some men."

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:lol: Have "laws" fulfilled this "social function"? And since when was enforcement of "laws" not government interference?

Mises on Laws

Mises on Laws

Anarcho-Capitalist Categorical Imperatives

Via AnCaps: Law & Enforced Unnatural Order