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# | # [[barking cat]] fallacy: to want a government, but respecting individual rights (which matches neither the common definition of what a State is, nor any extant or historical state); | ||
# | # [[No true Scotsman]] fallacy: claim that any other government is not a true government [http://www.propertyrightsmatter.com/well-no-proper-statesmen/][https://mises.org/blog/when-you-have-property-rights-you-don%E2%80%99t-need-religious-freedom#comment-2687264804] (combined with the previous fallacy: claim that any non-barking cat is not a ''true'' cat); | ||
# | # [[reverse straw man]] fallacy: hitherto proceed to treat real, existing governments as if they matched that defition, whereas they don't and ''can't'' (in other words: ask for a barking-cat, pretend that any non-barking-cat is not a cat, but then accept an actual cat and act is if it were indeed barking) | ||
: | : But by what magic does one expect a violent monopoly to all of a sudden do the opposite of what constitutes its founding principle, the condition of its survival, and the interest of its agents? | ||
::[[François-René Rideau]], [http://fare.livejournal.com/171147.html Bastiat était-il libéral? Anarchisme et minarchisme] | ::[[François-René Rideau]], [http://fare.livejournal.com/171147.html Bastiat était-il libéral? Anarchisme et minarchisme] | ||
[[fr: État digne de ce nom]] | [[fr: État digne de ce nom]] | ||
[[category: Fallacies]] | [[category: Fallacies]] | ||
Revision as of 05:59, 28 December 2017
The anti-concept of “proper government” or “proper state” is a triple fallacy used by Rand and the randroids in order to hide their obvious lack of a theory of the state -- a theory explaining what a state is, how it appears historically, and above all else, what determines its territory.
- The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man’s self-defense, and, as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of force. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.
- A properly functioning government, one whose purpose is to protect individual rights against attack
- Peter Schwartz, “Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty” in The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought, 1988.
Triple fallacy:
- barking cat fallacy: to want a government, but respecting individual rights (which matches neither the common definition of what a State is, nor any extant or historical state);
- No true Scotsman fallacy: claim that any other government is not a true government [2][3] (combined with the previous fallacy: claim that any non-barking cat is not a true cat);
- reverse straw man fallacy: hitherto proceed to treat real, existing governments as if they matched that defition, whereas they don't and can't (in other words: ask for a barking-cat, pretend that any non-barking-cat is not a cat, but then accept an actual cat and act is if it were indeed barking)
- But by what magic does one expect a violent monopoly to all of a sudden do the opposite of what constitutes its founding principle, the condition of its survival, and the interest of its agents?
