Genius/Idiot—Journal Entries

Musings of an itinerant philosopher.

This is where you will find my old journal entries, in chronological order.

Posts from all my blogs are aggregated in the compendium.

Name: Jim Syler
Location: Murphysboro, Illinois, United States

Graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Economics.

Monday, December 29, 1997

Law


A law must be obeyable, enforceable, and should never remove the right to strive for life, liberty or property. You can take away these things, but not the right to fight for them. Penalties for noncompliance must be real and limited, so that if a person is willing to pay the consequences, he is welcome to break the law. The purpose of law is to ensure the maximum personal freedom of all subject to that law. Morality is not set by law.

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