That is the philosophy of the hunter who makes a kill in a hard winter and does not want to share it with the tribe
Nonsense. I'm supporting charity, supporting such sharing. I'm arguing against taking, which is a very different thing from sharing.
Compassion and voluntary sharing are good things which I totally support, theft by force not so much either on practical or moral grounds.
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“From a libertarian perspective, your generosity is reflected in what you do with your own money, not in what you do with other people’s money.”
- Arnold Kling
"There are, though, many especially those greedy for renown and glory, who steal from one group the very money they lavish upon another. They think that they will appear beneficent towards their friends if they enrich them by any method whatsoever. But that is so far from being a duty that in fact nothing could be more opposed to duty. We should therefore see that the liberality we exercise in assisting our friends does not harm anyone. Consequently, the transference of money by Lucius Sulla and Gaius Caesar from its lawful owners to others ought not to be seen as liberal: nothing is liberal if it is not also just."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, ON DUTIES, Bk.1. XIV. 43
"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State."
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel, French philosopher and co-founder of the Mont Pelerin Society.
"The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity."
-Henry Hazlitt
"The alleged goal of reducing economic inequality is trumpeted by people who want to strengthen inequality of political power."
- Gordon Wood, "Empire of Liberty" |
