There is NOTHING that government does that a natural law, private property, for profit based society can not do better. And that is up to and including the provision of protective (cops) and adjudicative (courts) service. — jtl, 419

There is NOTHING that government does that a natural law, private property based society can not do better. And that is up to and including the provision of protective (cops) and adjudicative (courts) service. — jtl, 419

State or Private Law Society on Dealing With Corona

By Hans-Hermann Hoppe via LewRockwell.com

Thomas Jacob: Professor Hoppe, you are known as a critic of the state and of political centralization. Doesn’t the coronavirus prove that central states and central government regulations are necessary?

On the contrary.

Of course, the various central states and international organizations, such as the EU or the WHO, have tried to use the COVID-19 pandemic to their own advantage, i.e., to expand their power over their respective subjects; to try out how far one can go with ordering other people around in the face of an initially vague and then systematically dramatized danger of a global epidemic. And…

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