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Posted by adam.dada on February 22nd, 2007
Another excellent post by Christian Anarcho-Capitalist blogged VoiceofJohn, titled Judge Not. From their post:
Do Christians have the right to govern? We’ve already seen that they do not. We’ve also seen that governing other people is immoral unless they agree to participate, and that restricting people’s liberty like this is bad for the prosperity of society, because it’s bad economics. (Basically it’s socialism, even if you like to call it “democracy” and pretend it is “liberty.”)
But people have the right to establish whatever voluntary associations they want. The members of those associations may delegate their authority to those associations. So, they may give or loan some of their property to the group. They may empower the group to act in their defense. They may not legitimately have the group take what doesn’t belong to its members, or use force against non-members for purposes other than defense of rights. (If they do, they have founded a criminal organization, like the Mafia, even though (like the Mafia) the group may go around telling everybody that it is “protecting them” and so they need to “pay up,” calling itself “the state” to pretend it is something other than a criminal organization.)