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otterleyyesterday at 3:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

Freedom to do what, exactly? You realize that the extreme opposite of laws and restrictions meant to maintain a working social order is anarchy, right?


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co_king_5yesterday at 3:43 PM

> Freedom to do what, exactly?

You may be failing to comprehend the concept of "freedom".

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mothballedyesterday at 4:05 PM

The opposite of something like Bastiat's ideal of the law is something more like the law of tyranny or law of the plunderer. Anarchy I place somewhere closer to the middle -- better than the law of a tyrant because at least under anarchy the law of the tyrant isn't legitimized even if it still might be enforced by might.