Obsessed With Making The Score "Fair"
“So long as personal safety was insured, so long as labor was free, and the fruits of labor secured against all unjust attacks, no one would have any difficulties to contend with in the State. When prosperous, we should not, it is true, have to thank the State for our success; but when unfortunate, we should no more think of taxing it with our disasters than our peasants think of attributing to it the arrival of hail or of frost” (The Law by Frédéric Bastiat, 2007, p3-4).
The State has too much power. You can tell because we talk about it too much. When things go well, we praise a certain politician’s leadership. When things go poorly, we curse another politicians’s failings.
If the State protected our personal safety, our freedom to labor, and the fruits of that labor, everything else would fall into place. If the State protected our God-given rights of life, liberty, and property, then the State would simply be a backdrop.
We wouldn’t need to thank the State when things go well; we wouldn’t need to blame the State when things go poorly.
What if the referees simply made sure both teams played according to rules? Instead of twisting the rules in an obsession to make sure the scores were “fair.”
What do you think?
Joseph