Friday, March 14, 2014

Sanctions

Everybody spread the word
We're gonna have a celebration
All across the world
In every nation
--Madonna

Sanctions imposed by one country on another, such as trade embargos, quotas, or account freezes, are not peaceful. They are acts of aggression. They seek to alter behavior via government force.

Truly peaceful actions would be to open borders, deregulate, permit free trade. Removing government aggression, whatever its nature, facilitates voluntary cooperation and exchange between people.
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dgeorge12358 said...

Since there is no such thing as the right of some men to vote away the rights of others, and no such thing as the right of the government to seize the property of some men for the unearned benefit of others—the advocates and supporters of the welfare state are morally guilty of robbing their opponents, and the fact that the robbery is legalized makes it morally worse, not better.
~Ayn Rand, The Objectivist, June 1966

March 14, 2014 at 4:24 PM

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