I know, that’s a serious double entendre, but if you’re interested, you can probably read Robert LeFevre’s “The Nature of Man and His Government” in an hour or so. LeFevre cites the historical progress of government everywhere, which has been to continually expand the scope of its power – inching further and further from its stated responsibility of protection and arbitration, and closer to inevitable agression and oppression. Government, like a gun, is not immoral – in fact neither have any moral aspect whatsoever. Government has no life until wielded by the hands of men, but once brought to life, sets upon a path of perpetual aggrandizement. LeFevre goes on to argue that historically speaking, it is where government has aimed at the “common good” that it has been the most destructive and the most oppressive.
Next up: Henry Grady Weaver’s “The Mainspring of Human Progress.