If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
"Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert" was a writer, theorist, philosopher, and 19th century Individualism/individualist. A member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Herbert was a son of the Henry John George Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon/3rd Earl of Carnarvon. He was Member of Parliament for the two member Multi-member constituencies in the Parliament of the United Kingdom/constituency of Nottingham (UK Parliament constituency)/Nottingham between 1870–1874.
He promoted a Classical liberalism/classical liberal philosophy and took the ideas of Herbert Spencer a stage further by advocating Voluntary taxation/voluntary-funded government that uses force only in defence of individual liberty and private property. He is known as the originator of voluntaryism.
More Auberon Herbert on Wikipedia.There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
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