The Law (Frederic Bastiat)
The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
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the law is a fantastic thing is a very short book. And his basic premise is very easy to construe. His premise is that if it's not moral for you, for you, as a person to do it, to do a thing, then that thing doesn't become moral, because you get a bunch of friends together and do it as a group.
Episode 170: Ones & Zeros (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:30:30 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Dave called it a fantastic, very short book. Its premise: if something is immoral for one person to do, it doesn't become moral when a group (or government) does it.
Not in the audio. Dave dated Bastiat to the 1870s-80s; The Law was actually published in 1850 (outside knowledge).
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Episode 126: Podcasting Power Rangers (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:53:01 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
if you haven't read the law, you must read the law. It is the moral substrate for every thing that every thought about government to me
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