It was the best of the laws, it was the worst of the laws, it was built on freedom, it was built on power, it was the spontaneous order of organic social institutions, it was the deliberate order of ideology and coercion, it was a stream of jurisprudence guiding us to justice, it was a tangle of statutes pushing us to restriction. In short, law,
An essay by Hans-Hermann Hoppe explains that for Robinson Crusoe, an isolated castaway, “the question concerning rules of orderly human conduct,” of social cooperation, “simply not arise,” but when “Friday, arrives on the island,” Crusoe, for the first time, must interact with others, either competing or cooperating for scarce resources. As
Era la mejor de las leyes, era la peor de las leyes, estaba construida sobre la libertad, estaba construida sobre el poder, era el orden espontáneo de las instituciones sociales orgánicas, era el orden deliberado de la ideología y la coerción, era una corriente de jurisprudencia que nos guiaba a la justicia, era una maraña de estatutos que nos
Un ensayo de Hans-Hermann Hoppe explica que para Robinson Crusoe, un náufrago aislado, «la cuestión relativa a las reglas de la conducta humana ordenada», de la cooperación social, «simplemente no se plantea», pero cuando «Viernes, llega a la isla», Crusoe, por primera vez, debe interactuar con otros, compitiendo o cooperando por los escasos
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