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The (Postal) Empire Strikes Back
by Wilton D. Alston
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With kudos to Marc Stevens for originally using this metaphor, delivering any service at the barrel of a gun – which is how all government services are delivered – is immoral. (It doesn’t matter if the service is delivered directly by a government agency, or by an agency that operates under government authority and/or heavy regulation.) This issue is morally clear no matter how much anyone likes that service, or how many people ostensibly benefit from that service, or how widespread that service is, or how long that service has existed.
The bottom line is: If your service is so great, you should be willing to deliver it voluntarily, without government protection or legal requirement. Furthermore, the fact that something “good” comes of your initial act of aggression is irrelevant.
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I like this formulation!
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