Direito e Liberdade

"Formerly we suffered from crimes;
now we suffer from laws."
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

"More laws, less justice"
Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 AC

"Life, liberty and property do not exist because men made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
Frederic Bastiat

“[T]he mere fact of legislation—of democratic law-making—increases the degree of uncertainty. Rather than being immutable and hence predictable, law becomes increasingly flexible and unpredictable. What is right and wrong today may not be so tomorrow. The future is thus rendered more haphazard. Consequently, all around time preferences degrees will rise, consumption and short-term orientation will be stimulated, and at the same time the respect for all laws will be systematically undermined and crime promoted (for if there is no immutable standard of right , then there is also no firm definition of crime ).”

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "Time Preference, Government, and the Process of De-Civilization from Monarchy to Democracy," 5 J. des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines (1994): 340.

“[I]t is perfectly possible, in theory and historically, to have efficient and courteous police, competent and learned judges, and a body of systematic and socially accepted law—and none of these things being furnished by a coercive government.”
Murray N. Rothbard, For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (reprint ed. 1985): 234.”

“[L]ife for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stroke for stroke.”
Exodus 21:23-25, in God, The Jerusalem Bible: Reader's Edition (1968). See also Deuteronomy 19:21; Leviticus 24:17-21.

Comentário: o Direito à Propriedade (à sua aquisição por Homesteading ou contrato) e o Direito à Legítima Defesa e Restituição, no caso de violação deste direito, é (ou deve ser) a base de todo o Direito Natural. Hoje em dia, a "justiça" não cumpre Direito à Restituição, uma vez que raramente os criminosos restituem os danos causados, sendo pelo contrário, sustentados pelos impostos das vítimas, incluindo o financiamento do seu programa de "reabilitação" social. Os criminosos deviam trabalhar a favor da(s) vítima(s) até à restituição ser cumprida (ou até o dobro do valor), o que por si só já era um óptimo programa de "reabilitação".