Short Note on Efficiency
I saw this quote at “The liberty Papers” and couldn’t resist adopting it
An elephant. A mouse built to government specifications.
Robert Heinlein, “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long”
But it also made me thinking about the nature of my resistance to government involvement in every aspect of our life. Is the government inherent inefficiency is the main reason? The answer for this question is obviously not. My belief is that it is not moral for a society to limit the freedom of each members for anything else but protecting human rights.
It seems like we, libertarians and alike, getting too much into the efficiency argument and being mistaken as conservatives. We should keep arguing about the efficiency of free society only to demonstrate that moral isn’t contradict efficiency, on the contrary it promote it. However even if someone will prove that free society is less efficient economically than government regulated society I will still be against it.
The quote, however, is wonderful.
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I agree with you. My point is that sometimes we, or should I say I, rap in the argument of the inefficiency instead of being focused on the moral aspect.
More to my point - even if the government with use the money efficiently it will be immoral. The fact that it was collected at gunpoint, regardless how efficiently it is being used, is the immoral action - and that is what we need to be focus at.
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