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When, Then, Does Plunder Stop? It Stops When It Becomes More Painful And More Dangerous Than Labor.

Trade Barriers Constitute Isolation; Isolation Gives Rise To Hatred, Hatred To War, And War To Invasion.

Now Since Man Is Naturally Inclined To Avoid Pain - And Since Labor Is Pain In Itself - It Follows That Men Will Resort To Plunder Whenever Plunder Is Easier Than Work. History Shows This Quite Clearly. And Under These Conditions, Neither Religion Nor Morality Can Stop It. When, Then, Does Plunder Stop? It Stops When It Becomes More Painful And More Dangerous Than Labor. It Is Evident, Then, That The Proper Purpose Of Law Is To Use The Power Of Its Collective Force To Stop This Fatal Tendency To Plunder Instead Of To Work. All The Measures Of The Law Should Protect Property And Punish Plunder.

The Sort Of Dependence That Results From Exchange, I.e., From Commercial Transactions, Is A Reciprocal Dependence. We Cannot Be Dependent Upon A Foreigner Without His Being Dependent On Us. Now, This Is What Constitutes The Very Essence Of Society. To Sever Natural Interrelations Is Not To Make Oneself Independent, But To Isolate Oneself Completely.

Let Us First Of All Frugality In Government-peace And Freedom We Will Have As A Bonus.