On the record
It considers him simply as so much senseless war material, to be consumed, expended, and destroyed for the maintenance of its power.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “It considers him simply as so much senseless war material, to be consumed, expended, and destroyed for the maintenance…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner argues that the government views individuals as expendable resources in warfare.
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On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.