Lysander Spooner: “Even if a change for the better actually comes, t cmes too late…”

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Even if a change for the better actually comes, t cmes too late, because it comes only after more or less injustice has been irreparably done.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that even if improvements occur, they often come too late to prevent harm caused by previous injustices.

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It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

Lysander Spooner: “Even if a change for the better actually comes, t cmes too late, because it comes only after more or less injustice has…”