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Certainly not because they have such an intense compassion for their own laborers, that they are willing to rob everybody else, rich and poor, for their benefit.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Certainly not because they have such an intense compassion for their own laborers, that they are willing to rob…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner argues that employers do not advocate for protection out of compassion for workers.
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In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not tell us that they have established infallible supreme courts, to whom they refer all questions as to the legality of their acts, and that they do nothing that is not sanctioned by these courts.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.