And to penalize, therefore, the critic is not only to poison the moral foundations of the state, but to make it extremely difficult, when peace comes, for both government and the mass of citizens to resume the habits of normal decency.
Laski warns that punishing critics undermines the moral fabric of the state and hinders future decency.
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The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
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