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And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been…”
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Spooner critiques the justifications for the doctrine of ignorance of the law as being fundamentally flawed.
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On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
They acknowledge it to be our unquestioned right and duty to kill them, if we can; that they expect nothing else, than that we will kill them, if we can; and that we are only fools and cowards, if we do not kill them, by any and every…
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For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.