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Lysander Spooner: To enforce any other law, to the extent of taking a man's goods, rights, or person, would be making some of the parties…

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To enforce any other law, to the extent of taking a man's goods, rights, or person, would be making some of the parties to the association accomplices in what they regard as acts of injustice.
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Lysander Spooner

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He warns against enforcing laws that some view as unjust, as it implicates them in wrongdoing.

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