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If it did, the highwayman has the same right to assume a man's consent to part with his purse, that any other man, or body of men, can have.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “If it did, the highwayman has the same right to assume a man's consent to part with his purse, that any other man, or…”
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He argues that a highwayman has no more right to assume consent for theft than a government does.
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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
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.
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.