Robert Higgs:
How does the state most fundamentally corrupt its subjects? By bringing them to believe that immoral actions, which they would condemn if any ordinary person took them, may be taken blamelessly -- indeed, should be taken for the public good -- by state functionaries. Thus are mendacity, extortion, robbery, wanton destruction of private property, and even mass murder sanctified and made the basis for the deification of state leaders.
How does the state most fundamentally corrupt its subjects? By bringing them to believe that immoral actions, which they would condemn if any ordinary person took them, may be taken blamelessly -- indeed, should be taken for the public good -- by state functionaries. Thus are mendacity, extortion, robbery, wanton destruction of private property, and even mass murder sanctified and made the basis for the deification of state leaders.
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