Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Whether rooted in common law or statutory traditions, legal systems are fundamentally designed to prevent one person from making another worse off. Most people want peaceful, peer interactions, and governments strive to maintain that peace by enforcing laws. Exceptions to this principle originate with and on behalf of the state itself, which means certain groups — ‘authorities’ — create a gross asymmetry compared to certain other groups, ‘citizens.’ Why is it that authorities can make someone worse off—for example, via wealth confiscation, regulatory interference, civil asset forfeiture, or the prosecution of victimless crimes — while citizens are held to a far stricter set of standards?” (06/04/25)