On Friday 25 November 2005 01:52 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > I tend more towards the Bastiat view expressed at the beginning of "The > Law". > > "What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual > right to lawful defense." > > Collective organization of the /individual/ right to lawful defense. He > goes on to explain why anything more than that is nothing more than > sanctioned theivery.
What's being "defended" in the above? Is it bodily integrity, personal space, property (whose definition?), a contract, ...?