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24. Dez. 2009 · Vice s are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. In vices, the very essence of crime—that is, the design to injure the person or property of another—is wanting.
In this concise work, Spooner challenges the conventional wisdom that vices should be treated as crimes by the state. Instead, he argues for individual liberty and the distinction between actions that harm others (crimes) and those that harm only oneself (vices).
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Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimesare those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vicesare simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. In vices, the ver...
Every voluntary act of a man’s life is either virtuous or vicious. That is to say, it is either in accordance, or in conflict, with those natural laws of matter and mind, on which his physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being depend. In other words, every act of his life tends, on the whole, either to his happiness, or to his unhappines...
To know what actions are virtuous, and what vicious — in other words, to know what actions tend, on the whole, to happiness, and what to unhappiness — in the case of each and every man, in each and all the conditions in which they may severally be placed, is the profoundest and most complex study to which the greatest human mind ever has been, or e...
It is not often possible to say of those acts that are called vices, that they really are vices, except in degree. That is, it is difficult to say of any actions, or courses of action, that are called vices, that they really would have been vices, if they had stopped short of a certain point. The question of virtue or vice, therefore, in all such c...
Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime. To many, perhaps most, of those who practise them, they do not disclose themselves as vices at all during life. Virtues, on the other band, often ap...
We all come into the world in ignorance of ourselves, and of everything around us. By a fundamental law of our natures we are all constantly impelled by the desire of happiness, and the fear of pain. But we have everything to learn, as to what will give us happiness, and save us from pain. No two of us are wholly alike, either physically, mentally,...
A man is under no obligation to take anybody’s word, or yield to anybody authority, on a matter so vital to himself, and in regard to which no one else has, or can have, any such interest as he. He cannot, if he would, safely rely upon the opinions of other men, because be finds that the opinions of other men do not agree. Certain actions, or cours...
In the midst of this endless variety of opinion, what man, or what body of men, has the right to say, in regard to any particular action, or course of action, “We have tried this experiment, and determined every question involved in it? We have determined it, not only for ourselves, but for all others? And, as to all those who are weaker than we, w...
It is now obvious, from the reasons already given, that government would be utterly impracticable, if it were to take cognizance of vices, and punish them as crimes. Every human being has his or her vices. Nearly all men have a great many. And they are of all kinds; physiological, mental, emotional; religious, social, commercial, industrial, econom...
A government that shall punish all vices impartially is so obviously an impossibility, that nobody was ever found, or ever will be found, foolish enough to propose it. The most that any one proposes is, that government shall punish some one, or at most a few, of what he esteems the grossest of them. But this discrimination an utterly absurd, illogi...
21. Aug. 2007 · Paperback. $5.02 1 New from $5.02. Embellished with eloquent and pithy style, it states the defenses of freedom of choice. Spooner has blatantly offered a repudiation of proscription of the non-coercive vices and their effects on the human beings idiosyncratically.
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17. Juni 2004 · Lysander Spooner -- libertarian, anarchist, feminist, legal theorist, anti-slavery activist, pro-labour activist, and economic reformer -- was one of the 19th century's greatest political thinkers, and his Vices Are Not Crimes is a well-argued critique of what today are called "victimless-crime laws."
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Vices Are Not Crimes A Vindication of Mo. Lysander Spooner. ReadHowYouWant.com, 2006 - Philosophy - 84 pages. In the midst of this endless variety of opinion, what man, or what body...
Spooner has blatantly offered a repudiation of proscription of the non-coercive vices and their effects on the idiosyncrasies of human beings. The book is rich with variety of opinion of man's...
