What is Good Government? - Glenn Woiceshyn
Capitalism Magazine - March 10, 2009
“When a collectivist claims that individual rights must be subordinated to the “public good,” his concept of “public” is divorced from individuals, and his concept of “good” is divorced from reason, freedom and justice. His claim amounts to: The needs or desires of some necessitate the enslavement and destruction of others.
When a collectivist (qua altruist) claims that “the needy” will perish without sacrificing the “haves” to the “have nots,” he obliterates the distinction between the truly needy and those generated by collectivist policies. The truly needy are far better off on private charity under laissez-faire capitalism. What the collectivist is actually advocating in practice is destruction of the able for the sake of destruction.”