{"id":2167,"date":"2012-07-11T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2012-07-11T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:00:12","slug":"the-song-of-the-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"The Song of the Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/praxeology.net\/zara.htm\">Nietzsche<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There, where the state ends &#8212; there only begins the man who is not superfluous: there begins the song of the necessary, the single and irreplaceable melody.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\/daily\/2897\">Paine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alumnus.caltech.edu\/~ckank\/FultonsLair\/013\/nock\/conserva-tive.html\">Nock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[W]hen it is not <em>necessary<\/em> to change, it is necessary <em>not<\/em> to change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnkindley\">Me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Government will [settle disputes in an anarcho society], deriving its power from the consent of the governing. Every act of force is an instance of &#8220;rule.&#8221; Therefore pure anarchy cannot exist in this world. Anarchy is a truth that exists in the mind and in a society to the extent that truth is understood by its members. That truth is: Coercion is evil and should only be used when necessary and a group calling itself a &#8220;govt&#8221; has no more and no less right to use force than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Anarchism isn&#8217;t pacifism. Force is evil but sometimes necessary, and therefore justified and not immoral.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m becoming persuaded that &#8220;Anarchy&#8221; amounts to limitation of force to the necessary + seeing that &#8220;authority&#8221; is illusion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nietzsche: There, where the state ends &#8212; there only begins the man who is not superfluous: there begins the song of the necessary, the single and irreplaceable melody. Paine: Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}