What part of the scriptures give the idea that communal ownership of property is established by God? (Of course, the scripture has numerous examples of private property - e.g. laws against theft).your comment would depend upon a certain sort of theory-of-ownership. A more social theory-of-ownership would not sustain your argument.
All actions everywhere are carried out by individuals. To say the "society assigns", or "society extends", etc,. is incorrect. Rather it should be said that particular individuals are acting in one way or another. On every issue individuals disagree with each other. Thus essentially all actions of the State are nothing more than one group of individuals using force to implement their will against another group of individuals.The government is “required” to provide what society assigns for it to provide. Government is the agent of society.
All people have a different scale of values pertaining to the options that are available to themselves. Such an effort invariably entails coercing some against their will to do what someone else believes is "better and healthier" for them. Is this not an endorsement of the tyranny of the majority?As such governing shepherds have the potential to make a significant difference in yielding a more moral citizenry – including through forcing people to behave better than they would otherwise, thus inculcating better habits and molding a healthier sense of conventional wisdom.
This and all similar socialists ideas suffer from the problem of economic calculation. There are finite resources available to carry out such tasks. How does any citizen or government official delegated to the task of distribution of resources know whether the benefits are worth the costs? How is it known whether there is too much, or too little education - would those resources be better spent elsewhere? It cannot be argued that everyone in society benefits - some will benefit, others will not. On the other hand, only in an unhampered free market where prices are voluntarily paid to those selling services can a balance be achieved which is commensurate with the desires of individual consumers.The purpose of public education is not to provide citizens who are parents with a free service. The purpose is to provide the entire society with the benefits of a better-educated populace ... facilitate the pursuit of justice through perceptive testimony and thoughtful jury service.
Public education is again tantamount to one group of individuals being placed in a position to propagate their ideas at the expense of others. The law of nature shows that God gives children to parents, not the State. It is thus for parents to direct the teaching of their own children, and not compel others to teach their children in a certain way.
It is actually to the detriment of the judicial system for citizens to be educated by the State. Inevitably, when the state controls eduction, the educational program becomes a means to inculcate its pupils towards Statism. It has been openly state by a US supreme court judge that the goal of the public educational system is to inculcate a set of values among children. The semi-monopoly of public education is very much to the detriment of an independently minded jury.
Is not a draft immoral? From where does the State acquire a right to involuntarily dispose of the life of its citizens as it pleases for its own preservation?... is better equipped to muster for military draft
