If Racism is Bad…

[Fisherking]

The problem with Rothbard is that there's not much there. From the article, he talks a lot about the old states, that had a very different structure than the new ones. A blatant example is that the new nobles (multigenerational rich families) are no longer generally located within the state. They're the power players in the free market.

He doesn't discuss how to solve the problems that the state is currently solving, but rather seems to ignoring that they exist at all.

I mean complaining about the police treating assults on the police more serious than an assult on an average citizen? Well duh, any law bringing organisation would do the same, both because it's their own private interest and the interest of them to provide proper law. And letting the rest of us not needing to buy bullets because the neighbours are picking a fight, like we used to (well crossbow bolts and things like that).

For your Wright brothers anology, it's more complex than that, they had several more or less botched demonstrations for the press. Cameras were forbidden as well.
They also didn't want much attention, at least in part for fear of design theft.

As I said, I found the material to be a truism. There are more ways to explain it and this is the most critical of government in general.

The critical question, as I see it is not whether the friend and colleges of the officer have more of a motive to investigate and punish the crime. It is does the law differ in its protection.

I would submit that it is different. Authority protects its self to a greater degree in penalties for the same and even lesser offences. There are even special offences for citizens dealing with the police. I think that is more to the point. Resistance to authority is a crime.

Should it be?

With the Wright Brothers, really the only point was that a scientific journal said it was a lie without an examination of the evidence.