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[[Category:Hans-Hermann Hoppe]]
[[Category:Make Or Break Views Of Libertarianism]]
[[Category:Democracy: The God That Failed]]
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| text = A member of the human race who is completely incapable of understanding the higher productivity of labor performed under a division of labor based on private property is not properly speaking a person… but falls instead into the same moral category as an animal – of either the harmless sort (to be domesticated and employed as a producer or consumer good, or to be enjoyed as a “free good”) or the wild and dangerous one (to be fought as a pest). On the other hand, there are members of the human species who are capable of understanding the [value of the division of labor] but...who knowingly act wrongly… [B]esides having to be tamed or even physically defeated [they] must also be punished… to make them understand the nature of their wrongdoings and hopefully teach them a lesson for the future.
| cite = [[Hans-Hermann Hoppe]], "{{Link |Democracy: The God That Failed}}" pg. 173.
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