Ten Reasons Not to Abolish Slavery - Robert Higgs - Mises Daily

Ten Reasons Not to Abolish Slavery - Robert Higgs - Mises Daily: "At one time, countless people found one or more of the foregoing reasons adequate grounds on which to oppose the abolition of slavery.

Yet in retrospect, these reasons seem shabby — more rationalizations than reasons.

Today these reasons or very similar ones are used by opponents of a different form of abolitionism: the proposal that government as we know it — monopolistic, individually nonconsensual rule by an armed group that demands obedience and payment of taxes — be abolished.

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide whether the foregoing reasons are more compelling in this regard than they were in regard to the proposed abolition of slavery."