Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 192

But on your side, you construct a _theory_ in the worst sense of the word. You imagine, you invent, a course of proceeding which is not sanctioned by the practice of any living man under the canopy of heaven; and then you invoke the aid of constraint and prohibition. It is quite necessary that you should have recourse to _force_, for you desire that men should be made to produce those things which they find it _more advantageous_ to buy; you desire that they should renounce this _advantage_, and act upon a doctrine which implies a contradiction in terms.

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