Imagine, for example, being confronted by a Hegelian, who would claim to be an enthusiastic devotee of freedom. In his lexicon, however, individual freedom is a misnomer and true freedom consists in submission by the individual to the state. The spectre of might is right looms large. Galt's Gulch, in Atlas Shrugged , to which Rex repairs for vindication, may not have had an organised government, but its inhabitants, remember, were a small, invitation-only elite of the brightest and the best who had temporarily retreated from the world pending its inevitable collapse. Murder is not validated by consensus.
Freedom is freedom from force.
Force is justified only when used in retaliation against those who initiate it. Such are the objective origins and functions of government. Jr. In the 1970s, Mr Childs was a prominent exponent of anarchism. Less well known is the fact that he subsequently changed his mind. Because, to paraphrase my open letter to Ayn Rand, I was wrong.