First Murderer : Wheres thy conscience now?
Second Murderer: O, in the Duke of Gloucester’s purse.” Therefore, as far as “The Law” defending individual rights, it creates the necessary conditions (such as the de-personalisation of ethics, the existence of concentrations wealth, and so on) for undermining individual ethical behaviour, and so respect for other individual’s rights. As English libertarian socialist Edward Carpenter put it, “I think we may fairly make the following general statement, viz., that legal ownership is essentially a negative and anti-social thing, and that unless qualified or antidoted by human relationship, it is pretty certain to be positively harmful. In fact, when a man’s chief plea is ‘The law allows it,’ you may be pretty sure he is up to some mischief!” The state forces an individual into a relationship with a governing body. This means, as anarchist J. B. Smith put it, “taking away from the individual his [or her] direct interest in life and in his surroundings . . . blunting his [or her] moral sen
