On the one hand, it’s easier to destroy than to create (think of the handful of savages that tore down the World Trade Center on 9/11, which took thousands of civilized people and billions of dollars to build); yet on the other hand, it’s easier to defend than attack (think of the rule of thumb in Risk, where you have to have a larger army than the defenders to win a battle).
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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