When Government Becomes the Enemy – Resistance Against State Injustice

The right to self-defense is perhaps the least disputed of all moral principles. It is also common sense that we have the right to defend other people who are aggressed upon. Virtually everyone recognizes these rights as the most obvious of ethical principles, yet many people believe that our rights to defense do not apply if the aggressor to our person or property is an agent of the state. In this video relying on Jason Brennan’s book When All Else Fails – The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, we explore why this belief is wrong.