In the essay The Law, Frederic Bastiat argues how the perversion of the law affects its subjects in an adverse manner. He describes the law as, in its proper form, organized justice. The perversion of the law includes the violation of natural, or God-given, rights, which are personality (life), property, and liberty. According to Bastiat, forced government interventions like e.g. taxation are perversions of the law, since in its pursuit to help one group, it infringes on the rights of another. This is beginning of legalized plunder.
Bastiat identifies the two reasons as to why he believes the law in question is perverted by socialist tendencies. The first reason he recognizes is the greed of the few that control or the make laws. He explains …show more content…
He goes on to explain that this reason is not driven by greed life the first, but by the inaccurate idea that in taking wealth from others they will be able to help those in need. Both of these reasons, in Bastiat’s words, could be the cause of a number of legal plunders that include programs like progressive taxation, free education, right to assistance, etc.
A logical argument is imperative to convince the audience that the speaker, in this case Bastiat, is correct and to persuade them to change ideologies. Though Frederic Bastiat does his best to persuade his audience with his essay that the law is plundered if it adopts socialist tendencies, his unintentional uses of illogical fallacies dissuade readers from accepting his …show more content…
He bases most of his argument as anti-socialist, as he believes that men may grow stronger as they work hard and achieve only what they deserve. He views socialism as the tool of plundered laws to make its subjects docile so that they may be taken advantage of. It is not until the end of his essay that he compares socialism with communism using flawed logic, which further invalidates his argument. Now, if he were to see the modern U.S. government, he would label it as a socialist one due to its resemblance with current government help. Unfortunately, he uses the fallacy known the slippery slope in hope to validate his argument that “this is the high road to communism” (51), which is the conclusion of the slippery slope. In most of his essay he already believes that if governments around the world help the needy, they will become a socialist government. He is essentially saying that if any government starts helping any one group using force, they will eventually become a communist government. He would be wrong to assume so of the United States since it is still a democratic republic with what Bastiat interprets as socialist tendencies.
In Frederic Bastiat’s essay The Law, he strives to persuade his audience that to adopt socialistic views in a government is to plunder the its law. While he raises some good
Bastiat identifies the two reasons as to why he believes the law in question is perverted by socialist tendencies. The first reason he recognizes is the greed of the few that control or the make laws. He explains …show more content…
He goes on to explain that this reason is not driven by greed life the first, but by the inaccurate idea that in taking wealth from others they will be able to help those in need. Both of these reasons, in Bastiat’s words, could be the cause of a number of legal plunders that include programs like progressive taxation, free education, right to assistance, etc.
A logical argument is imperative to convince the audience that the speaker, in this case Bastiat, is correct and to persuade them to change ideologies. Though Frederic Bastiat does his best to persuade his audience with his essay that the law is plundered if it adopts socialist tendencies, his unintentional uses of illogical fallacies dissuade readers from accepting his …show more content…
He bases most of his argument as anti-socialist, as he believes that men may grow stronger as they work hard and achieve only what they deserve. He views socialism as the tool of plundered laws to make its subjects docile so that they may be taken advantage of. It is not until the end of his essay that he compares socialism with communism using flawed logic, which further invalidates his argument. Now, if he were to see the modern U.S. government, he would label it as a socialist one due to its resemblance with current government help. Unfortunately, he uses the fallacy known the slippery slope in hope to validate his argument that “this is the high road to communism” (51), which is the conclusion of the slippery slope. In most of his essay he already believes that if governments around the world help the needy, they will become a socialist government. He is essentially saying that if any government starts helping any one group using force, they will eventually become a communist government. He would be wrong to assume so of the United States since it is still a democratic republic with what Bastiat interprets as socialist tendencies.
In Frederic Bastiat’s essay The Law, he strives to persuade his audience that to adopt socialistic views in a government is to plunder the its law. While he raises some good