ShahQermez

Out of curiosity, are you a Moslem, CapitalistSwine? It seems like all you do here is defend Islam.

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Ayn Rand wrote nothing about restorative vs retributive justice, so neither is a part of Objectivism. Regardless of this debate, 100 hours of slavery is disproportionate to the crime, and paying a fine ought to have been an option.

It is your prerogative to do whatever you can get away with to minimize the effect of this injustice on your life. The punishment in any proper justice system would sentence you at most to a fine for a property crime with no human damage, and jail time only if you could not pay. 100 hours of slavery? You have no moral obligation to respect this coerced contract. What I find more worthy of note is the responses of the apologists for the state. If King George had decreed that carriage drivers buy licenses to use the streets, you would have been the Tories chiding your Whiggish compatriots for protesting the edict. I believe this is a good concretization of the trichotomy identified by Matt Stone and Trey Parker in Team America: World Police: (Pardon the language) After years of coping with the status quo by following the unjust laws in order to avoid punishment, some Objectivists will become so bitter that they envy those of us with the courage to stand up for ourselves. They stand up as loud defenders of the status quo ("rule of law"), excoriating anyone with the chutzpah to defy injustice.