May 31,
2025
Limits on the Individual
First and foremost, we must realize that the
limits on an individual's actions generally do not come from the State. In
practice—apart from traffic fines—I have never committed a crime, not so much
because it is prohibited by law, but because such actions simply do not belong
to my culture, of which the laws are generally a reflection.
I would never hit my wife—not because it is a crime, but because it goes against
my way of thinking: my father would never have done such a thing, and when I
fought with my sister as a child, everyone told me I should be ashamed for
hitting a girl.
The limits come from the culture of the community to which I belong.