"How do you make sure you are designing a system where you are going to constrain risk taking, you can prevent crises from spreading,and -- if a major institution managed itself to the edge of the abyss -- that we are able to put them out of their misery."

VOA: special.2010.04.16

If the right to private property is natural, not conventional, if it's something that we acquire even before we agree to government, How does that right constrain what a legitimate government can do?

如果私有财产是与生俱来的，而非约定俗成，如果这是在我们同意组建政府前就拥有的，这个权利又如何能限制合法政府的行为呢？

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This is the force or purpose of law to set rules, to keep people, as he puts it, on their way, a law that is intended simply to constrain and control for its own sake, Hobbes says, cannot be a good law.

这就是法律的目的，制定一定的规章制度，引导人民走正确的路子，霍布斯还认为,那种简单地为了限制和控制为目的法律，是不能称之为好的法律。

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