I like what he said on his first sentence of paragraph 2,">Bastiat claims that the people are still being oppressed but the oppressor no longer acted directly on the victims. He believes that the government, or law, is merely an intermediary between the tyrant and its victims.>". I believe the government uses us against each other especially nowadays. It is even easier for them as now they have social media, so all they have to do is throw something out there and watch us all fight nd debate over the whole thing. There is no point for them to just go right at us when they would have to deal with all that. Now they can just look like the good guys while we all turn on each other. Which makes us become the bad or good guys depending on who's eyes you are seeing it through. I know many of peole who throw out relationships just based off what the givernment does and them not agreeing wiht one another on the subject. I also agree with with he think he stands for. Bastiat was very clear in his opions on how we should have our freedoms. Life liberty and the pursuit of hapiness all the thing we naturally gain from God. He beleives we should hav ethese even though the government tries to take them away form us. We deserve to have these things or otherwise the government would control absolutely everything in our economy, world and even more. It would really just turn into everything. When you take away stuff like this it restricts ideas and many other forms that make humans, so beautiful and unique. I believe Bastiat saw this and really wante to make sure we didn't get these things robbed from us. I am happy he through this out there at the time he did, because who knows were we would be in that standing right now. I mean they slowly do it now until it gets to risky or we may notice. Our freedoms and ideas are what make us so great. I couldn't be typing this right now if we couldn't. I am veyr pleased with the points you touched on, becuase it even opened my eys up to more understand what he was saying.