Lew Rockwell on the double standard between state and individual actions

[T]he abolition of the state will necessarily increase the level of egalitarianism from the point of view of status; the inequality of status between state officials on the one hand, who today may carry out all kinds of moral outrages with the legitimacy of the state to support them, and ordinary people, who are constrained by the traditional moral rules against theft and aggression, on the other, will no longer exist when the state disappears.

~ Lew Rockwell, "The Story of the Mises Institute," LewRockwell.com, September 18, 2018