Man needs law in order to live harmoniously and prosperously in society. In fact, without law, civilization would collapse. Law enables each person to act from his or her rational thinking without interference from any person or group.

Valid law prohibits any person or group of persons—including any government—from initiating force, threat of force, or fraud against any individual's person or property. What is valid law? And, what is the basis of valid law?

Valid law is objective law. Objective law is rationally derived and clearly defined law. Almost anyone can understand objective law. It does not require guessing or lawyers to interpret what the law allows or prohibits. Objective law contrasts with subjective law. Subjective law is arbitrarily derived and can be interpreted in several different ways.

Now, the basis of objective law is not to protect society, the state, the environment, or any other "higher good". The basis of objective law is to protect the individual, which means, in practical terms: to protect individual rights. That—and only that—is the basis of valid law. All other laws that seek to protect things above the individual are specious and ultimately destructive. This includes all regulatory laws, white-collar-crime laws, and other victimless-crime laws.

Objective law is rationally derived law. Such law has its roots in reality and the nature of man. It is conceptual law that is directly linked to protecting the individual's person and property. Each objective law must have a clear chain of reasoning from the facts of reality to the articulated law that serves to protect the individual. Any rational person can retrace the formulation of objective laws. Those laws that lack an observable link to reality and the protection of individual rights are arbitrary, vulnerable to manipulation, and harmful to citizens and their country.

Subjective law does not protect individual rights. Subjective law is the prime tool that criminal-minded leaders in government and religion have used for the last 3000 years. Criminal-minded leaders use subjective laws to control, drain, imprison, and murder value producers—especially the most outstanding producers such as Socrates, Jesus, Joan of Arc, Algernon Sidney, Leona Helmsley, and Michael Milken. Subjective law rests on the Platonic premise that a "higher good" exists above the individual. Thus, subjective law enables destructive leaders to prosecute innocent individuals in the name of "the public good", "taxes", "crimes against the state", "heresy", "environmental degradation", "ozone depletion", or whatever is in vogue at the time. In reality, subjective law is nothing more than a 3000-year-old tool manipulated by professional parasites to usurp their survival from the productive class.

The days are coming to an end where the guilty value destroyers can prosecute the innocent value producers via subjective law. With objective laws arising from reality to protect individual rights, conscious life on earth will transform from forced deprivations, suffering, and death to prosperity, happiness, and life immortal.