The individualists advocate the Force Theory on the principles of the struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest. In the animal world, the struggle for existence is perpetually waged for food and self- preservation. In this struggle, the strong animal succeeds in snatching food from the mouth of the weak or by killing them and thus survives, while the weak are killed.
The Individualists assert that the same kind of struggle goes on in human society The State should not interfere in this struggle to protect the weak against the strong, the poor against the rich, the invalid against the healthy, or the unintelligent against the intelligent. If it would do so, it will weaken the society because it should become the nation of the weak, the invalid, the unintelligent and the like. But the struggle for existence in the society is a struggle between ideas and beliefs, institutions and customs.
They do not survive because they are stronger, but because they meet the needs of the people or of truth. It is not necessary that only strong men would know or discover new truths and better ideas. The intelligent man may not necessarily be a strong man. Many great men are often weak in body but strong in mind. It is, therefore, a duty of the State to protect the weak, and the handicapped and offer to all persons equal opportunities for education, development and happiness. The laws of social life are different from the biological laws of the jungle life. The Individualist thinkers by making the two identical would reduce social life to the level of the animal life.
Lastly, the Theory of Force is dangerous and mischievous. It regards might as superior to right It proclaims the submission of the weak to the strong as a universal law of human life and thus makes it a basis of absolute despotism. It justifies the utilization of the national resources of a State for war preparations with a view to conquering others. It denies the liberty of the individual and the sovereignty of the people, because it emphasises the difference between the weak and the strong, the slave and his master. It asserts that force and command make the laws. But the fact is that reason and truth make the laws.