Editor’s Break 024 looks at the claim that “stealing” creative works, aka piracy, is a form of theft. It’s not; not in the slightest. There, I spoiled it.
Day: March 26, 2017
It’s Just Life
I just spent the past two weeks visiting with my son. It’s nice to have both my surviving kids with me whenever I can–but I hurt because I can’t stop thinking of it in that way: “my surviving kids.”
An Argument for a Stateless Society
The state fundamentally violates the non-aggression principle. Only its death can absolve its infringement, and I think this simple fact alone is more than enough justification for its termination.
Social Norms, Moral Judgments, and Irrational Parenting
Our current norm of extreme protection of children has become, unfortunately, not just a social norm, but a moral norm. If you don’t watch your child (or have some other responsible guard watching) every minute, you are, in the eyes of many people, doing something immoral. How can we change this crippling social norm and get back to common sense?
Liberty and Community Go Together
There is a form of community that is the whole basis of the market economy. It is an extended network of human relationships worked out in peace and mutual agreement. So far as we know, the capacity to form such cooperative relationships is distinct to the human experience.
Childhood is a Lifelong Burden
You have to forgive those who reared you so you can move forward and decide, on your own terms, what kind of person you are going to be. Then they cease to matter.