If at all possible, be grateful for the father you have, flaws and all, and do your very best to be an exceptional father, even knowing you will sometimes fall short.
Author: Kent McManigal
Identify Reality
Just because you don’t like what I say doesn’t make it any less true. Of course, the opposite is also true– just because you agree with me doesn’t mean I’m right. This is a hard thing to grasp.
A Response to Bruce the Anti-Libertarian
I ran across a letter to the editor written in response to a libertarian’s letter. This raving statist’s letter was a treat to behold. Rarely have I witnessed this much dishonesty in such a small space. Kudos to him!
Rule by Majority Unfair to Minority
Allegiance to a group shouldn’t be assumed, mandatory, or dependent on where you live. Let people choose their own groups, and let the groups’ territories overlap the way those of clubs or churches do. Let people switch between groups, or opt out, as their needs and circumstances change.
Be a Jedi–Understand Force
If you start looking for ways to justify initiating force, out of “necessity,” it is a path which leads away from the light side into the dark side. Follow this path often enough, and despite your best intentions, you’ll become a real-life Sith.
Why Try To Justify Slavery?
Nothing can give anyone the right or the “authority” to prohibit guns or to otherwise enslave people, so there’s no reason to seek justifications for either act. The money thus spent is wasted, and the money was stolen to begin with.
Write to Learn
I’ve found writing things down, to communicate them to other people, is about the best way to get the concepts clear in my own mind. It also helps me discover gaps in my own understanding which I can then fill.
Believing or Thinking
Believing is like accepting and eating a stranger’s casserole. Hopefully whoever made it had good intentions and was honest. You trust they didn’t use feces as an ingredient.
The Cost of Dependency
Instead of dropping the taxi business and its precious “medallions” like a rotting gopher, the drivers are killing themselves. Can they not imagine a way of life without their expensive government monopoly? If liberty is killing the taxi monopoly, as they claim, why not adapt and start driving for one of the other options? Why demand a place on the sinking ship?
“Nothing” is Best Government Activity
There is one thing government could do that I will support. One thing I believe it needs to spend more time doing. It’s the one thing government can do best, the one thing government can do that will actually help, and the only thing that can justify taxation.