If you are going to be committing acts of law enforcement against your neighbors, you might want to consider not being a hypocrite.
Author: Kent McManigal
Finding Scapegoats
It is so much easier to blame someone else than to take responsibility for your own screw ups. Government and “laws” create drug problems and the gang violence that goes hand-in-hand with prohibition. So statists blame Mexican drug gangs. And gullible people buy it.
Dealing with Princess Snowflake, a Government Employee
The woman sends home a list of math words, stripped of context, and defined with other words the kids probably don’t know. And my daughter has a much better vocabulary than most of her classmates, so if she has trouble understanding what is being said, I can only imagine the trouble other kids are having.
Quit Doing the Wrong Thing
If you are violating the life, liberty, or property of anyone, you are doing wrong. It doesn’t matter if everyone does it. It doesn’t matter if everyone accepts it. It doesn’t matter if other people believe you are doing a good thing.
The Employer of the Useless
Due to my utter lack of marketable skills, all my life people have tried to steer me toward government “jobs”. Just out of high school, I even looked into taking the post office test before being told I wouldn’t be considered for hire because I wasn’t a “veteran”, so there wasn’t any point. I’m now glad I didn’t.
Begging To Be Enslaved
“Unmoored”? Being chained to an aggressive thief makes people feel steady and safe? Can a person like that even be considered a person? Human, yes. I can see that, but without apparent “personhood”. Pitiful.
If You Want to Coexist with Me…
No matter how I feel about a particular religion– be it Islam, Christianity, Statism, or the belief in “authority”– your beliefs are your business. As long as you don’t act on those beliefs by archating.
Getting from Here to There
I’ve been pondering “gradualism” and “pragmatism”– things over which I have disagreed with people in the past. And, I’ll probably continue to disagree in the future. Let me illustrate my thinking.
Principles, or a Convenience?
I recently saw a person publicly declare he is rejecting the Zero Aggression Principle (ZAP) after years of following it. The reason: Someone had insulted his girlfriend and he decided that the ZAP was inconvenient and “pacifist” because it informed him that using violence against the insulter would be something he didn’t have a right to do. He didn’t like this and started posting links claiming that words cause real harm.
Government Doesn’t Serve Community
The best way to serve the community is to do the best job you can, being useful, and not violating anyone’s life, liberty, or property while doing it. Avoiding violations is the bare minimum to qualify as service. Master this and the rest will fall into place, even if you don’t get the same praise and recognition as those who draw attention to themselves.