“Well of course, as a libertarian I would ideally want the market to handle everything, but as long as government taxes, regulations and licensing make health care so expensive, we can’t give up Medicare and Medicaid!”
Category: Most Dangerous Superstition
Letting Gangsters Get Away with Being Violent Assholes
Let’s be clear about something: cops almost never get suspended, fired, or charged, merely for being violent, abusive, murderous psychos. Cops see each other doing that constantly, and do nothing about it.
A Moral Obligation to Pay and Obey Me
I’m a human being and you’re a human being. However, as the result of some rituals that other people did, and things being written on paper–which you don’t need to understand the details of, and which you didn’t need to be involved in–you now have a moral obligation to give me money and obey my commands.
It’s a Favor to be Excluded from the Military
Of all the things that people could complain about when it comes to discrimination, it seems to me that not being allowed to be an unthinking mercenary (and/or cannon fodder) for some of the evilest people on the planet … is not exactly the worst thing that could happen to someone.
For One Purpose Only
Sorry for stating the bleeding obvious here, but since most of the country still doesn’t seem to understand this, I’m going to.
Being Good is More Important Than Being Right
Unlike “government,” which is always a vehicle for violent aggression, “religion” has been the excuse for violent domination and it has been the “excuse” for people helping each other and being nice.
To Die in a Shootout with The State
Giving your car keys to a car-jacker in order to avoid getting a bullet through your brain does not equate to condoning and approving of car-jacking. Likewise, going along with various commands and/or demands of a heavily armed ruling class out of self-preservation does not equate to approving of or advocating such state aggression.
Pointing a Gun in the Face of a Random Stranger
A useful and interesting test to try on any flavor of statist is to ask if he would, on his own, do whatever he is advocating that “government” do (supposedly on his behalf). The question can have two elements: 1) would he actually do it himself, and; 2) whether or not he dares to do it, does he think it would be morally justified for him to do it himself?
A Small Glimpse of What Could Be
How many inventions weren’t invented, how many discoveries weren’t discovered, how many works of art–music, painting, whatever–were never made, because of the vast amounts of human time and energy that have been stolen by the giant parasite known as “government”?
Beyond Schizophrenic
“We need thousands of heavily armed government agents making sure everyone has the politicians’ holy permission to be here … in order to protect freedom!”