This discussion on the limits of legal liability for assualt by government agents ensued after an article titled, “A Black realtor who was handcuffed by police in Michigan as he was showing a home to a Black father and his son has filed a lawsuit” was posted to the r/Libertarian subreddit. Enjoy!
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Non-Obvious Speculators, Consumers, and CEOs
The borrower in a foreign currency is a speculator, a graduate of “exotic” studies is a consumer of luxury goods, and the founder of the family is the president of a home micro-company.
What Really Protects Liberty?
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, as if we needed another demonstration, that little stands between the government and our liberty. Champions of individual freedom have been properly disturbed by how much power governments at all levels have seized since the pandemic hit in 2020.
Tolerance Pushers Most Intolerant
Tolerance has a proper time and place, but this time and place isn’t all the time nor is it everywhere. Nor does everything have to be tolerated. Even the most tolerant person won’t tolerate everything.
Can Elon Musk Save Twitter?
Musk has a tough row to hoe. Changing an entrenched corporate culture and bringing an aging platform up to date to deal with its infestation of spammers and scammers won’t be easy. I still think he’d have been smarter to start from scratch. But I wish him luck.
Healthcare in a Free Society is Not an Insurmountable Problem
User u/Wolf96312 asked the question at r/AskLibertarians, “How would healthcare work?” about 7 months ago. After someone else’s answer, I jumped in and started by own short thread with u/Wolf96312. Enjoy.
BLM Versus Collective Guilt
One of my students was recently part of a classroom discussion on Black Lives Matter. Another participant roughly said, “It is totally unfair for people to blame BLM protestors for rioting. The vast majority of BLM protestors were peaceful. Blaming them for a few bad apples is just collective guilt.”
The Corruption of Money, a Key Source of The Corruption of The World
In the end, inflation is always a monetary phenomenon – it is worth noting that this truth not only indicates that alternative explanations for inflation are excuses to distract attention from the “elephant in the room”, but also implies that even the possible explanatory value of these alternative justifications can ultimately be anchored in the monetary and political sphere.
NATO and Collective Insecurity
Collective security, the official goal of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, seems plausible on its face. A group of nations ostensibly concerned about a common threat agree to defend one another in the event of an attack. “All for one and one for all,” as the Three Musketeers said.
Why Elon Musk Shouldn’t Buy Twitter
Instead of spending $46 billion on Twitter, Musk should spend $4.6 billion: $1 billion on initial infrastructure, $1 billion hiring a work force that’s on board with doing things his way, $1 billion on promotion, and a $1.6 billion bonus to me for suggesting this.