People can’t get rich in the market by stealing, because theft is not a market activity. Only those activities that are mutually-voluntary are market activities. Theft occurs outside of the market. In order to get rich in the market you must serve and satisfy customers. If someone was born poor and is now rich, they…
Category: Two Cents
On Power Struggles
Power struggles occur all over the world. Why? I’m sure there are a thousand reasons, but it seems they all come down to one party wanting the final say over their actions while the other disagrees. This can be any two people or groups of people, children or adults. What are we doing as individuals…
On Parent-Child Relationships
It seems to me that the number one quality of a good relationship is trust. If we as parents want a good relationship with our children, it must be built through trust. Parents must trust kids to know how they feel and how they are feeling, to know what most interests them, to know how…
On the Law
I came to the realization that “law” was not synonymous with “the law” a few years ago. More recently, however, I came to the realization that “the law” should always be held in contempt. Why? A few reasons: 1) because “the law” is necessarily decreed by a ruler or group of rulers, who are always…
On Children and Swearing
My children have learned to speak, and along the way they’ve learned words that seemingly have power. They know their “potty talk” like poop, caca, pee, and wiener. They also know, and have used (accurately) hell, damn, shit, bitch, and fuck. I’ve used all of them in their presence. My wife doesn’t like those words…
On Mass Murder II
In my last post, I wrote several names of individuals that I consider to be mass murderers. Becoming a mass murdering political “leader” can happen one of two ways: 1) they send the individuals that they command to invade an area presided over by an individual or group of individuals they consider to be criminals…
On Mass Murder
Murder is “unlawful killing.” Unlawful is not lawful, or not legitimus (latin). Legitimus is “in line with the law,” and laws are rules. Rules can be either decreed by a ruler, or discovered by legal theorists observing norms, conventions, and mores. Murder is unlawful killing both in the sense that rulers have declared it such and most individuals…
On Jury Nullification
Ben Swann just launched a project to promote the concept of “jury nullification” called JUST US. That’s fantastic. I wholeheartedly agree with the promotion of this very important tool for liberty and justice. However, in his video announcing the project, he wanted to be clear that jury nullification should not be used to acquit violators…
On Collectives
“Countries,” “nations,” “governments,” “businesses,” as collectives, cannot perform actions. Only individuals can perform actions. When a government is collecting taxes, what is actually happening is certain individuals are demanding that other certain individuals pay them their “dues” or else either they are other certain individuals will use force to either extract payment or cage the…
On Veteran’s Day
I see no reason to limit Veteran’s Day to a celebration of military veterans. Their “service” wasn’t really any different than the “service” performed by countless people in thousands of different occupations (besides their pay being funded involuntarily, of course). Service performed, no doubt, under the promise of a return benefit. Military veterans “sacrifice” no…