Voluntaryists often site the condition that minions can get away with murder by wearing a uniform and/or a badge. I think this cognitive dissonance comes about because of the spade work of higher officials.
Tag: behavior
Who’s Bashing?
Isn’t it interesting how telling the truth about cops has become “cop bashing”? What delicate little flowers that gang has become.
Most Concerns with Safety are Bullshit
Sure, wear a seat belt on a two hour drive. Don’t wash your fruit before eating it. Let your kids go outside and talk to strangers.
Letting “Laws” Control You
I don’t believe you should destroy the environment just to spite the socialists who use the environment as their excuse to destroy liberty. I know conservatives who do this. I also know libertarians who make a point to break “laws” just to be breaking “laws.”
Identity and Anarchy, Part 1
What I’ve been thinking a lot of about lately is this concept of identity. And I’ve got like… a dozen half-written posts trying to explore my own thoughts, and figure out exactly how I want to present what I’m effectively trying to say. Maybe they’ll get finished, but maybe they won’t. I don’t know. But maybe I can attempt here to at least cut to the chase.
6 Common Baby Items that Interrupt Your Child’s Natural Development.
The most empowering thing (well, one of the..) I realized as a mother is that we often times overcomplicate raising children, and we don’t have to. In fact, everyone, including your child, benefits when you don’t. Not to mention you save time, money, and frustration in the process. Here are 6 items that you can do without (mostly) because they can do more harm than good.
Science March III
Why wouldn’t economists march for science? Why do science supporters believe they must insist that economics is a pseudoscience to validate that the so-called hard sciences are precise or predictive. Neither of these are the objectives of science.
Science March II
What good is science if it doesn’t take its place among the arts? Science has become an enemy to both the ignorant and those knowledgeable enough to know that it takes more than science? Art has its root meaning in making do.
Why Our Coercive System of Schooling Should Topple
I’ve been called a crazy optimist, a Pollyanna, a romantic idealist. How can I believe that our system of compulsory schooling is about to collapse? People point out that in many ways the schooling system is stronger now than ever. It occupies more of children’s time, gobbles up more public funds, employs more people, and is more firmly controlled by government – and at ever-higher levels of government – than has ever been true in the past. So why do I believe it’s going to collapse – slowly at first and then more rapidly – over the next ten years or so? Here are four reasons.
Stupid or Stubborn?
If someone is doing something the wrong way–and I don’t mean in a way you simply don’t like, but one which doesn’t work very well, when there is a better way which is not more difficult, complicated, or inconvenient–and you show them the better way, but they never stop doing it the wrong way, what explains their behavior? Inertia? Habit? Or something else?