Which of the following is morally and economically preferable?
Tag: government
Must Be Absolute
We can have cheap prices for a scarce commodity and its sudden disappearance as everyone uses it up, or we can have higher prices that make it available to those willing to pay for it. There is nothing in between.
Job Description
If you were the top political adviser to a politician, how much sense would it make to say that the advice-recipient made the worst political mistake in modern history?
Arbitrary Rules are Harmful
Stay in the habit of evaluating each and every rule you encounter. Follow or reject them based on reality, not on whether someone decided to make them up and impose them on others.
You Can’t Have It Both Ways, Constitutionalists
It doesn’t matter if they try to govern others with socialism, communism, republicanism, democracy, theocracy, or some other version of statism. Governing others is always a violation of Rightful Liberty.
Humanity Needs Love and Understanding
It is not enough to have good intentions, or to “love thy neighbor.” People need to actually understand what is going on, and realize that being a moral, caring human being is completely antithetical to condoning any flavor of “government” or political “authority.”
Words Poorly Used #103 — Charity
It is frustrating trying to assist charities. Like all organizations, they have pockets of management dysfunction, pockets of people problems. This is also the reason why big government bureaucracies have so many fail points, many egregious fail points.
First, They Ignore You
Plenty of anarchists have noticed that the media, the politicians, even the Orange Fuhrer himself, have been mischaracterizing, demonizing and condemning “anarchists.”
Disagreeable Me
I don’t go out of my way to find things to disagree with. I even try to avoid situations where people will be parroting things I’ll disagree with. I want to get along with people, even if I’m not good at “going along to get along.”
Incentives, not Motives or Training
I saw an infuriating video of police arresting a nurse who refused to draw a patients blood at their request. Comments on Twitter included a lot of, “Why are police so nasty and brutish?”, and most responses were, “They need better training and to be nicer.” Nope.