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Tag: humanity
Mean Ol’ Truth!
You can complain about the truth, or wish it were otherwise, but the truth doesn’t change to make you comfortable. And this is something anti-liberty bigots really don’t like hearing.
How To Use Your Fragile Ego To Do Amazing Things
Young people have incredibly fragile egos. OK, you’re right. Everyone under the age of 80 has fragile egos. We want to be seen as good, powerful, efficient, wise, attractive, hardworking, cool, and – of course – not concerned in the least with how other people think of us.
Paint and Corners and Statists
In Facebook discussions I sometimes find it amusing to let statists paint themselves into corners. It’s easy for them to do, because statism is internally inconsistent and stupid. All I have to do is keep them talking, and that corner, surrounded by the paint they applied, with no way out, is where they’ll end up.
A Purely Selfish Reason to Value the Lives of Others
You have your own universe of constructed thought and emotion and memory and perspective and wisdom which no one else can ever see the way you do. Everyone else has – is – that same universe of experiences. Ephemeral, yes, but also irreplaceable.
“Dancing Like No One’s Watching” Takes Hard Work
You can’t just be messing around. The “let it all hang out” way can be born out of a rejection of social pressure (admirable), but it isn’t born out of a love for dancing itself. It’s also self-conscious in its own way – by setting out to dance in spite of people watching, you may become all too aware of them.
Who’s Calling Whom “Arrogant”?
Time after time I’ve seen people call libertarians “arrogant”. Sure, I would agree with that in many cases. So?
My One Unchanging Rule
Wherever I go, wherever I am, there is one rule I live by that doesn’t change: Don’t archate. I hold myself to it, even though I don’t consider it a “thou shalt not” to be imposed on you.
Twitter versus RT: Which One is State Media Again?
Twitter is fast becoming a branch of US state media itself. For a company with such a large international user base, that seems like a bad business plan. And it’s certainly a bad thing from the perspective of achieving the not quite realized, but clearly to be pursued, promise that the Internet holds out to humanity — connecting people around the globe without kowtowing to the increasingly obsolete and disintegrating concept of national borders.
On Fire for Liberty
There are those who are able to use liberty when it is available. They don’t put any thought into it; it is just there, or it’s not. They are like the people who can use fire as a simple tool, as long as someone else provides it. There are then those who can see how liberty could be increased, and hunger for it when it is violated.