If you value civility and peace, and desire to avoid costly and violent conflict with other people, you would do well to respect and apply due process in situations that require it. Since I value and desire these things, I am committed to respecting due process in every way that I can. Unfortunately though, not many else are.
Tag: justice
Answer to The “Unanswerable Challenge”
I knew the answer almost immediately, but kept quiet for a long time for the sake of politeness. But it just keeps being brought up over and over, and it’s a little embarrassing. It’s almost as bad as a supposedly knowledgeable gun owner lecturing a newbie about the “shoulder thing that goes up” and why it should be “illegal.”
Stop Lying about Laws Applying
I engaged in an instructive Facebook conversation recently. I approached it Socratically at first, but ended it with some food for thought (pun intended). Here it is in full, edited for presentation. The topic is the applicability of government laws as it concerns the food vendor that was robbed by campus police recently.
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.”
Detours to The “Left”
Maybe the toxicity of the “Right” rhetoric repelled them so thoroughly that they bounced directly into a belief system exactly as repugnant. They took on the “social justice” causes, no matter how anti-liberty they are, just because they weren’t the causes of the “Right.”
Why We Need Markets for Justice
Richard Ebeling once told me, “Government makes criminals of us all.” Government sets up society so that no person can live a life without using some sort of government service, paid for through coerced taxes. I later came to realize that government needs to make moral cowards of us all, in order to keep us dependent on it for the dispensation of justice.
Who’s Angry?
I’m not generally an angry person (although sometimes I get angry at certain events or people), but I think it’s completely reasonable for anarchists to be angry. Why would an anarchist be angry?
A Lack of Imagination
People LOVE punishment. And they lust for it. And they simply can’t imagine finding themselves in the position of being on the other end. Unfortunately, I can imagine it.
The Liberal Spirit and Its Opposite, Alt-Rightism
Maybe a few self-described libertarians cling to the idea that property is essentially about exclusion, but they are fated to hit a wall: liberalism is a spirit as well as a set of ideas, and it cannot be turned against itself. It fosters human solidarity, not separation. Libertarianism, like its precursor, is an answer to the question: under what conditions do reasoning social animals best flourish? In answering that question the way it has, liberalism offers no home to sowers of division.
Words Poorly Used #100 — Pardon
A pardon should be given to correct a miscarriage of justice, not to perpetrate another injustice. A pardon under the law is to make the law more humane, not to unleash the lawless upon the land.