Indoctrination, in the Webster II New College Dictionary is defined as “to teach to accept a system of thought uncritically”. Mind Control is a more intensive form of the same thing, requiring some form of physical or mental torture. Indoctrination and mind control can be used to instill a system of ideas before an individual has been subjected to any belief system or it can be used to change the system of beliefs already accepted by an individual.
Tag: justice
We All Acknowledge Rights
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing sporadically at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. I wanted to provide some more clarification on my recent writings on the concept of rights. I wrote in “On Rights II”…
Scalia and the Constitution, Rothbard #14, Arguing Labels
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A is not B, Another Rothbard Quote, Unknown Processes
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Ubi est iustitia?
Nobody asked but … Ubi est iustitia? This is Latin for “where is justice?” I have been listening to a very interesting podcast, Russ Roberts’ Econtalk, with his guest Paul Robinson, on Cooperation, Punishment and the Criminal Justice System. The gist is that even the most transitory societies may impose rudimentary justice, even at the…
David Hume, Spooner Quote #19, Context
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Persuasion, Reason, and Markets
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing sporadically at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Those who desire to see the grip of statism released from our world, the abolition of coercive monopoly government, to be replaced…
Mission Creep, Founding Voluntaryists, Rigor
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On Social Concepts
While it might be unpopular to say, I feel I must say it: in my thoughtful opinion, social concepts like property, justice, law, and rights are not really what volumes written about them say they are, rather, they are simply whatever concerned people agree they are. When people come together to negotiate and agree on…
Justice under Voluntaryism
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing sporadically at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. People care about justice. Even criminals care about justice when they find themselves the victim. When people feel that they’ve been wronged,…