Giving your car keys to a car-jacker in order to avoid getting a bullet through your brain does not equate to condoning and approving of car-jacking. Likewise, going along with various commands and/or demands of a heavily armed ruling class out of self-preservation does not equate to approving of or advocating such state aggression.
Tag: logic
The Castile Doctrine: Cops Without Consequences
On June 16, a jury acquitted St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez of all charges in the 2016 killing of motorist Philando Castile. That acquittal was, in a sense, also a death sentence — not for Yanez, but for future motorists unfortunate enough to encounter cops like him.
We Are the Economy They Want to Regulate
The question is not whether the market should be regulated, but who should regulate it. And the only two choices are: 1) market participants through the exercise of their free and peaceful choices or 2) politicians and bureaucrats relying on the threat of violence to impose their will.
There is No Conflict Between “Left” and “Right”
There is only conflict between personal liberty and different forms of tribal enslavement.
Moderation Can Be Vicious
Compromise is often a good thing; it’s often useful to meet people halfway on something so everyone can at least be content enough to settle some disagreement and not fight anymore. And when someone shows no ability or willingness to bend at all, he will often be seen as hard-headed, stubborn, even extreme. However, the idea that compromise and “moderation” are always automatically good things is completely bogus.
Tyranny in New Hampshire – No Evidence? No Problem, We Got Prisons
Bill from New Hampshire gives us an update on the attacks he is suffering through by people calling themselves “government.”
Most Outlandish Interpretation Fallacy
It’s similar to the ‘strawman’ with a bit of ‘no true scotsman’ thrown in for good measure.
Comprehending
Eons from now, when the successors are reviewing the extinction of homo sapiens, they may say that though his ability to use the miraculous hand for grasping physical things was amazing, his mental ability, seemingly enabled by logic and reason, failed when it came to grasping reality.
Self-Governance, Rationality, and Secession
Contemplation is a form of internal emigration or mental secession, and every contemplative knows how valuable it can be for the life of the mind. Libertarian secession – a striving for full sovereignty over one’s private property and the physical space delimited by it – is a natural extension of the contemplative impulse from the realm of pure throught to the realm of action.
Watch How These Acrobatic, Minimalists Want to Raise Their Kids!
Consciousness around child raising is something we are seeing more and more of, and it is so refreshing to see two people go down this path, pre-pregnancy.