If everyone preached and actually lived by the Golden Rule they would realize that political action produces victims, which is antithetical to the Golden Rule.
Tag: police
Government is Not Abstract
Editor’s Pick. Guest post by Connor Boyack. Government is not abstract. I find that many people treat it like it is. This is evident in how they discuss a political issue. Here’s an example. “Marijuana should not be legalized.” This sounds so benign, yet it masks a number of disastrous consequences such a position requires.…
Steve Patterson
Four years ago, I became an anarchist, and I’ve never looked back. My political philosophy now runs through my veins. But this wasn’t always the case. I used to be a young, apathetic conservative. Then, I was introduced to libertarianism, which slowly turned me into an anarchist. This might sound crazy, but I assure you, it’s quite reasonable, and many people share my same story.
Caution on Climate Change
Editor’s Pick. Written by Jordan Vaughn Neal. Note: This is not meant to be a definitive proof of anything, only something designed to make one question and think. It is a fact that the measured global average temperature has been rising. It is also a fact that a higher carbon concentrate in an atmosphere, all…
Headlines II
Nobody asked but . . . Now here is a reasonable headline for the instant case discussed previously, “Ohio Supreme Court rules on police officer accused of having sex with a minor.” The headline and a reasonably well-written account of the actual case appear here. The crux is that prosecutors, who choose to proceed under…
Headlines
Nobody asked but … A thing worse than judges making looney decisions is the media loonies’ misreporting of logical decisions. Here is a major network headline — “Court Rejects Ohio Law That Bans Police From Sex With Minors.” Headlines are supposed to be a means of finding which stories to read, not a deception, as…
Short vs Long, Opportunism, Just This Once
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. Because many…
On Statists
The biggest threat to my liberty and safety are not Muslims, nor even radical Muslims. In fact, the biggest threat to me are statists. A statist is someone who believes in political authority, that some people are entitled to rule, that is, to wage war against the self-interests of others using any means necessary (compulsory…
Words Poorly Used #72 — Law Enforcement
How might a collective arrive at a perfectly regulated law? Well, it would by whatever decision making process it had devised (let’s say it is a perfect process, discovered somewhat as a blind hog occasionally finds an acorn) to decide on one law. Then assuming that a perfect law requires perfect enforcement, the collective would…
David Hume, Spooner Quote #19, Context
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. Every day…