If your purpose, or at least the real-world manifestation of your “purpose,” is evil, how can the word “corrupt” even have any meaning to your situation?
Tag: property
What the American Flag Means to Me
The American flag, the “star-spangled banner” is one of those things whose meaning to me has changed significantly over the course of my life. Once upon a time it meant being a winning nation, the best the world had ever seen in terms of righteousness, justice, freedom, and opportunity. When I saw the flag, those are the ideas that were brought to mind, ideas that I value, and produced the warm and fuzzies deep inside. I admired and waved the stars and stripes with a sense of pride. What the American flag means to me today is very different than what it meant to me as recently as 10 years ago.
Social Media: When Does “Actively Working With the Government” Become Censorship?
To put it differently, when does it cease to be merely “you can’t talk like that in my living room” (exercise of legitimate property rights) and start becoming “you can’t talk like that, period” (censorship)?
Government is a Violation of the Social Contract
Any legitimate social contract isn’t going to be what statists claim it is. It’s going to be completely voluntary and opting out will always be an option. And you won’t have to move away if you refuse to sign, either.
Digital Rights Management is the ENEmy of Internet Freedom
The purpose of Digital Rights Management is to allow creators to control the use of, and prevent the copying of, “intellectual property” — in the form of copyrighted informational works or proprietary hardware creations — after its original sale. The 30-odd year history of DRM is one of consumer dissatisfaction and sequential failure.
Using Mob Rule to Bypass Due Process
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.
Border Collectivization
When you and I separately define the borders of our individual properties, we define them for ourselves only. You and I may allow or exclude whomever we please. We may make different choices for ourselves, but may not impose those choices on each other. National immigration controls take that choice away from us.
Peaceful Anarchism 022 – Tragedy of the Commons and Potato Chips (6m)
Peaceful Anarchism 022, “An analogy can be drawn of the tragedy of the commons as it relates to giving many children a pile of chips and letting them free to fight for the chips.”
Words Poorly Used #105 — Insurance
A substantial part of my jagged career was spent in the vineyards of the property and casualty insurance business. I learned that, in its principled form, true insurance was only possible where every unit was equally exposed to a loss.
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.”