The “laws” against speeding and drunk driving are every bit as illegitimate as those against gun ownership, and for exactly the same reasons. Those caught and punished under those “laws” have usually caused exactly zero damage before they are “caught”.
Tag: rights
I Am A Feminist, and Not All Choices Are Worth Fighting For
All the choices we have been presented with by a society dominated by men and patriarchal values are NOT worth fighting for. Meaning, just because we can do something, doesn’t mean we should… or even want to.
Why Question the Protestant Reformation?
Popular views about the Protestant Reformation are absurdly sugarcoated. It’s tempting for libertarians to jump on this sugarcoating bandwagon and praise the Reformation as a triumph of religious freedom.
The Rule of Law
Today, I attended the second of half a dozen Lifelong Learning classes on the Bill of Rights of the U. S. Constitution. After four hours, we students are still on the First Amendment, Freedom of Religion clause. And after 100 years, we citizens are still stuck with the phrase, “clear and present danger.”
Factory-Like Schools Are the Child Labor Crisis of Today
There is mounting evidence that increasingly restrictive schooling, quickly consuming the majority of childhood, is damaging children. Rates of childhood anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, and other mental illness are surging.
The Honest Ads Act: “Fundamental Rights,” Real and Imagined
Americans — and Russians — have a fundamental right to say what they want to say, with or without their names attached to it.
What Am I For? What Am I Against?
Does an act, rule, or policy violate someone else’s equal and identical rights? Does it make it harder for them to exercise their Rightful Liberty? If so, I’m against it. Even if it might seem to “help” me in some way.
Words Poorly Used #116 — Right
A way of achieving lawlessness is to have too many laws. A way of gaining inarticulation is to overload words with too many meanings. The word, “right,” is overloaded beyond recognition.
Guns, Criminals, and The Mentally Deranged
Who gets to define “criminal” and “mentally deranged”? Or even “weapons”? I know– those same proven, unethical criminals of “government”, right?
Why ‘Innocent Until Proven Guilty’ Matters More than Ever
What we are seeing today is the normalization of a disturbing trend which has been slowly growing over the last couple of decades: The wholesale destruction of lives and careers through rumors, speculation, and salacious gossip spread by a partisan, agenda-driven media machine.