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On ethical grounds, my rejection of the state was based on the idea that the state’s claim to a monopoly on the enforcement of rules of conduct within a given territory was arbitrary if no individual has ultimate decision-making authority over property to be delegated to the state in the first place. However, I am [...]
On the surface, a recent post on Walking Upstream called “Libertarianism: Coercion Seen Through a Fun House Mirror” may not look like something libertarians should embrace. Upon deeper reflection though, it is exactly the kind of thinking about our current corporatist economic system that libertarians need to embrace (and are doing more of) [...]
OK, I am not condemning all liberals, but anti-authoritarian liberals should call out this blatant power grab for what it is.
I have addressed before why the notion of god is a contradiction and how objective morality can be discovered through empirical evidence. A point I have not mentioned is that many theists, despite their claims otherwise, hold that objective morality is impossible. Christians, for example, will claim that their god’s nature is all-good, [...]
I recently saw a video clip of Michael Moore calling other people’s money “a national resource.” I have to agree that in some cases other people’s money is not truly their own. For example, the wealth of Moore and others who benefit from government privileges, in Moore’s case intellectual property laws, would belong [...]
Concerning the protests against then-Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak, Barack Obama released a supportive statement on Jan. 28 addressing the popular revolt that eventually led to Mubarak’s ousting.
Obama expressed that the “people of Egypt have rights that are universal.” Later, he added, “Violence will not address the grievances of the Egyptian people. And suppressing ideas [...]
Both politicians and assassins agree that aggressive force is an acceptable means of influencing society. They disagree over exactly which tactics are best to accomplish their objectives.
Take Sarah Palin. She supports hunting down WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders” if only other people would [...]
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Why Not the Welfare State?
As I understand it, the case for the welfare state is the sense that “negative” liberty (being free from the coercive interference of others) is not an adequate condition for achieving a successful, flourishing life. Rather, “positive” liberty — the notion that liberty has its genuine virtue to the extent that one possess the power [...]