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On it’s face, it hardly sounds plausible. The government needs to take your resources by force to protect from others doing the same. The claim is that inherently evil or crazy people exist who will violate your rights by committing some violence, fraud or theft, and so there must be an agent or organization that [...]
I believe I should not take part in violence against peaceful people, and I expect others to do the same.
I have a compelling interest to engage society. I find joy and happiness in interacting with people in a peaceful manner. I do not wish to participate in any coercive actions. If we are to [...]
From the looks of it, Carl Jung has some extravegent followers. I don’t know anything about his other works. However, I appreciate these comments on individualism from “The Undiscovered Self.”
The bigger the crowd the more negligible the individual becomes. But if the individual, overwhelmed by the sense of his own puniness and [...]
The Haltom City Council tabled its proposed animal license ordinance Monday night after almost two hours of debate. A handful of people spoke in opposition to some or all aspects of the proposal during the public hearing. One man, obviously suffering from cognitive dissonance, offered to make the first “donation” for his license. Some of [...]
On this, Constitution Day, I thought it would be important to highlight Lysander Spooner’s treatise “The Constitution of No Authority,” which makes a number of salient insights into the nature of the so-called law of the land. The Constitution is in no way binding in any legal way on anyone but the men who [...]
The Glenn Heights, Texas, city council is considering an increase in property taxes of about $136 a year on an average home, according to the city. We successfully saved Haltom City residents over $500,000 last week by speaking out. It’s the principle of the thing, I figure. Everyone on the board currently supports one [...]
This is the third installment of a live-blogging series on Frederic Bastiat’s The Law. Past posts in the series may be found here and here.
The Idea of a Passive Mankind
This fallacious idea of the state as the primary motivator of progress was repeated during his day, Bastiat said. In one Frenchman’s account, “Whatever [...]
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‘Natural Law’ by Lysander Spooner (Part 1 of 2)
It is a shame the individualist anarchist and legal scholar Lysander Spooner died before completing his work on natural law. I owe a great debt to Spooner for crystallizing my distinctions between law and legislation, one being the harmonious integration of human nature and the later a usurpation of our rights. Below are my favorite [...]