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There are two ways by which one can acquire the means for his survival: through the products of his own labor or by appropriating the products and lab...

I’m not so sure about that. Good people will do evil things just because the law tells them to. They are no longer acting as men, but as officials.

That’s wrong and for the reasons I’ve already stated.

All of the state’s institutions are directed towards preserving its own life, increasing its own power, and enlarging the scope of its own activity. O...

There are two ways by which one can acquire the means for his survival: through the products of his own labor or by appropriating the products and lab...

I’ll check him out Tim. Thank you. Maybe that’s where we differ. I believe one has a right to his property and you believe such a right can only be de...

Both can be seriously doubted because every time we look we see nothing of the sort. The idealist still has the herculean task of showing us where the...

I do not see the state as a mutual insurance company, or as some social contract. I see it as a predatory institution devised as a means of control an...

Speak for yourself. I never entered in to it willingly. I have no other choice but to comply. Back to the herd.

Questions are points now? Did you know you can make arguments in other ways?

No I don’t advocate for denying the comforts you and entire generations of people have become dependant on, built as they were from the appropriation ...

Is this your version of Socratic irony?

We’re talking about taking the fruits of someone’s labor, their money, their property, which I’ve said countless times. You’re talking about taking th...

Governments have always given themselves the legal right to appropriate the fruits of their subject’s labor. The law clearly prescribes this, yes, and...

This is more casuistry. I’m going to have to ignore it.

The answer is “no” by virtue of each specimen occupying its own space and time. Your copy is someone else.

What is this, an interview? or can you only speak in questions? Do I have to speak in questions too? What can better avoid an argument than quibbling ...

That is a problem, and because it is immoral to plunder another’s money against his will, it needs fixing in my opinion.

Given for free? When it comes to government, no goods and services are free. I would settle for piecemeal reforms that trend in the direction of liber...

Yes, but I was trying to go further than that and say experience, self and consciousness are the body. I wouldn’t say they arise from it, like a plant...

Not even a strand of chewing gum exists between the premise and the conclusion.

The body is our experience and understanding. It is our mind, our consciousness, our soul. It is the self, the identity, the free will. Much of what p...

Why would I see democracy as a threat to liberty? I wager you just threw that in there without thinking about it much.

Robbery is taking someone’s property by force or by threat of force. You can employ whatever euphemism you choose, but your objection is silly.

I suspect that if I mention something, like fly fishing, you’ll go and talk about laws against over-fishing, nets, licensing and whatnot. No, I get it...

Proponents of slavery argued the economy would collapse with abolition. Slavery worked, sure, but it was evil. My point is, the idea that taxation wor...

Those who want to do so voluntarily.

I want the government to stay out of my way, and at most to defend my rights and liberty. It’s difficult to identify such a thing because statism is v...

Try refusing to pay taxes to see what happens. But it has become so common place that we now do it before they show up with shackles and their guns dr...

Admittedly the idea comes from Frederic Bastiat in his book The Law. It’s a great read.

Those who have money to take.

If a neighbor told us we need to make a compulsory contribution to their revenue we’d cry “Extortion!”. But when the government does it we call it “ta...

I think the simple reason this movement is condemned is that it is ugly. To look upon and preach that the world as an imposition, escapable only by su...

Anthropologist Franz Oppenheimer wrote a good little book called The State that is worth a look, because it covers the thesis of the “conquest theory ...

Absolutely. The knowledge and will to protect oneself is all that is required. But what happens to this knowledge and will when a society that has bee...

If the track-record of political correctness is any indication, this phrase will be deemed racist, discarded, and we'll be presented with another hand...

The only advancement racists have made in the last while is the critical race theorists permeating academia and the industrial media complex. It will ...

My point is you have referred to criminality and corruption this whole time without being able to mention what crime he has committed or if a crime ha...

Like the sophists of old, some believe words can harm the human body, and if they rid the world of the words their pain will end.

That’s what corrupt, immoral and unjust witch-hunters do, yes.

Well, yes, that’s the point. It puts responsibility on the listener. Think of Mashal Khan, who was lynched and murdered for posting blasphemy online. ...

I am not ignorant of neurological processes. My point is that neurons and neurological processes are at the mercy of my own biology and not some abstr...

When you extend your notion of self to the very surface of your being, beyond the little homunculus we often pretend is there, you’ll find that the “o...

For what?

Simply repeating that old saying is not enough, though. One has to actually do it. And to do that one must not be racist. Unfortunately one finds plen...

The keys exert power, no matter what’s written on them. The numbers on the keys exert none. This beginning to get ridiculous.

The only moral choice is to lead by example, hope for the best and prepare for the worst, unfortunately. Any “solution” as applied by some centralized...

That’s right. I will respect someone’s property rights while simultaneously holding the belief their censorship is unwarranted. No matter how many tim...

I once picked up an Arabic newspaper and my eyes went immediate to the top-left of the page and I followed the script left-to-right. Had I known Arabi...

I enjoy your formulation and largely agree, though we could probably quibble with the terms. It reminds me of Thomas Paine’s distinction between socie...