onevoluntaryist

I stand corrected. Sorry, I misremembered. Put in context, how important is this compared to the 10 millennia I cited?

99.9% of laws violate rights the authorities swore to uphold. Still for law enforcement? By what standard do you "downplay" that? Without rights there is no standard. There is a goal. It is first

It was "the choice of the people" in Nazi Germany (30 million people) to support the murder of their patriotic, Nazi Jewish neighbors. If not, it would not have been done. It was the choice of

The two are the same, morally, and that's the most important thing.

Once authority to initiate violence is granted, all is lost, no civilized society can exist. But this is done all over the world. When people stop exempting authorities from morality their lives will be

The world did not have cops until late in the 19th century. Why did it take 10,000 years after cities started? Clue: It wasn't public demand. It was for public control and protection of an elite at taxpayer's

My favorite Rand work is: "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology". I have read it over and over. At 75 I can reflect it is the most influential philosophy I have read. (Philosophy was my college

George found a movement and was drafted by those without political authority to take military leadership, as if arrogance was enough. It worked. He got followers, He got a lot them killed, captured, and

Where does your "moral superiority" come from that allows you to preach "lose your arrogance and learn some humility..."? Do you see you are the one being arrogant when you make

"...moral is deeply rooted in religion..." For most, not me. It never was, and never will be. My morality developed slowly over decades using reason for my ethical system, not superstition, not

No one knows how we are going to achieve civilization. It is a work in progress. But we have history to tell us what doesn't work. Any society that worships violence as supreme, over reason, over choice,

I mark the beginning of the US Empire at the invasion by the Northern states into the Confederacy. This was a denial of state sovereignty and their right to secede. Lincoln justified this aggression with

If I get conned, it's partly my fault. I am responsible for my ignorance and my mistaken decisions. When the invasion of 'Nam was seen by enough people to be a mistake, the war ended. As long as enough

Translation: "You upset me with your facts. I can't refute them or explain their relevance because I am overwhelmed by emotion."

You insulted yourself, and you didn't even know it.

I hate driving. Traffic has ruined auto travel. Who is responsible for the roads? The construction delays never end, with double penalties everywhere. And the planned "obsolete before built"

The British colonies freed themselves with citizen militias, not the Continental Army. Washington was great at talking his way our of capture, but terrible at warfare. He trusted regimentation, standard

Something strange just happened when I tried to "up vote" this article. It went from 446.26 to 437.26. (The $ amount went DOWN $9). What the hell is going on? Is Larken the victim of a hack?

I chose to boycott the state at 12 (1954). I only reason I didn't leave in the late sixties/early seventies was because I couldn't afford the one freer place I found, Switzerland. So I opened a Swiss bank

What % of the population would defend the cop in this situation? Way too many. To recognize the tyranny this represents is to accept responsibility for it, partially, if you support the idea of govt. That