Everything-Voluntary.com | I can’t count how many times, or in how many ways, statists have tried to justify the violent authoritarian domination they advocate by saying that they’re only being “practical” and “realistic.” And that’s it. That’s their entire argument. They don’t even try to attempt to describe any principle by which being a parasitic aggressor could be a good thing. No, they just assert that that’s just how things need to be, because “real world,” and “grow up,” and “how things are,” and because peaceful coexistence and not being a violent, control freak bastard is (for some reason) unrealistic and extreme and Utopian.

Strike-The-Root | The nature of lions is to kill, and so it is good that they kill because that ensures lion survival. If an individual lion loses his teeth, that is bad because he can no longer fend for himself. If all lions were to lose their teeth, that would be the end of lions.