Everything-Voluntary.com | The concept of “authority” can be defined as the right to control someone. While the word is sometimes used in other contexts (i.e. “the leading authority on UFO sightings”), the relevant definition is “the right to control” rather than as an inexact synonym for “expert.” It is also improper to use the word to mean merely the ability to control something (you don’t have “authority” over your watch simply because you have the ability to set it.) The notion of authority is about the right to control, and this quite simply cannot actually exist because no one ever has the right to control anyone other than themselves.
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JakubW.com | There is a great moral difference between supporting the lesser evil and avoiding the greater evil. To support the lesser evil is to condone evil, which is a morally reprehensible act. On the other hand, to avoid the greater evil is a legitimate act of self-defence. To flee a totalitarian state and relocate to a merely interventionist one is an instance of avoiding the greater evil. To start feeling a “patriotic duty” towards such an “adoptive homeland” is an instance of supporting the lesser evil. The difference is quite clear.
TheFreeThoughtProject.com | A favorite of state and local governments is the practice of requiring everyone who wants to provide certain products or services to be “licensed.” These licenses involve paying government to take some sort of test and/or provide documentation of state-approved training, and then paying government every year—at steadily increasing rates—until you quit, retire or die.
PeaceFreedomProsperity.com | “Today I received a message which expressed a very familiar sentiment I hear often. The “punchline” was this: “I am ready to give up on politics, but also scared to.” As I’ve explained before, the “political process” is DESIGNED to: 1) use up the time, effort and money of good people; 2) accomplish nothing for those people, and; 3) eventually give those people the impression that resistance is futile, that this is just how things are, and that they should give up and go with the flow.
