Strike-The-Root.com | It’s virtually the mantra of the statist government-believers – those of the Left, Right, and Center – whenever there’s a perceived “crisis.” A mass shooting. Unemployment. A display of racism or gender-bias. A tax-financed school system that fails to actually educate (though why such should baffle anyone is beyond me). At once come the hysterical cries that “we” need to “do something” – which usually means pass a new law, create more rules, raise taxes, and have just a little more inner contempt for that dangerous, dangerous concept called Freedom. The end result, of course, is always that very little of a positive nature changes – except that the tax burden gets heavier, police become more intrusive and abusive, the paranoia of society increases on all sides and levels, and the world becomes just a little worse of a place to live in. But those who feel they “took action” feel strangely relieved and vindicated, as if something noteworthy and of great import were accomplished.
LibriBooks | David Hume (1711 - 1776), an eminent Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, explores the nature and foundation of Morals in this book, which was written as a popular summary of Book III in A Treatise of Human Nature. Hume states: "There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species."
Everything-Voluntary.com | I attended government run schools, but I don't remember much of specifics that I learned there. However one particular lesson has stayed with me very vividly since I learned it almost 30 years ago.
PragerUniversity | "Social Justice" is a term you hear almost every day. But did you ever hear anybody define what it actually means?
AngryHateMusic | Philosophy is not public. It cannot be enjoyed while being ignorant of it. Philosophy is private. The only way to have it, is to learn it yourself. A few cannot raise the many, and the virtues of philosophy are not as obvious as science.
Strike-The-Root.com | Do I have a right to free speech? Or instead, do I say and write what I please? There is a difference between these two statements. The first ties my speech to a government-adjudicated fairy-tale (thanks, US Supreme Court, for those free speech zones). The second describes my actions without reference to any government. Also notice that the second is a far stronger way of putting it. It’s no surprise that government prefers the weaker language of rights. Weak language leads to weak--or no--action.
TheAnarchistAlternative.info | "Outrageous!" may be your immediate reaction, if you work for government in some way. "Why do you call me dishonest? I and my colleagues are as honest as the day is long. Anyway, where would you be without government? - it's essential for civilized society!"
TheAnarchistAlternative.info | Pro-government teachers, preachers, beneficiaries, lawyers, journalists and employees all insist that the word "anarchist" means one who favors "chaos" and violence. That is a LIE. It is not just a lie, it is the opposite of the truth; for it is government that causes chaos and violence. So to help clear the confusion, let's define these terms.
Strike-The-Root.com | My Fourth Edition of Black’s Law dictionary defines “slave” thusly: “a person who is wholly subject to the will of another.” The phrase “will of another” sounded familiar. I checked the same dictionary for “statute,” and found it defined as the “written will of the legislature.” You might come to suspect that a person subject to the legislators’ will—i.e. the “law”--is a slave of the legislators. Ah, no! That couldn’t be, in the Land of the Free!
TruthStreamMedia | The Declaration of Independence boldly states: "When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
