{"id":19449,"date":"2012-01-01T06:09:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=19449"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:19:39","slug":"part-time-libertarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/part-time-libertarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Part-Time Libertarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/fQgA8IfhJ9M\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/LibertarianParty.png\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"\/>LarkenRose<\/a> | A lot of statists are trying to hijack the term, in the hopes of making themselves sound learned and principled. When anyone says, &#8220;I&#8217;m libertarian on certain issues,&#8221; he&#8217;s either demonstrating his ignorance, or intentionally lying. Libertarianism is a philosophy, based on the non-aggression principle, which says that it&#8217;s wrong to initiate violence against someone.<\/p>\n<p>To say that someone is fiscally libertarian but socially conservative, or socially libertarian but fiscally liberal, doesn&#8217;t mean anything. Adhering to a &#8220;sometimes-aggression&#8221; principle, which ALL statists do, doesn&#8217;t make someone a libertarian. Claiming to be a part-time libertarian is equivalent to saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m a vegetarian, except when I eat meat,&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m a pacifist, except when I beat people up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><br clear='left'><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fQgA8IfhJ9M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/fQgA8IfhJ9M\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/fQgA8IfhJ9M<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear='left'><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LarkenRose | A lot of statists are trying to hijack the term, in the hopes of making themselves sound learned and principled. When anyone says, &#8220;I&#8217;m libertarian on certain issues,&#8221; he&#8217;s either demonstrating his ignorance, or intentionally lying. Libertarianism is a philosophy, based on the non-aggression principle, which says that it&#8217;s wrong to initiate violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[489],"class_list":["post-19449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-libertarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}