{"id":22132,"date":"2013-11-22T08:02:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=22132"},"modified":"2016-11-22T07:41:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:41:41","slug":"myth-vs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/myth-vs-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth vs. Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Insanity.png\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/strike-the-root.com\/reality\">Strike-The-Root.com<\/a> | Here are a few things (out of a vast number) that follow, from that premise that \u201cA is A\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"left\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>Myth <\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Reality<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Self-sacrifice is the highest virtue<\/td>\n<td>Practiced consistently, self-sacrifice is the highest folly; it would denude the world of &#8220;good&#8221; people, leaving only the &#8220;bad&#8221; and helpless<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Selfishness is mean<\/td>\n<td>Self-sufficiency is virtuous<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>God exists<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;God&#8221; has never even been defined<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Government is necessary to limit evil<\/td>\n<td>Government is the primary source of evil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Laws are rules needed for a peaceful society<\/td>\n<td>Laws are the opinions of the governing elite<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Criminals do evil<\/td>\n<td>Criminals violate government laws<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Non-defensive killing is wrong, except in war<\/td>\n<td>Non-defensive killing is wrong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Guns kill people<\/td>\n<td>People kill people<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Preparation for war preserves the peace<\/td>\n<td>Preparation for war produces war<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Government is about public service<\/td>\n<td>Government is about governing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Government schools provide free education<\/td>\n<td>Government schools educate only rarely, and are always horribly expensive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Everyone has a right to free health care<\/td>\n<td>There is no such thing as free health care<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Taxation is the price we pay for civilization<\/td>\n<td>Taxation, being theft, is barbarous<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Police serve and protect the public<\/td>\n<td>Police serve and protect the government<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Courts ensure that justice is done<\/td>\n<td>Courts help enforce the government&#8217;s will<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Justice is about punishing wrongdoing<\/td>\n<td>Justice is about repairing damaged rights<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A uniform and a badge confer special powers<\/td>\n<td>A uniform and a badge consist of a costume and a piece of embossed metal or plastic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The people delegate special powers to government<\/td>\n<td>People can delegate to anyone only such powers they possess in the first place<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Roads can be built only by government<\/td>\n<td>Roads can be built only by road builders<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Limits can be set on governments<\/td>\n<td>Anyone who is limited does not govern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>By Jim Davies<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"left\"><\/p>\n<p>Also See:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything-voluntary.com\/2013\/11\/words-poorly-used-5-quality-assurance.html\" target=\"_blank\">Words Poorly Used #5 &#8212; Quality Assurance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike-The-Root.com | Here are a few things (out of a vast number) that follow, from that premise that \u201cA is A\u201d: Myth Reality Self-sacrifice is the highest virtue Practiced consistently, self-sacrifice is the highest folly; it would denude the world of &#8220;good&#8221; people, leaving only the &#8220;bad&#8221; and helpless Selfishness is mean Self-sufficiency is virtuous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[683,758,132,320,501,878,1340,396,863,11,670,1068],"class_list":["post-22132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-courts","tag-government","tag-healthcare","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-myth","tag-reality","tag-roads","tag-sacrifice","tag-tax","tag-uniforms","tag-virtue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22132","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=22132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}