{"id":25846,"date":"2016-06-17T05:07:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=25846"},"modified":"2016-06-17T05:07:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:07:44","slug":"why-cant-statists-act-civilized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/why-cant-statists-act-civilized\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can&#8217;t Statists Act Civilized?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2016\/06\/why-cant-statists-act-civilized.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Coercion.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>KentForLiberty.com<\/a> | I can dislike something and still not want government to make or enforce &#8220;laws&#8221; against it.<\/p>\n<p>I can dislike a person and still not want government or its &#8220;laws&#8221; used against that person.<\/p>\n<p>I can HATE someone and still object to force being initiated against them or their property being violated. By anyone. Even if I believe they &#8220;deserve&#8221; it in a karmic sense.<\/p>\n<p>I can like something and still not want you to be forced to fund it.<\/p>\n<p>I can love someone and still acknowledge they are dead wrong if they initiate force or violate private property.<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/kentmcmanigal.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/statists-definition.html\" target=\"_blank\">statists<\/a> do that?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they focus on silly things like &#8220;respect the office even if you don&#8217;t like the person holding it&#8221;. What horrible drivel! The office is the problem. Without that office, the evil fool holding that office couldn&#8217;t hurt you from behind his veil of imaginary legitimacy. If he violated you, you could defend yourself without having his gang, numbering in the millions, coming after you.<\/p>\n<p>And statists are always looking for ways to justify aggression and theft, even as they object to it if it is used against them. Some even &#8220;justify&#8221; aggression and theft used against them or their loved ones if they fear calling it what it is (evil) would undermine their arguments for The State.<\/p>\n<p>And, yet, I am still willing to leave statists alone. But they can&#8217;t seem to return the courtesy. I just don&#8217;t understand that mindset at all.<\/p>\n<p>By Kent McManigal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KentForLiberty.com | I can dislike something and still not want government to make or enforce &#8220;laws&#8221; against it. I can dislike a person and still not want government or its &#8220;laws&#8221; used against that person. I can HATE someone and still object to force being initiated against them or their property being violated. By anyone. [&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":[1385,501],"class_list":["post-25846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-force","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846","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=25846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}