{"id":26004,"date":"2016-09-12T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=26004"},"modified":"2016-09-11T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T04:22:37","slug":"are-there-exceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/are-there-exceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Are There Exceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-lever\/zap-the-exceptions\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Voluntaryism.png\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" target=\"_blank\" \/>ZeroAggressionProject.org<\/a> | Statists think it\u2019s okay to violate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-lever\/zero-aggression-principle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zero Aggression Principle<\/a> to achieve a good result, or prevent a bad one. But this creates a contradiction, because <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-lever\/initiated-force\/\" target=\"_blank\">initiating force<\/a> is itself a bad result.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Key Concept:<\/strong> Doing something negative (initiating force) takes you away from the positive. You\u2019re in arrears the moment you attempt to use bad means to achieve good ends.<\/p>\n<p>This should create a bias against initiating force, even for the best intentions. Instead of <em>digging deep<\/em> for exceptions to the Zero Aggression Principle, people should choose one of the many nonviolent options available to pursue their goals. But\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Statists love violence-based solutions, so they keep striving to find justifications. Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-levers\/statism-statist-myths\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cStatism &amp; Statist Myths\u201d<\/a> collection of Mental Levers rebuts many of these attempted excuses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_text\">By Perry Willis &amp; Jim Babka<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZeroAggressionProject.org | Statists think it\u2019s okay to violate the Zero Aggression Principle to achieve a good result, or prevent a bad one. But this creates a contradiction, because initiating force is itself a bad result. Key Concept: Doing something negative (initiating force) takes you away from the positive. You\u2019re in arrears the moment you attempt [&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":[1255,1584],"class_list":["post-26004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-zap","tag-zero-aggression-principle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26004","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=26004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}