{"id":26782,"date":"2020-02-24T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=26782"},"modified":"2020-02-24T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:03:57","slug":"are-people-just-trying-on-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/are-people-just-trying-on-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Are People Just Trying On Principles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2019\/08\/are-people-just-trying-on-principles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/SlaveryCasualDress.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\">kentforliberty.com<\/a> | Principles, for most people, seem to be something you try on and wear for a while, then toss aside and try on something else. Like trying on a hat.<\/p>\n<p>I guess there&#8217;s some point to that. If you try on some principles that are uncomfortable and don&#8217;t fit&#8211; or are dangerous&#8211; then, by all means, discard them and look for something better.<\/p>\n<p>For most people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentforliberty.com\/zap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">principles<\/a> seem like an annoyance. They just get in the way of doing what they want to do. Those principles then get swapped out for some other, less consistent &#8220;principles&#8221; that leave room for those things they want to feel OK about doing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how people can pretend to be principled while <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2016\/08\/archate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archating<\/a>. It&#8217;s how you end up with cops and politicians lecturing better people about principles.<\/p>\n<p>By Kent McManigal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Writing to promote liberty is his job.<br \/>\nHe hopes he adds something you find valuable enough to support. If so&#8230;<br \/>\nYOU get to decide if <a href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/Dullhawk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he gets paid<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kentforliberty.com | Principles, for most people, seem to be something you try on and wear for a while, then toss aside and try on something else. Like trying on a hat. I guess there&#8217;s some point to that. If you try on some principles that are uncomfortable and don&#8217;t fit&#8211; or are dangerous&#8211; then, by [&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":[433,490,1584],"class_list":["post-26782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-nonaggression","tag-principles","tag-zero-aggression-principle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782","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=26782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}