{"id":26984,"date":"2023-02-03T16:07:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T23:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=26984"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T23:07:24","slug":"government-not-worth-trade-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/government-not-worth-trade-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Not Worth Trade-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kentmcmanigal.blogspot.com\/2022\/08\/government-not-worth-trade-off.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/SuperiorOrders.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\">Hooligan Libertarian<\/a> | Do you believe you need to be governed? I mean you, as an individual. If you didn&#8217;t feel like government was watching over your shoulder all the time, would you steal, kidnap, or murder? I&#8217;m betting you wouldn&#8217;t. Neither would I.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re saying you would commit crimes if not for government, I&#8217;m guessing you commit crimes anyway. By &#8220;crimes&#8221; I&#8217;m not talking about the counterfeit &#8220;crimes&#8221; which are only called crimes because government made up an arbitrary rule that says so. I&#8217;m speaking of acts which have a specific individual victim whose life, liberty, or property has been violated in some concrete way.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt many in my audience would ever do anything actually criminal. People who read these columns simply aren&#8217;t the sort. You govern yourselves perfectly well.<\/p>\n<p>So, you probably don&#8217;t believe you need to be governed. I certainly don&#8217;t. It would be a very defeatist attitude to take. Nor do I want you governed on my behalf. I&#8217;m not helpless.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad we settled that. <a href=\"https:\/\/kentmcmanigal.blogspot.com\/2022\/08\/government-not-worth-trade-off.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Kent McManigal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooligan Libertarian | Do you believe you need to be governed? I mean you, as an individual. If you didn&#8217;t feel like government was watching over your shoulder all the time, would you steal, kidnap, or murder? I&#8217;m betting you wouldn&#8217;t. Neither would I. If you&#8217;re saying you would commit crimes if not for government, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[758,36],"class_list":["post-26984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-government","tag-police-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26984","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=26984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27005,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26984\/revisions\/27005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}