Thoughts on Force
Suppose I'm a mugger, and I shove a gun in your face and demand a single dime from you. You're surprised I only want a dime, but you comply anyway. Then I run away. In such a case, the cost that this mugging imposed upon you was greater than the dime alone; the very fact that someone threatened violence upon you is the greater cost to which the dime is added.- Stuart Hayashi
Maybe Rand wasn't holding up Danneskjold as a hero. Maybe she was saying a gov't that does not respect property rights turns even honest people into thieves.
Protection, in the progressive brain can and has been taken too far; I fear we would have to spell it out fully. It's tough to get the concept across to the bicameral brained left. (meaning the two halves of their brain still, after 3000 years, does not cooperated to any sufficient degree.
inadvertently been doing something to the detriment
of the safety of the other people on the road; I do not think that simply being pulled over gives you the
right to shoot the cop.
It is true that the roads ought to be privatized, but until they are, you are not the only taxpayer/victim of the government.
fact_, unless the government has somehow been derelict in its duty to rectify injustice that has already taken place.
I find that funny...
We had a home break-in years ago. They didn't get much (our dog apparently ran them off, or we came home and they went out the back) but the toll on our piece of mind was indelible.
Best wishes,
O.A.
I was afraid of the dark as a child. I recognized over and over and over again that the fear was unfounded and the dangers way overstated. I may have subconsciously disabled my fight or flight response by recognizing it so often. I've lasted 48 years so far without that reactive response, so I don't have much interest in rejuvenating it.
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