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Anyone or anything standing in the way of my freedom.
You beat me to it, except that I would add "and my ability to lead the life of my choosing when these choices do not directly and physically harm anyone else."
But here's the rub: do you consider your competitor and your enemy to be one and the same? You are the competitor to everyone else. Does that make you the enemy?
Everything you do, from education to bargain shopping to wooing a mate, is a competitive effort to gain what exists in limited supply. When does that cross a line to "enemy"?
Enemy is a pretty strong word. I've had people with whom I've crossed swords. And there are people I wouldn't spit on if they were on fire. But I don't have some struggle to the death in my life with some nemesis.
Bobby Thomas, haven't seen him since the 5th Grade but I'm always on the lookout for him when I'm out and about. Thought I once may have seen him on a bus heading the other way, but by the time I caught up to it and forced it to stop he was no longer on it.
But here's the rub: do you consider your competitor and your enemy to be one and the same? You are the competitor to everyone else. Does that make you the enemy?
Everything you do, from education to bargain shopping to wooing a mate, is a competitive effort to gain what exists in limited supply. When does that cross a line to "enemy"?
When that person seeks to restrict freedom to do to your own body as you please, to raise your own kids how you please and to do with your own property as you please, by threats of physical force or actual use of force.
If you want to smoke, drink, do drugs, eat fatty food, not wear a seat belt, practice a religion, get a tattoo, kill yourself assisted or otherwise, play poker with friends for money, not pay by threat of force for services you don’t want and may abhor (taxes) or etc. it is your right to do so. Your body your choice.
But here's the rub: do you consider your competitor and your enemy to be one and the same? You are the competitor to everyone else. Does that make you the enemy?
I do not compete with anyone, and I laugh at people who think they are in competition with me. We are all on our own journey, living life at our own pace. The minute you look at another person as competition, you have already lost.
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Everything you do, from education to bargain shopping to wooing a mate, is a competitive effort to gain what exists in limited supply.
I don't operate from the "scarcity" model. That is what's wrong with the world today. Too many people think they have to control everything because sharing means they lose power. What a sorry existence. Power is an illusion.
I do not compete with anyone, and I laugh at people who think they are in competition with me. We are all on our own journey, living life at our own pace. The minute you look at another person as competition, you have already lost.
I don't operate from the "scarcity" model. That is what's wrong with the world today. Too many people think they have to control everything because sharing means they lose power. What a sorry existence. Power is an illusion.
I look at people who manage their finances badly as 'the competition" and so do you. They are subsidizing our penalty-free credit card, and staying ahead of them is our incentive to manage our finances well. Whatever education level you attained was in competition for the better jobs, and so was showing up for work on time.
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