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This philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership.
You own your life.
To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you have.
No other person, or group of persons, owns your life nor do you own the lives of others.
You exist in time: future, present, and past.
This is manifest in life, liberty, and the product of your life and liberty.
The exercise of choices over life and liberty is your prosperity.
To lose your life is to lose your future.
To lose your liberty is to lose your present.
And to lose the product of your life and liberty is to lose that portion of your past that produced it.
A product of your life and liberty is your property.
Property is the fruit of your labor, the product of your time, energy, and talents.
Property is that part of nature which you turn to valuable use.
Property is the property of others that is given to you by voluntary exchange and mutual consent.
Two people who exchange property voluntarily are both better off or they wouldn’t do it.
Only they may rightfully make that decision for themselves.
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent.
The initiation of force or fraud to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft.
It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against the few, or even by officials with fine hats.
You have the right to protect your own life, liberty, and justly acquired property from the forceful aggression of others. And you may ask others to help defend you. But you do not have a right to initiate force against the life, liberty, or property of others. Thus, you have no right to designate some person to initiate force against others on your behalf.
You have a right to seek leaders for yourself, but you have no right to impose rulers on others.
No matter how officials are selected, they are only human beings and they have no rights or claims that are higher than those of any other human beings.
Regardless of the imaginative labels for their behavior or the numbers of people encouraging them, officials have no right to murder, to enslave, or to steal.
You cannot give them any rights that you do not have yourself.
Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life.
You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice.
You choose your own goals based on your own values.
Success and failure are both the necessary incentives to learn and to grow.
Your action on behalf of others, or their action on behalf of you, is only virtuous when it is derived from voluntary, mutual consent. For virtue can only exist when there is free choice.
This is the basis of a truly free society. It is not only the most practical and humanitarian foundation for human action; it is also the most ethical.
Problems in the world that arise from the initiation of force by government have a solution.
The solution is for people of the world to STOP asking officials to initiate force on their behalf.
Evil does not arise only from evil people, but also from good people who tolerate the initiation of force as a means to their own ends. In this manner, good people have empowered evil throughout history.
Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to focus on some imposed vision or goal.
Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth and typically results in unintended, perverse consequences.
Achieving the free society
requires courage to think, to talk, and to act — especially when it is easier to do nothing. (Printed with permission)
Personal development 101 and some of the basic laws of nature the left like to ignore because natural selection and survival of the fittest offends them. Material they would have you shot for in North Korea as the idea of individual authority is dangerous to people who want to have people in a collectivist mindset subservient to the state.
They should hand this material out in the same class they are peddling CRT in the public schools, and see which philosophy the children on their own naturally gravitate towards without adult moralizing telling them how to think. Just exposing people to the contents of the OP's post when they have been indoctrinated by extreme left (or right) dogma their whole lives can have a profound effect. The reason SE WI has such a large vocal crowd of republican leaning free thinkers is because of Belling, the talk show host I listen too. He's been around so long he has people such as myself he dubs "Belling babies" ... people who got exposed as kids from their parents listening. It takes being exposed to this information to be able to internalize it. Control the narrative, control the people.
Personal development 101 and some of the basic laws of nature the left like to ignore because natural selection and survival of the fittest offends them. Material they would have you shot for in North Korea as the idea of individual authority is dangerous to people who want to have people in a collectivist mindset subservient to the state.
They should hand this material out in the same class they are peddling CRT in the public schools, and see which philosophy the children on their own naturally gravitate towards without adult moralizing telling them how to think. Just exposing people to the contents of the OP's post when they have been indoctrinated by leftist dogma their whole lives can have a profound effect. The reason SE WI has such a large vocal crowd of republican leaning free thinkers is because of Belling, the talk show host I listen too. It takes being exposed to this information to be able to internalize it. Control the narrative, control the people.
Natural selection/survival of the fittest is eugenicist Nazi propoganda.
Natural selection/survival of the fittest is eugenicist Nazi propoganda.
It's mostly marxists (extreme left) and puritans who believe the Earth was created 10,000 years ago (extreme right) that would make such a statement. That's the danger of letting any extremist belief system become mainstream especially if such a belief system wants to "cancel" opposing beliefs. Most of the major advancements in human civilization got halted by extremists who managed to get power and then went about their book burnings. We don't want to end up in the same fate.
Bottom line, I don't care what you believe in.. just don't try to cancel culture other people's beliefs and try to control the narrative and we are fine. The first amendment protects us from ourselves first, as a species. I suppose some people will now start to say evolution is racist, and try to prove why it's false now.
the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution.
Natural selection/survival of the fittest is eugenicist Nazi propoganda.
Natural Selection is an accepted part of science and can be observed in natural environments the world over, and also observed in laboratory settings. Just because the Nazis had their own twisted version or understanding of natural selection, that does not negate the fact that natural selection is real.
Natural Selection is an accepted part of science and can be observed in natural environments the world over, and also observed in laboratory settings. Just because the Nazis had their own twisted version or understanding of natural selection, that does not negate the fact that natural selection is real.
But the version of natural selection being advocated in this thread is the twisted Nazi version. Darwin didn't say we should leave disabled people to die in the gutter.
But the version of natural selection being advocated in this thread is the twisted Nazi version. Darwin didn't say we should leave disabled people to die in the gutter.
How is Nazi propaganda even relevant to self-ownership?
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