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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 the 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. It is that part of nature that you turn to valuable use. And it 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. Normally, the initiation of force 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 a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.
"You have the right to protect your own life, liberty, and justly acquired property from the forceful aggression of others. So you may rightfully ask others to help protect 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 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."
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Vote For Peace - Ron Paul 2012by johannas58314 views
Hmm, i have to thank you for mentioning Murray Rothbard by the way. I took you up on it, and so far i've been having an interesting read! I find myself in agreement with a lot of things he had to say, especially when it comes to economics.
LibertasXI 1 month ago
Also, here are a few other definitions of the word system: 1 A social, economic, or political organizational form. 2 A condition of harmonious, orderly interaction. 3 The prevailing social order; the establishment. A system is not necessarily made out of steel, paper or plastic alone.
LibertasXI 1 month ago
@kamikazee55 It boggles the mind how you can draw such a stupid conclusion... a system is a concept that doesn't really exist, seriously? Obviously. If something has individual parts the sum of its parts would form the whole... such as a car, a building and yes, a government. What part of "depending on the sircumstances" don't you understand? Heck, you're even sitting behind a system that could be given authorities right now! I've allready awnsered your question three times!
LibertasXI 1 month ago
@LibertasXI So a system is in fact a concept. Since you can find individual parts, but not a 'system' in reality. Now the question is then do systems have authority? No they do not. A system cannot have authority because it does not exist.
Explain to me where the government gets its authority..
kamikazee55 1 month ago
@kamikazee55 Well, depending on the circumstances a system can be anything really. According to the dictionary, a system might be described as: "A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole."
LibertasXI 1 month ago
@LibertasXI Please explain what a 'system' is.
kamikazee55 1 month ago
@kamikazee55 I'm not conceptualizing the entire world, you are conceptualizing government based on rigid predispositions. Government is a system willed into existence by mutual agreement of individuals... it is dynamic and changeable. Just like those cars, guns, buildings and pieces of paper. All has been brought forth by the individual.
LibertasXI 1 month ago
@LibertasXI The government steals, rapes, and murders on a massive scale. The government is not a solution to these problems. You are conceptualizing the entire world. There is no government. There are buildings, guns, cars, pieces of paper, and individuals. There is no government. What you are advocating is applying one set of moral rules to one group, and a different set to the rest.
I would suggest you look up Rothbard. 'God did it' is not an answer. 'Give guns to people' is not an answer.
kamikazee55 1 month ago
Basically, we're approaching this subject from two completely different perspectives. And then we haven't even spoken about the inefficiency of human language to transfer ideas... ugh. Anyway, peace dude.
LibertasXI 1 month ago
@LibertasXI rape, murder, heft, etc, etc. And because all such systems are ultimately created to serve men, the latter rules out the first because conditions would be worse. It would be destroying the very reason of its existence.So according to my view, it all comes down to choosing the best of all possibilities. Which is in my opinion a form of government that the U.S. Constitution dictates. Tho things are deteriorating very rapidly now, the USA is still the freeest nation on Earth
LibertasXI 1 month ago