Freedom, Peace, Property Rights and the Nonaggression Principle

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, is interviewed about the roles of violence and property violations in the current disastrous performing Western societies.

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[TheStig000]

@ripem6126 Objects can be evil?

[NativeNewMexican]

@ripem6126

Money is a commodity, and it has no morality, evil or non-evil. Please stop spreading these simplistic misconceptions.

[mrraydean68]

A government or state tries to maintain social order by exercising a monopoly on legitimate use of force, or the execution of force by violence. These ideas were explained and expanded upon by sociologist Max Weber in the early twentieth century. The state claims the exclusive right to exercise violence and the right to punish anyone else who uses violence. This is the source of perceived "legitimate" power. As AS Berger quoted: "Violence is the ultimate foundation of any political order."

[kropotkinbeard1]

@DollFacePeter I didn't stutter. Did your ears flap?

[kropotkinbeard1]

@DollFacePeter By definition what you've described is not democracy in any way, shape, or form. This may be what currently exists, which simply shows how far from democracy we are. You clearly know less. You don't call something democracy when it isn't, and then deduce that you should get rid of it. You find out that which is interfering with it and get rid of that. Needless to say undermining democracy and then referring to the mess that's left as being democracy is quite an old strategy.

[DollFacePeter]

@kropotkinbeard1 democracy = rich voting for regulations to protect their own interests and poor people voting for government welfare => attack on the middle class.

you clearly do not know anything.

[kropotkinbeard1]

@DollFacePeter Nothing but! And most all the problems right now with the economy are also due precisely to a lack of democracy. Too much private tyrannies pillaging and plundering with the population being in the game, as is required by democracy.

[kropotkinbeard1]

@jeffiek Not a sentence. There is no "them".

[DollFacePeter]

@kropotkinbeard1 "due to democracy" whatttttttttt?

[kropotkinbeard1]

@jeffiek You don't even understand what my position is well enough to deduce that I'm sick. I'll be the one to let you know when you have it right. And then if you wish to make this claim, fine. You're free to make this claim, thanks to democracy. Were it up to private power and control you'd probably have no such right as has been repeatedly demonstrated throughout history, in many countries which the U.S. has supported, in fact. You're dense. But as you're a victim of propaganda, I understand.