As long as most people remain insensitive to the basic incompatibility of coercive means with humanitarian ends, societies will be hijacked by manipulative politicians and consumed by destructive power struggles between groups determined to impose their preferences and priorities on others through the force of law.
Having humanitarian aspirations does not make using force to achieve [...]
- "Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?" —Robert A. Heinlein
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- "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars." —Charles Darwin
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100mm macro accountability anarcho-capitalism Ayn Rand bailouts Bastiat big government billions & trillions broken promises canon capitalism coercion deficits faith faith-based public policy government health care reform individual liberty intentions interventionism justice liberty libertylover national debt nature Obama personal responsibility photography professional politicians profit profits & losses public choice theory reason rule of law socialized medicine statism stimulus suicide susbsidies taxes taxpayers television tibial plateau fracture voluntary wordpress- "Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his youth and many others which at that time could be enjoyed only by a small minority are now standard equipment of almost every household. He is fully confident that this trend will prevail also in the future. He simply calls it the American way of life and does not give serious thought to the question of what made this continuous improvement in the supply of material goods possible." —Ludwig von Mises
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