Saturday, May 30, 2015

The "sum of good government" is an impossibility





Assume liberty.



  1. Kent, you live in a country where you are extensively governed. Going to no government is missing many in between steps. It would be more useful to protect yourself from one particular law or try to get that law destroyed.

    Government is a hierarchy. There are too many people who are comfortable at the bottom of that hierarchy.

    1. Incrementalism is fine for those who keep the goal in mind, but too many don't. I will take advantage of incremental steps, but I'll never stop reaching for the end goal, or scolding those who are too cowardly to embrace it. I am there to remind them the goal is Rightful Liberty. Nothing else will do.

      I won't stand in the way of those who negotiate with terrorists, but I won't pretend the terrorists are the good guys, or even legitimate. They are what they are, and calling them something else changes nothing. There is no such thing as "authority", there are only bullies.

    2. "Authority" is an idea in peoples' heads. "Authority" is power given. The U.S. Supreme Court gave the power of Absolute Immunity to prosecutors through Natural Law, not written law. Natural Law has also historically recognized authority of commoners to kill tyrannical nobility. There should be a long line of U.S. nobility waiting for the guillotine.