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Hello! My name is Martin. I'm from Norway and have been a donator and follower of FDR for a long while, but I rarely post anything. The reason for my sudden change of heart is Stefan's newest series on r/K-selective traits which really cleared up a lot of "missing" links in my understanding... I thought, but just for everything but my understanding of self. If you guys could help me out: Thanks! Introduction and childhood: After watching the first video, I thought I had strong K-selective traits with some r-selective attributes. I was brought up without violence and with conservative/open-minded parents. In Norway we have a children's song which goes like: "You shall never bother others, you shall be both fair and kind, and whatever else you do I shall not mind" - and this is what my lasting impression, of especially my father's, upbringing of me was. I have always been extremely talented in logics and mathematics and were mostly 2-4 years a head of my class mates (during 10 first years of school) - without proper stimuli from Norway's TERRIBLE "unity school" (What we call the public school here) except my dad's "private courses" (When not working 12 hours a day). I have always caught VERY fast, subconciously is more correct, if something is "off" or did not make logical sense. It almost gives me a feeling like a chill - hard to explain. This always came in handy as I have never really needed to study subjects involving logic - it just fell naturally. I also did some mock IQ-tests: And I scored sky-high on math/logic parts, but average at other categories. I didn't really have the right stimuli at school. I was intensely bored in school. To clarify: the soft sciences like language, society studies etc. I didn't excel at - they never made much sense to me (Though after we started getting grades in 8th grade it was mostly B's in those subjects). it was Trivia Pursuit, remembering dull facts. I was also a somewhat a bully and bullied myself - I was very rambunctious and was EASILY teased because I could explode and would always defend myself. I was a recluse in the open - I never really fit in (and felt like this - other people weren't the same as me) but I knew how to fit in somewhat - I learned the rules but didn't really get the "game". I am certain after video 2 I have a miniscule amygdala, is the point I'm trying to make. I became addicted to video games early, and it dominated my life completely during teen age years. I had almost no female contact (except my mom) before I was 20. No attention at all. I was very depressed, but "switched it off" for the most part. Though I did have some weird same-sex (and age) experimentation when I was around 8-10, which I really hated and supressed it like mad for A LOT of years. I could not even look in the direction I had done these things without invoking supressed shame. I have no idea how all this influences r/K-selective traits, but I guess it does because I became extremely good at supressing my feelings, and I can still handle them like a switch (even love, hate, sexual lust etc. - but not rage, I guess this is where it all comes out, eh?). I don't know when I started doing this; during the few years of bullying in school, not getting the stimuli I needed, or the lack of any real female attention during teen-years? I think I developed, together with the enourmous praise I got for my math/logic skills, some form of bizarre form of narcissism. As I mentioned, either I excelled, or I quickly abandoned every motivation to learn. As I have spent most of my afternoon's since my late teens reading and watching videoes of topics that intrigue me I am that pesky know-it-all. When I first get interested in a subject i consume EXTREME amounts of information until I'm satisfied. --- Some extra history: When I entered the last year of high school my interest for politics and rational thought (then channeled with intense focus on studying the irrationality of religion and social democratic politics) - this evolved into joining the most right-wing extremely soft libertarian political party (Progress Party) - which i gradually rose in the ranks of and became a County Advisor/Secretary - and also quit half way through my bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering to do that. The youth segment of this party was as always more radical than their mother party, and led me gradually down the path of libertarianism and rational politics - which landed me in no-man's land once again: the almost empty club of non-state believers. Result - self described personality today: My pre-frontal cortex is quite developed and forces K-traits/beliefs upon my r-selective brain. I am not depressed, I think, though I feel a great apathy towards the future (due to understanding of politics). When I watched video 2 I recogniced I'm all talk and no action - even though I really try my best to sort my shit out. What are your take on this FDR-community? Is there any way to mend a r-brain like mine?

Thanks for the kind words.Those are very good arguments, I'll come back when I'm not laying in bed and study them more thoroughly[]

I am sorry, ill with the flu here, my brain made "industry" into "facility".I will try to get myself to answer all the points, but what most boiled down to was the two things you pointed out A) Lawproduction in anarchocapitalism and how I believe it can produce really heinous laws and B) Minarchy/Anarchy which is better suited to survive.I'll be back later this evening trying to come up with a more consise response.

1: Production of laws will follow a market model right, isn't it expected that what people demand is what will survive in the law production facility? There are plenty of redneck towns around the world that would favor biblical laws for example. 2: Why both minarchy and anarchy needs people to truly respect NAP and individual rights to even be able to exist is quite obvious isn't it? If you have a huge majority within a society that loves the violent state of socialism; they will just enforce it anyway. Anarchy or minarchy.

1: If I rephrase it to: "Is it even rational to believe that a world without a shred of anarchism will have sustainable anarchism in the future?" does that make more sense?---The issue of minimal state.2: Why? This seems like a huge oversimplification. There are plenty of "societal" programs and politics which reduce or increase violence (not that I'm saying that couldn't be done without them). My problem is how is anarchy any better? How is an approximation to NAP worse than something that will surely produce laws that accept death penalities for different crimes and non-crimes (like blasphemy or just being a minority)? How can you even conclude that the horrible constitution of the US, which enabled the massive production of capitalism and freedom for a century (more or less). It was so flawed and even then it worked for a long while. The basis at which minarchy and anarchy can work is absolutely the same; people really need to believe in individual freedom, non-aggression and capitalism. Without it states will emerge non-the less. So how is anarchy better in the real world?For this seems to be the main argument; USA was the best approximation to freedom. But it had at no moment a constitution written so clearly it could not be accepted as anything but the meaning of it, which lead to politicians having something to work on to do their twisted acts.

Hi! I couldn't find any section in the forums which was titled: "Minarchist's annoying and repetitive questions", so I'll try here. My name is Martin, I'm a 21 year old norwegian freedom lover, a strong follower of the NAP, interested in philosophy and one of the most anti-state of the tumor-loving minarchists. I really would enjoy a state free world, if I could only believe it would be possible. Well is freedom possible at all in the current world? A few of my problems with anarchism have been put to peace, especially by watching Stefan's videos on the issues. Issues like how can freedom work today (No minarchy society today would survive due to the nature of politics, so the question becomes irrelevant) or how we could make services, which indoctrinated people like me can at first glance find difficult to comprehend, work without violence. My issues with a stateless society originate from three things; one is the nature of which anarchy can be abolished through concentration of military power and a sociopath in charge. Some minarchists would say that there is also no guarantee that liberty laws are produced, but that is a moot point; the same goes with minarchy. What does anarchists think about this? Is it even rational to believe that a world without a shred of anarchism will have sustainable state-less societies in the future? The second is a more pragmatic approach to the NAP; which society leads to less initiation of force? A minarchistic state, and let us ignore the problems of the growth of government for now (that is my last issue), can easily portray way more guarantee for the NAP as long as taxes and government are based on truly voluntary transaction of donations than a state free one. As well as the role of government being reduced to only guarantee that other nations do not use aggression towards this society and an institution of a small army that guarantees that law production agencies do not produce laws that directly abuses NAP. The last problem I have with anarchism, well it is actually about one of Stefan's major critiques of the minarchistic state; He says no peace of paper will stop an aggressor at the moment of violence; but the state is an "ecosystem" and cannot a structure of government with an undeniable strict and uncompromising constitution keep its limit. What about for example the Prime Law? (1: Do not break NAP 2: Force is only legal when someone breaks NAP" 3: 1 and 2 applies to all individuals, businesses, corporations or government and there shall be no exceptions.) Is it truly as easy as Stefan states it, that there is no possibility to create a freer society? I feel as if he overstates the difficulty of it and do not even address Prime Law and other attempts to create a near perfect constitution. I am sorry if this has already been answered before, but I couldn't find anything. Also there will be typos, english is not my mother tongue.