Stefan Molyneux Posted February 20, 2006 Posted February 20, 2006 Thanks for taking the time to come to this discussion board - we are always eager and happy to chat with new members! My name is Stefan Molyneux, and I am the host of the radio show and the moderator of this board. The purpose of this board is to discuss anarchy, atheism, morality, philosophy, psychology, politics and government (whew!), and many of the discussions are driven by topics in the Freedomain Radio show. In general, the people who post on this board are interested in exploring the true nature of political power, and how societies can run without a centralized political State telling everyone what to do. We are almost all pacifists, in that we despise the use of violence above all else - except in very rare circumstances of self-defense. Government is an agency which claims a monopoly of the use of violence in society, and we strenuously object to that claim. Morality is a universal absolute, and what is wrong for private citizens must therefore also be wrong for politicians, policeman, soldiers, prison guards, court judges, and so on. It is wrong for you and I to steal, therefore it is wrong for the government to steal our money in the form of taxes. You and I cannot force other people to obey our whims - and therefore politicians cannot force other people either! We do not believe that government -- or the use of violence - is ever a legitimate solution to complex social problems. Poverty, drug use, welfare, health care, old age pensions, war, crime - all these complex problems are simply made worse by the government barging in and throwing the armed might of the State around. So thanks again for dropping by - we welcome positive contributions to the art and science of discovering how society can best work in the absence of government!
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