Hello from ILO

[ILO]

I'm fully convinced that the non aggression principle is moral, (who isn't?) but somehow hadn't really noticed how government operates above it. I have been against the involuntary income tax for years because defense.gov/contracts seems to be an obvious racket. But there is a simple power in the moral argument against coercion & extortion in government that really hit me hard, in a good way.

 

I've watched so many Freedomain videos now over the last week or two that I don't recall how I stumbled into my first.

 

Thanks Stefan!

I should've said I hadn't noticed how government is founded on premises of coercion and extortion at it's core that violate the principle of non aggression, because that is what I had overlooked for most of my life, although I knew many aspects of government were corrupt, mismanaged, and doing more than it ought to be.

 

Is a government that does not use coercion & extortion, and is fully based on property rights & voluntarism still a government? Or does it become some other sort of organization?

 

I think anarchy is misunderstood & turns people back to government because we envision the kids with black masks who want to see the world burn and the streets in chaos. However I get great reception to the case for voluntarism, and against coercion/extortion.

[EricT]

Hello and welcome!

 

I guess what the government is doing is to govern. English is not my native language but to me, govern doesn´t sound like it discribes a volontary method of working together.

 

FDR podcasts are highly addictive, be careful.