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 Chantalle rated 19 months ago - Thank you lisajojo
Transcribed from the video:
"...At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without voluntary consent.
The initiation of force or fraud to take life IS MURDER, to take liberty is SLAVERY and to take property is THEFT.
It is the same whether these act...
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- lisajojo rated 20 months ago
- Excellent graphic video that stimulates the mind.
- Chantalle rated 19 months ago
- Thank you lisajojo
Transcribed from the video:
"...At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without voluntary consent.
The initiation of force or fraud to take life IS MURDER, to take liberty is SLAVERY and to take property is THEFT.
It is the same whether these action are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against the few or even by officials with fine hats.
You have the right to protect your own life, liberty, and justly acquired property from the forceful aggression of others.
And you may ask others to help defend you.
But you do not have the right to initiate force against the life, liberty and property of others.
Thus, you have no right to designate some person to initiate force against others on your behalf.
You have the right to seek leaders for yourself but you have no right to impose rulers onto others.
No matter how officials are selected they are only human beings and they have no rights or claims that are higher than those of other human beings.
Regardless of the imaginative labels for their behavior or the numbers of people encouraging them, officials have no right to murder to enslave or to steal
You cannot give them any rights that you do not have yourself.
Since you own your life you are responsible for your life.
You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience.
Nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice.
You choose your own goals based on your own values.
Success and failure are both the necessary incentive to learn and grow.
Your action on behalf of others or their action on behalf of you is virtuous only when it is derived from voluntary mutual consent.
For virtue can exist only where there is FREE CHOICE.
THIS IS THE BASIS OF A TRULY FREE SOCIETY. IT IS NOT ONLY THE MOST PRACTICAL AND HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN ACTION IT IS ALSO THE MOST ETHICAL.
Problems in the world that arise from the initiation of force by government have a solution.
The solution is for the people of the earth to STOP asking government officials to initiate force on their behalf.
Evil does not arise only from evil people, but also from good people who tolerate the initiation of force as a means for their own ends.
In this manner, good people have empowered evil people throughout history.
Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to focus on some imposed vision or goal
Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth and typically results in unintended, perverse consequences.
Achieving a free society requires courage TO THINK, TO TALK and TO ACT.
Especially when it is easier to do Nothing... "
- raindrop rated 19 months ago
- nice
- mangacat rated 19 months ago
- Its nice others out there feel the same...
- Tancred rated 9 months ago
- An interesting video that provides perspective on the key concepts of liberty. Could use some antialiasing, though.
- chummers rated 8 months ago
- I think I should make my kids watch this. I think it should be part of the presidential campaign.
Follow up on this guy if you have not already:
"Ken Schoolland is a libertarian thinker and also presently an associate professor of economics and political science at Hawaii Pacific University. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies program at Chaminade University of Honolulu and head of the Business and Economics Program at Hawaii Loa College. Following his graduate studies at Georgetown University, he served as an international economist in the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and on assignment to the White House Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. Schoolland left government for the field of education, teaching business and economics at Sheldon Jackson College in Alaska. He also taught at Hakodate University in Japan and wrote Shogun's Ghost: The Dark Side of Japanese Education, which has been published in English and in Japanese. Schoolland is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Individual Liberty and is a Sam Walton Fellow for Students in Free Enterprise." from old trusty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Schoolland
I think the part about giving away your liberties is what is the most frightening of all.
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