Mongolians are offended when a waitress calls you "Hun" because you're not Attila the Hun. Honey is even worse because it's the diminutive form of Hun.
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Demand Curves Slope Down. If you say something stupid, I will block you. If you say something I disagree with, I won't.
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I want gun control. I want to be able to control my lawnmower using my gun. Congress can't infringe my right to have gun control of my lawnmower. Keep, bear, and mow.
I am absolutely 100% sure that the libertarian way is the correct way to live.
Why? Because libertarians are not sure that theirs is the correct way to live.
Confusing? Let me explain. What makes the libertarian way (also known as classical liberalism) the correct way is *precisely* because libertarians are not sure that theirs is the correct way to live. Libertarians aren't going to force you to live their way, because after all, your way might be the right way.
Non-libertarians, on the other hand, are 100% sure that their way is the right way for EVERYONE to live. They are also sure that they are not wrong in this, so they can use coercion. Consequently, they think it's okay to shut wrong people up by censoring them. Or to force infidels to worship only in the approved manner. I mean, do you really want to risk your immortal soul by worshiping the wrong god or worshiping them the wrong way? Of course you don't, so just shut up and worship as you're told.
Of course, non-libertarians (center, left, and right) don't agree on what is the right way to live. They all agree that people must be forced to live the right way, which creates an obvious problem: whose way will be forced on people? This way lies madness, cruelty, destitution and violence. This is the road down which we are headed.
Do you think I'm wrong about non-libertarians because I'm not describing you? Then maybe, just maybe, you're a libertarian.
Real Americans (by which I mean libertarians and by which I mean to exclude everyone else) understand that there is no one truth other than the libertarian truth that nobody knows everything and everyone knows nothing about everyone. Consequently, we have free speech and no hate speech laws. Consequently, we let everyone keep and bear arms. Consequently, we let people worship as they wish, or assemble with others or print wrong things. Consequently, we let people keep secrets and don't force them to admit to crimes.
I know that I don't know what's right, but I do know that you don't know either. That's why I am a libertarian and you should be, too.
Why? Because libertarians are not sure that theirs is the correct way to live.
Confusing? Let me explain. What makes the libertarian way (also known as classical liberalism) the correct way is *precisely* because libertarians are not sure that theirs is the correct way to live. Libertarians aren't going to force you to live their way, because after all, your way might be the right way.
Non-libertarians, on the other hand, are 100% sure that their way is the right way for EVERYONE to live. They are also sure that they are not wrong in this, so they can use coercion. Consequently, they think it's okay to shut wrong people up by censoring them. Or to force infidels to worship only in the approved manner. I mean, do you really want to risk your immortal soul by worshiping the wrong god or worshiping them the wrong way? Of course you don't, so just shut up and worship as you're told.
Of course, non-libertarians (center, left, and right) don't agree on what is the right way to live. They all agree that people must be forced to live the right way, which creates an obvious problem: whose way will be forced on people? This way lies madness, cruelty, destitution and violence. This is the road down which we are headed.
Do you think I'm wrong about non-libertarians because I'm not describing you? Then maybe, just maybe, you're a libertarian.
Real Americans (by which I mean libertarians and by which I mean to exclude everyone else) understand that there is no one truth other than the libertarian truth that nobody knows everything and everyone knows nothing about everyone. Consequently, we have free speech and no hate speech laws. Consequently, we let everyone keep and bear arms. Consequently, we let people worship as they wish, or assemble with others or print wrong things. Consequently, we let people keep secrets and don't force them to admit to crimes.
I know that I don't know what's right, but I do know that you don't know either. That's why I am a libertarian and you should be, too.
There's a curious bridge in Collinsville NY (west of Lyons Falls). It's south of 12D and east of East Road. I once though it was built for the unfinished Ogdensburg, Clayton, & Rome railroad. Last time I posted it I was told that the farmer built it to get between his fields. Plus, the OC&R seems to have been routed further west, had it been built.
Who invented the rule that pedestrians on a rail-trail should face AWAY from overtaking bicycles?
That's silly. Pedestrians should walk on the left, and bicycles should ride on the right.
That's silly. Pedestrians should walk on the left, and bicycles should ride on the right.