Keith Knight | The Libertarian Institute

Putting Massive Unnecessary Obligations on Strangers Does Not Make You a Good Person

by Keith Knight | Dec 10, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized

The true humanitarian rejoices when the people he helps feel ready to assert their independence and to strike out on their own; for isn’t this independence essential to being truly human? - Dr. Murray N. Rothbard, Left and Right, pp. 307–08 Government is the very negation of charity, for charity is uniquely an unbought gift , a freely fl owing uncoerced act by the giver. - Dr. Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, p. 1228 ... it is hardly “charity” to take wealth by force and hand it over to someone else. Indeed, this is the direct opposite of...

Kyle Kulinski Doesn’t Understand Slavery

by Keith Knight | Dec 8, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized

UBI = Slavery. Social Security = Slavery. Universal Healthcare = Slavery. Wage Slavery = FREEDOM. - Kyle Kulinski (@seculartalk) If "wage slavery" is in fact slavery, Kulinski and the like must advocate abolishing College since it requires thousands of hours of work for $0.00 an hr. My "wage slave owners" voluntarily offer me money, products, and services. My body my choice pal. Kulinski and other taxation advocates believe you and I should be caged and separated from our families by the police if we don't chip in for wars based on lies, schools which after 12 years turn people into morons,...

Cops, Kidnappers, and Assassins Are Just Doing Their Jobs!

by Keith Knight | Dec 3, 2022 | Blog

Imagine a police officer arresting you for the crime of selling "drugs". Later in court, the judge asks you how you plea, to which you respond, "Innocent your Highness! For I am a drug dealer. I was just doing my job. My boss, Pablo Escobar told me to do this. If you guys don't like us doing this, apply for a job at our drug cartel, work your way through our system, and persuade Mr. Escobar to change his policy." This is no different in principle than, "I'm a cop, just doing my job destroying food that homeless people need because politicians or a police chief told me to do so. Don't...

Message to Jacobin Magazine: Economic Suppression is Far Worse Than Voter Suppression

by Keith Knight | Nov 27, 2022 | Blog

Imagine two criminals: Criminal 1: Forcibly stopped a woman from having a 1 in 10 million vote to determine the governor of New York Criminal 2: Forcibly stopped a woman from getting the job of her dreams via occupational licensing regulations even though a willing employer wanted to hire her You are the judge in both trials, which criminal should get a longer sentence? Criminal 1's actions may be offensive, but have no effect on the outcome of the woman's life since a one in 10 million vote will make no difference. Even if by some miracle she happened to be the deciding vote,...

The “Greedy Private Property” Deception

by Keith Knight | Nov 26, 2022 | Blog

A "property right" entitles one party to exclude another from interacting with a scarce part of the universe - i.e. to have a property right in my car entitles me to exclude others from driving it to Dallas when I wish to drive it to Phoenix. There is no principled difference between excluding someone from a car, a computer, a house, or if you start selling things out of the house and it's now a "business" involving a web of voluntary contracts. The (democratic) socialist sees this and assumes: Exclusion exists Excluding X from Y means X will have less "liberty" Private property is...

Scott Adams Tweeted Something So Imbecilic It Ruined My Thanksgiving

by Keith Knight | Nov 24, 2022 | Blog

I wasn't expecting to see a compelling argument for letting the state raise kids instead of parents, but here it is. - Scott Adams The situation is as follows: Person X committed murder Person X was raised by a Parent Y who is an explicit bigot and advocate of violence Therefore, Adams says, we have a compelling argument for "letting" the state raise kids The question is: Can the shortcomings of Person X and Parent Y also be applied to the state? 1. Have members of governments ever committed murder? Let's not be bigoted and only stick to the US government, let us get a global...

An Economics Lesson for Idiot Robert Reich

by Keith Knight | Nov 20, 2022 | Blog

...Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, became one of the wealthiest men in the world by figuring out how to cut the price of just about everything to the benefit of everyone, but especially of lower-income consumers. That’s one of the other virtues of the free market: it rewards people who can figure out how to supply products and services that might have originally only been affordable to the wealthy so cheaply that just about anyone can afford and enjoy them. Henry Ford became wealthy by producing cheaper and cheaper (and better and better quality) automobiles; John D. Rockefeller became...

Sam Harris Is Dumber Than I Thought

by Keith Knight | Nov 19, 2022 | Blog

"The sovereign citizen lunatic cult in white society" is what Sam Harris calls someone who has the same standards for the police they would have for anyone else. You know what sounds like a cult? A person (President/Congress) who claims the right to issue executive orders or laws that must be obeyed and those who disobey will be jailed. A group that forces you to fund them regardless of whether or not you value their services (government taxation). An organization which compels children to be indoctrinated in its schools for 12 years (government truancy laws). Being heavily pressured...