https://youtu.be/ikey9sLQYvc If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were uniform, inter- changeable, devoid of specific personality traits of their own, then who would care whether they were free or not? Who, indeed, would care if they lived or died? The glory of the human race is the uniqueness of each individual, the fact that every person, though similar in many ways to others, possesses a completely individuated personality of his own. It is the fact of each person’s uniqueness—the fact that no two people can be wholly...
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Thinking Philosophically to Avoid Getting Manipulated. Brain in a Vat & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/9geCepEjqsI The glory of the human race is the uniqueness of each individual, the fact that every person, though similar in many ways to others, possesses a completely individuated personality of his own. It is the fact of each person’s uniqueness — the fact that no two people can be wholly interchangeable — that makes each and every man irreplaceable and that makes us care whether he lives or dies, whether he is happy or oppressed. And, finally, it is the fact that these unique personalities need freedom for their full development that constitutes one of the major...
Supreme Court Live Oral Arguments On Biden Vaccine Mandates
The Supreme Court will live broadcast the oral arguments on whether or not to halt some of Biden's vaccine mandates. https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx Attorny Robert Barnes and Eric Hunley are covering this live. Robert Barnes is covering the Supreme Court arguments Today at SCOTUS: The court hears arguments on two major Biden administration vaccine policies as a surge in COVID cases sweeps America. The policies at stake: a vaccine-or-test requirement for workers at large employers, and a vaccine mandate for workers at health care centers....
Vaccines, Autonomy, and Mandates: A Libertarian Analysis
Prefatory Note Given the subject matter discussed below, I believe it prudent to state at the outset that I am not at all opposed to vaccinations themselves: indeed, I have received a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as all other normal-course vaccinations recommended for someone my age. Yet there are, it seems to me, interesting, difficult questions surrounding the state’s role in promoting or mandating vaccines. The goal here is to start a conversation not about the effectiveness of vaccines, but about the individual’s sphere of autonomy and what kinds of medical decisions are within it, and...
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network television. Virtue theory, in contrast, is a teleological approach to normative morality concerned with how actions affect one’s soul or character. Historians of philosophy usually trace virtue theory to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, the first extant articulation of ideas such as that habits build character, and virtues...
Breaking The Cycle w/Josh Smith
Josh Smith joined me to talk about the libertarian party, his future in the libertarian party, and arguments against the libertarian party as a solution. Josh Smith Twitter Josh Link Tree Break The Cycle 19 Skills Pdf Autonomy Course Critical Thinking Course Donate Patreon...
Episode 584: *Flashback* Three Marine Corps Vets Explain Why You Should Never Join the Military
78 Minutes Not Safe for Work Pete invited Jared, Luke and Typo from the Biting the Bullet podcast to come on the show. The BTB podcast is three Marine Corps veterans who do their best to warn people off of joining the military. Pete asked them to come on and give their best arguments for why no one should ever join the military. This is an episode you can share with anyone you know who is thinking of enlisting. Biting the Bullet Podcast Get Autonomy 19 Skills PDF Download The Monopoly On Violence Pete's Patreon Pete's Substack Pete's Paypal Pete's Books on Amazon Pete on Facebook Pete on...
Everything They Touch Turns To Sh*t
“Everyone has a right to affordable health care!” “Everyone has a right to go to college!” “Everyone has a right to own a home, it’s the American Dream!” We’ve all heard these. Some of us have even believed them, but do you honestly believe the government can give this to you? Do you think it’s their job? I’m sure we are all familiar with the term “reform.” It’s a political phrase like no other in that it tells you that every government plan is a failure. Just about everything they do is “reforming” their previous mistakes that have caused massive debt and further dependence on them. If...
Who Killed Bond Yields?
Central Banks of course. "In lieu of common sense, however, the guilty will use a whole lot of those impressive sounding words to obfuscate instead of argument, while very much counting otherwise on the favorable rulings of the judge (politicians) who lets this charade go on and on because the judge also knows that if the truth ever got out they’d be right there in the defendant’s chair with the central bankers."...
Ukrainian Police Official Requests List of Jews in Western City of Kolomyya
Seems like just the other day I got in an argument with a guy about whether the U.S. had backed a Nazi street putsch in Kiev in February 2014. Sure looks like it to me. At least Andriy Parubiy isn't the speaker of the Parliament any more.