Government--a group of people claiming immunity from simple moral judgment (don't hit people and don't take their stuff)
Why don't we have a system in which people and their property are respected consistently and universally?
Objective law entails honoring individual rights
Ideas rule the world, not guns and jail cells
The idea of government gives "legitimacy" to rights-violations
Market monopolies are fundamentally different than coercive monopolies
The Question of Monopolies by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/articles_essays/question_of_monopolies.html
(also in http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Ideal-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451147952 )
Coercive monopolies exist in regulated economies like today's
Local utilities are a prime example of coercive monopolies
People tend to project their fears of others onto property owners, ignoring their present enslavement by statism
HOA's don't exactly uphold freedom principles
Surrendering one's autonomy is part and parcel of statism
Enforcing irrational, immoral, and unjust laws is the supposed "job" of "police officers"
Governmental laws are basically the nonsensical scribblings of control-freak mentalities
Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope by Kim Zetter
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/kamwamba-windmill/
Governmental "aid" (i.e., expropriated tax dollars) fosters dependence and perpetuates human suffering
Morality entails the virtue of independence, not dependence
Freedom—An Ethical Issue - http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreedomethica.html
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Aid-Working-Better-Africa/dp/0374139563/
Dambisa Moyo, Author Of Dead Aid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBH47mByATc
Dambisa Moyo discusses Dead Aid with an MP - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Pkk2sq9Cg
Mysticism crowds out rationality, and when mysticism creeps into daily affairs, it can be deadly
Superstitions are rampant in tribes, where conformity to the group and mystical "causality" reigns
The Early Human Condition - http://www.logicallearning.net/libearlyhumancon.html
Creators are not selfless; each creator lives for his or her own sake
A mystical metaphysics inverts the nature of reality and logical causality
A solid, objective, metaphysics leads to understanding reality correctly and respecting others achievements
Identity And Causality, And The Use Of Logic - http://www.logicallearning.net/libidentitycausa.html
Female genital mutilation is one horrible outcome of the tribal mentality and superstitious beliefs
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_cutting
William Kamkwamba on building a windmill
http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_windmill.html
Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_filter.html
How much more generous and charitable would people be if taxation (and government itself) didn't exist?
Ask Dr. Ruwart - What is the libertarian approach to developing alternative energy sources?
http://www.theadvocates.org/liberator/vol-14-num-16.html
Coercion can't achieve benevolent ends
In a free market, entrepreneurs see needs, ascertain what people value, and respond accordingly
Inside the Nobel Prize: How a CCD Works by Charlie Sorrel
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/ccd-inventors-awarded-nobel-prize-40-years-on/
bumper music "It's My Life" by Dr. Alban
http://www.dralban.net/
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