Complete Liberty Podcast
Show that promotes total respect for self-ownership, property rights, and personal choice--amidst the authoritarian/obedience-oriented political and psychological memes in American culture (and elsewhere). Basically, governments and all they entail are the problem, not the solution. Voluntarism (or market anarchism, or anarcho-capitalism) and customary law principles, in accordance with reason and dignity, spell the solution. www.completeliberty.com

http://schoolsucksproject.com/197-the-sudbury-school-22-a-step-in-the-right-direction/

http://twobeerswithsteve.libsyn.com/complete-liberty-with-wes-bertrand

Troubled Family Life Changes Kids' Brains by Ian Chant
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=troubled-family-life-changes-kids-b

Whenever the "common good" is put above the individual good, human beings get sacrificed. Thus, by upholding what's best for individuals (i.e., respecting their freedoms), the "good" of society (i.e., of a group of individuals) is fostered

The Science of Libertarian Morality - A social psychology study explores the formation of the libertarian personality by Ronald Bailey
http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/20/the-science-of-libertarian-mor

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sacrifice.html

http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreedomethica.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_wright_on_optimism.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html

bumper music "My Sacrifice" by Creed
http://creed.com

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Direct download: Episode_179_-_Libertarian_ethics_and_the_meme_of_sacrifice.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:37pm EDT

Upcoming nvc conference in SoCal in April
http://chooseconnection.squarespace.com/nvc-conference/

Bali drugs: Death sentence for Briton Lindsay Sandiford
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21137649
http://www.news.com.au/world/british-woman-gets-bali-death-sentence-over-cocaine-smuggling/story-fndir2ev-1226559509016

Freedom--An Ethical Issue
http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreedomethica.html

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/morality.html
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/self-interest.html

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_nonfiction_introduction_to_objectivist_epistemology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality

I invite you to participate in an eight-week counseling group (each weekly session will be 1.5hrs)--please email me at wes@happinesscounseling.com, and we'll fine-tune the program.
http://happinesscounseling.com/group-sessions-2/

bumper music "The Great Divide" by VNV Nation
http://www.vnvnation.com/

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Direct download: Episode_178_-_Philosophy_of_ethics_and_morality.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:20pm EDT