LIBERTY
Based on the principle of self ownership you own your life – to deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on life than you do – no other person or group of people owns your life – nor do you own the lives of others.
– You exist in time this is manifest in past present and future
– To lose your life is to lose your future
– To lose your LIBERTY is to lose your present
– And to lose the product of your life and LIBERTY is to loose that portion of your past that produced it….. a product of your life and your LIBERTY.
– Property is the fruit of your labour the product of your time – energy – talents
– Property is that part of nature to which you turn to valuable use – or given to you by mutual consent and voluntary exchange
JUSTICE
The initiation of force or fraud
– TO TAKE A LIFE IS MURDER
– TO TAKE LIBERTY IS SLAVERY
– TO TAKE PROPERTY IS THEFT
Whether these action are done by one or the many against the few
-You have the right to protect your own life – liberty and justly acquired property from the forceful aggression of others
-You can ask others to help defend you BUT you DON’T have the right to initiate force against the life – LIBERTY – and property of others THEREFORE you have no right to designate some person to initiate force against others on your behalf
FREEDOM
You have the right to seek leaders for yourself but you have no right to impose rulers on others
– NO MATTER HOW OFFICIALS ARE SELECTED – they are only human beings and they have no rights
Or claims that are higher than those of any other human beings regardless of the title or numbers
of people encouraging them
Officials have no right to murder – enslave – or to steal
– You cannot give them any rights that you don’t have yourself
– Since you own your life you are responsible for your life you don’t rent your life from others who demand your obiendience – nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice
– You choose your own goals based on your own values
– SUCCESS AND FAILURE ARE BOTH NECESSARY TO ADVANCE
Your action on behalf of others OR their action on behalf of you is true only when it is derived from voluntary mutual consent – for truth can exist only where there is FREE choice
THIS IS THE BASIS OF A TRUELY FREE SOCIETY IT IS NOT ONLY THE MOST PRACTICAL FOUNDATION FOT HUMAN ACTION IT IS THE MOST ETHICAL
WE STOP EMPOWERING GOVERMENT OFFICIALS
Evil doesn’t only arise from evil people but also from good people who tolerate the initiation of force as a means to their own ends in this manner the good have empowered evil throughout history
– Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery to advance
– Rather than focus on some imposed vision or goal
– Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectually WEAK and results in unintended perverse consequences
ACHIEVING A FREE SOCIETY REQUIRES COURAGE
TO THINK
TO SPEAK
TO ACT
ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS EASIER TO DO NOTHING