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ashortageofsand (29)in #libertarian • 7 years ago
Casting the First Stone: Christians and Victimless Crime
Any who dare to question the legitimacy of the state must be ready to endure ridicule. Libertarian Christians, however, face what amounts to excommunication as well. Of course…
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ashortageofsand (29)in #education • 7 years ago
Public education is insane!
I was homeschooled my whole life. Among other things, this meant I’d never had a grade before I came to college. Naturally, now that I’m a freshman and I’m getting grades, I’ve…
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ashortageofsand (29)in #anarchism • 7 years ago
Tolkien the Anarchist
The only things more beautiful than stateless societies are the works of Professor J. R. R. Tolkien. It is no surprise then, that Tolkien himself was a proponent of anarchy.…
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ashortageofsand (29)in #writing • 7 years ago
Why Citing Sources Is Cool and How You Should Do It
I'm not going to lie: I hate citing my sources. It's not that I want to "steal the glory" or anything. Plagiarism is the last thing on my mind. It's just that it's so dang…
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ashortageofsand (29)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
The Moral Failure of the Minimum Wage
Few victims of hardship earn as much sympathy as the “worker.” The great leftist Karl Marx devoted much of his Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital to an analysis of the…
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ashortageofsand (29)in #economics • 7 years ago
How Good Intentions Have Destroyed Economic Justice
The famed observer of democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, writes that, though democratic nations love freedom, “for equality they have an ardent, insatiable, eternal, invincible…
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ashortageofsand (29)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Government
“In the beginning, the universe was created,” explains author Douglas Adams. He goes on to point out: “This has made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a…
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ashortageofsand (29)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
Why Freedom Matters
Everyone has a purpose. It is irrelevant to our current discussion whether that purpose is something transcendent or objective, or whether it is subjective and relative to the…
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