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Should Inanimate Objects Be Banned as “Dangerous,” or Should Individuals Simply Be Held Accountable for Their Own Actions?

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The following debate originally took place upon the Facebook wall of family, after they posted a photo being shared by the page, “Young Americans for Liberty“…

Genaire:

“Used in fewer than 323 murders during 2011*. Used in 496 murders during 2011*. Which one should be banned? *(FBI annual crime statistics)”

Anke M.: Guns! All guns should be banned!

Genaire: I would agree if all guns were truly banned. Don’t let some have them and others not (that includes the police and military).

Anke M.: Could not agree more!

Anke M.:

Brian M.: People with long histories of non-violent conflict resolution should be forced to have more weapons. Give Gandhi a nuke.

Unable to keep the violent from weapons, the next best thing is to outgun the violent with people uninterested in violence.

Celebration of independence from tyranny should be demonstrated through the random discharge of explosives. Tyrants do not last in places where everyone can blow a person up.

Rayn: Fuck the State! Neither should be “banned,” as both are much-needed inventions, created for individual use!

Lest we forget, all of these worthless, obsolete “governments” in control of our planet can only legitimately claim legal jurisdiction over the lives of criminals! The innocent, meanwhile, are FREE! And, it’s precisely why the bureaucrats of each of these fraud-systems slowly and incrementally invent law after law to criminalize our humanity, while simultaneously legalizing their own criminality! It’s been the same process all over the world for thousands of years! Google “pathocracy” for more information!

Libertarianism Offers the LIBERTY of Individuality!

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “The Advocates for Self-Government,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"Libertarianism does not offer a way of life; it offers LIBERTY, so that each person is free to adopt and act upon his own values and moral principles." - Murray Rothbard

“Libertarianism does not offer a way of life; it offers LIBERTY, so that each person is free to adopt and act upon his own values and moral principles.” – Murray Rothbard

My Commentary: Rothbard refers to lower-case “l” libertarianism, of course… But, far be it from me to discourage any mindless Statists from regurgitating the pre-packaged talking-points they’ve been daily spoon-fed by the mainstream media monopoly…

Finally Accept the Fact that the Individual is the Smallest Minority on Earth!

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Freedom and Liberty for All,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own, which he is entitled to follow, can have no respect for the dignity of the individual, and cannot really know freedom.” – F. A. Hayek

My Commentary: Never lose sight of the fact that the Individual is “the smallest minority on Earth”!

Don’t Believe the State-Manufactured Hype!

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “V is for Voluntary,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“No one, bet it individual or government, engaged in enslaving and exploiting at home, could have the integrity or teh desire to free people in other lands.” – Emma Goldmanoit

My Commentary: “Don’t believe the hype!” – Public Enemy

The Voice of the Individual

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The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of my friend, and fellow Autistic self-advocate, Jason Ross…

2013-03-13 - The Voice of the Individual

Jason R.: Do the rich have the right to speak for the poor? or, Should every one be able to speak for themselves letting all voices be heard?

Samuel B.: everyone should be treated the same

Samuel B.: but sadly, sigh the world is a messed up place man

Michael S.: I think they can, if they have the right reasons and can actually do something for the poor. Don’t forget what FDR and Teddy Roosevelt did for the U.S. ( a lot more than many average Americans). I think that very often the poor who just talk and talk but can’t do anything for the poor should either find something else to do or, if they’re good teachers, become professors. That’s what they would be good at.

Rayn: As far as I’m concerned, those who are rich in Spirit feel absolutely no need to speak for those who are morally bankrupt! If anything, they typically speak AGAINST their corrupt ways!

Meanwhile, regardless of monetary wealth, no individual, nor group, has the right to speak for me BUT ME – unless I CHOOSE to CONSENT to such an arrangement! I don’t care how well-intentioned another feels he or she is, there is NO intention worth my non-consensual submission, and none worth my enforced silence! There is no “right reason” that would EVER logically bypass the fact that I AM AN Individual, with my OWN UNIQUE and VALID VOICE to exercise in this life! Those who deny this truth are just arrogant authoritarians, who could CARE LESS about any portion of humanity but their own selves!

Genaire: Despite Michael’s misguided beliefs everyone should have the right to speak for themselves. I grew up in the projects in the south Bronx and can tell you from experience the rich do not speak for me. The reason you are seeing the gap between the rich and poor growing at an alarming rate is due to the fact that our politicians are the one percent that will give themselves and their rich friends the sweetheart deals to further increase their wealth. While increasing the police force in the poorer neighborhood in an attempt to stop the unrest. Which leads to further incidents of police brutality which in turn leads to even more unrest.