RE: Knowing The Difference Between Right & Wrong
Great Work, my friend! These words have the power to break the glamour that bewitches the masses. You see folks, this is how it’s done - this guy quit his job for moral reasons! Imagine that. What are you willing to give up?
Not only is all immorality theft, but it is an infringement upon freedom. What’s being stolen is the inherent freedom of the individual in every case. This is an important point, because it highlights freedom as intrinsically linked with good. Freedom is not just a desirable condition, It is an inherent quality of ALL that is good. Its absence turns a good into an evil. Its absence is the perversion that makes evil evil.
This recognition highlights freedom’s importance, raising it way up the scale of priorities. Some believe they must sacrifice some freedoms to protect others, but when you realize you’re not just making a neutral decision to forgo the convenience of freedom, but actually transmuting good into evil any time freedom is sacrificed, you may be more hesitant to make that decision.
After all, all we do is in the name of improvement, with the purported goal of moving toward greater good. So willingly turning good to evil is definitively ill-advised, once recognized as such.
Exactly, great comment!
In this day and age of information, "not recognizing" Natural Law is willful ignorance.
Absolutely. And this is generally a cause of great anger and frustration for me because I feel these people deserve to be treated as any other aggressor. If a person was going to hire a hitman, it would seemingly be justified to use force to stop them. So if a person is going to vote for a politician to enslave you, what’s the difference?
However, my recent studies have helped me move toward an intellectual understanding of what my heart already knew - attacking statists who hear our words but do not heed them is not the way to go. It is not acting from Love.
Love is the force that moral law attempts to describe.
Yeah, Ive been there.
I think most people who have come to terms with reality have been through the same growing process, which includes self loathing and loathing humanity as a whole.
You're right it is all about Love. Do we make decisions and take action based out of Love or fear?
I appreciate your comments, it's great to communicate with others who have reached an understanding of the state we're in, and even more importantly: What we must do to get out of it. Our solutions are not elusive and complex. All wee need is Love and the Courage to back it up.
Yeah man, same here. I find a key realization to be the independence of our decision. When we have these conversations, it’s as though people believe a decision is being made for the world. As though if they accept the inherent immorality and invalidity of external authority, then the world will become anarchistic immediately and they will have to deal with the perceived negative consequences.
The reality is that we are only making a decision for our position and behavior, which is rather inconsequential in the short-term. In other words, there is nothing to fear by choosing reality, because the change won’t come until many more people make that decision to be moral. And once that happens, the many dangers they fear will be obviated by the cultural shift toward higher consciousness.
I hope I’m explaining this well; it’s a subtle nuance of the conversation with statists. Instead of thinking “what should the world be like?” we should put the focus on “what should I be doing to be the change I want to see in the world?” or “how should I behave, such that if everyone did as I do, the world would be a better place?” We’re not making decisions for the world, just ourselves. This takes some of the sting out of the decision; we don’t need to consider how everyone else will behave in the society we’re trying to bring about, because by the time the required number of morally-comitted individuals is reached for the change to occur, many of the feared outcomes will be mitigated, if not rendered wholly impossible.
Hit the nail on the head.
Humanity has become so self loathing that the idea of depending on someone as inadequate as themselves scares the shit out of most people. It's all smoke and mirrors. People are afraid that lack of government would cause chaos, scarcity and violence when in fact government is the main cause of chaos, scarcity and violence (or rather a reflection of the internal chaos we face).
Are the people that need "the sting" taken out of the fact that the world is the way it is because of the way we are likely to be capable of the self reflection necessary to change the world?
Are our worse fears possible in a state of freedom? Of course they are. They are even more possible now however, under the rule of criminals and false belief systems. I would even go as far as to say most of the things we are afraid of happening are happening now in spite of our denial and ignorance.
These fears are part of the dragon we must face and conquer on our path of self development. We need to be willing to stand for what is Right - even in the face of death.
Well said! It’s simply a case of “The devil that you know...” Even the Libertarian tent-pitchers fall victim to this insanity, despite their fallacious claim to being “freedom-minded” (all the more true of right-wingers).
They say, “But, China”, “But Russia” (the very fact they use these two examples proves they’re still tuned-in to their friendly neighboorhood network news team), and I want to say, “But, America!” You’re already living under the tyranny you fear, though perhaps more like Huxley’s model than Orwell’s... for the time being.
They think China can (or even wants to) ship its entire military here (3 million vs. 325 million, btw), and fight town by town across a whole half-continent? In an unwilling free society with no government to usurp, they would have to create government from scratch and supply millions of bureaucrats and enforcers to hold what was gained and establish their rule. It’s cost-prohibitive, never mind the logistics. An absolute impossibility IF Americans were willing to “Live free or die.”
Not that any of that matters anyway. I’m all about the categorical imperative - if man will be destroyed under free, moral conditions, then he does not deserve to live. Bring it on - fire and fury, kids and all - let us live right or die trying.