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RE: A Short Musing on Law: Is America a Voluntaryist Country?
I subscribe to Malcolm Reynolds theory of self-defense.
That said, the best case scenario is always to live one's life in such a way
where nobody tries to kill you. I think that's what Sun Tzu may have meant.
Sun Tzu... It's funny that you should mention him. He was a military adviser, and his "job" was to make sure his boss always won military operations. He certainly was not promoting to live one's life in such a way where nobody tries to kill you. That's impossible if you are in the fight. No, really. It's impossible. How could I turn a blind eye when an innocent person is being hurt? How could I turn a blind eye when a pedo defender outs themselves and turns out to be a child martial arts instructor? No, I refuse. I'm in the fight, and being in the fight means I have lots of enemies.
I've had lots of enemies for years too. Anyone living their life to make sure nobody tries to kill them is living as a coward and is not a warrior. They are not in the fight, and they are not, in my opinion at least, spending their life as they should. We were meant to be warriors, and bad people win when people don't be warriors. You can't go through life without making enemies. You would not be standing up for anything if that's what was happening. Ideas need to be defended. People and their property need to be defended. One of my favorite quotes is from Sun Tzu:
He wasn't talking about using words either. He was talking about using violence to destroy your enemies.