{"id":28456,"date":"2017-12-01T06:58:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28456"},"modified":"2017-12-01T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:58:11","slug":"what-we-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28456","title":{"rendered":"What We Can Do\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What We Can Do\u2026<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Until enough people\u2019s minds are changed about coercion and collectivism, resistance is<\/em> futile. The debate will continue to be about how much<\/em> should be stolen from whom<\/em> and for what purpose<\/em> \u2013 rather than about whether anything<\/em> should be stolen by anyone<\/em> for any<\/em> purpose.<\/p>\n

As things are, many people believe it is<\/em> ok to steal from others \u2013 provided the stealing is done on their behalf by other people (these are called \u201ctax collectors\u201d) and the stolen goods are called by pleasant but intellectually dishonest, morally evasive names (examples include Social Security, welfare, foreign aid, grants<\/em> and so on).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Using this technique of doublethink, people are able to do things to other people \u2013 or urge they be done to other people, on their behalf \u2013 without feeling ashamed or guilty, as they would if they were to do these things themselves, personally.<\/p>\n

This \u201csurgical excision\u201d of the psychologically normal human revulsion for other-than-defensive violence and for the use of violence to take things from others is the keystone of the coercive collectivist system. Dislodge it and the whole edifice collapses.<\/p>\n

It is that simple \u2013 and that hard.<\/p>\n

Simple, because the moral principle is already<\/em> established.<\/p>\n

Excluding psychological defectives \u2013 the relatively small population in every society that does not<\/em> feel ashamed or guilty about the use of violence (these people are called \u201ccriminals\u201d) most people <\/em>do feel ashamed and guilty when they steal or resort to violence.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And hence, most people do not steal or resort to violence<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It is a broadly accepted moral principle that theft and violence are wrong things; that those who steal and threaten to harm others in order to get what they want are not good people. This is half the battle, already won.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What We Can Do\u2026 Until enough people\u2019s minds are changed about coercion and collectivism, resistance is futile. The debate will continue to be about how much should be stolen from whom and for what purpose \u2013 rather than about whether anything should be stolen by anyone for any purpose. As things are, many people believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7742,1311,1788,13503,10622,1248],"class_list":["post-28456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-coercion","tag-collectivism","tag-doublethink","tag-eric-peters","tag-eric-peters-autos","tag-individualism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28457,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28456\/revisions\/28457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}