To listen to the podcast, click here. June 25th 2019 So a guy on Twitter had an interesting, common, but important question today. He said, "Is the fact we don't spank our children the reason why there are so many unruly children these days?" Now, spanking is a violation of the nonaggression principle: it is … Continue reading Thought Bites: “Kids are unruly because they’re not spanked!”
Category: Philosophy
The Propaganda War: How You Might Be Murdered
To listen to the podcast, click here. Stefan Molyneux gives a dramatic retelling of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. So picture this. Picture a cave, like an upside-down bowl. It's huge. And people are born and put in chains. And forced to sit facing a wall. Now, behind them is a big fire. And in … Continue reading The Propaganda War: How You Might Be Murdered
Nihilism: An Examination
To listen to the podcast, click here. We are going to have a little tour through the foggy land of nihilism, because it's a topic that has come up QUITE a little bit on the Freedomain Radio boards and in the chat room. So, let's have a look at nihilism and see if we can't … Continue reading Nihilism: An Examination
Guns, Gods and Goodness – The Use and Abuse of Ethics
To listen to the podcast, click here. There’s a very tragic continuum in human thought, wherein in general if somebody tends to be less religious, and they tend to be more statist. Like Communists are atheists, most socialists are agnostics, and so on. Whereas somebody tends to be anti-state, then there is a tendency … Continue reading Guns, Gods and Goodness – The Use and Abuse of Ethics
Guys Like Lenny Will Save Us!
To listen to the podcast, click here. So if you’re a statist, do you ever wonder how you sound to a non-statist? Like, I get how voluntarists sound to statists: EAT THE POOR! BUILD ROADS FROM THE BONES OF THE SICK! Cause the children to be raised in the rank weeds of ignorance! No … Continue reading Guys Like Lenny Will Save Us!
The State and Sports
To listen to the podcast, click here. Well, good afternoon! It is 5 o’clock, December the 18th. I’m on my way home. So, I have had this topic that I’ve wanted to chat about for couple of days. It’s a wee bit of a departure, but I think it’s an interesting topic, which is … Continue reading The State and Sports
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