F.A. Harper on Democracy
Few words get the good PR that democracy does. Americans are told we must fight for democracy around the world.
Few words get the good PR that democracy does. Americans are told we must fight for democracy around the world.
This is what makes The Lord of the Rings a much better means for conceptualizing the ideas of freedom than Atlas Shrugged.
The fact that animals can obviously not petition for their "rights" is part of their nature, and part of the reason why they are clearly not equivalent to, and do not possess the rights of, human beings.
But what you are not permitted to do in a free market is use violence in the attempt to create an artificial scarcity, which is all that IP legislation really does.
There’s a brand of whiny, journalists who use nostalgia to attack the affluence that capitalism has bestowed on us.
[This article is taken from chapter 19 of The Ethics of Liberty.