https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/members/Autodidact/default.aspxen-USCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/members/Autodidact/announcements/default.aspxSun, 10 Apr 2011 07:22:16 GMTAutodidactYou know what? I hate forums. I hate the people here. Screw this place.https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/members/Autodidact/announcements/default.aspxSun, 06 Feb 2011 16:21:52 GMTAutodidactI am highly suspicious of any 'libertarian' who considers the pet preferences of non-violent individuals to be a 'barrier' to his vision of society.. It strikes me as a rebirth of Millenialism in a secular, libertarian guise; the inability to mind one's own business and leave well enough alone. The same spirit that prompted prohibition animates many of these 'left' libertarians. Also the existence of 'racism' in the West, outside of liberal PC attitudes towards minorities, is grossly exagerrated. Robert M. Thornton wrote of Albert Jay Nock that, "Albert Jay Nock was not a reformer and found offensive any society with a “monstrous itch for changing people.” He had “a great horror of every attempt to change anybody; or I should rather say, every wish to change anybody; for that is the important thing.” Whenever one “wishes to change anybody, one becomes like the socialists, vegetarians, prohibitionists; and this, as Rabelais says, ‘is a terrible thing to think upon.’” The only thing we can do to improve society, he declared, “is to present society with one improved unit.” Let each person direct his efforts at himself or herself, not others; or as Voltaire put it, “Il faut cultiver notre jardin.” I ardently agree. Let people be, and stop poking around in their business. They might be inclined to do the same for you. Blowback is not merely a military concept, it has applications across the spectrum of human society.