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    Why True Advocates For Liberty Focus So Strongly On The Power of Ideas

    Ron Paul Liberty Report
    7/17/2019

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    Did you ever build a house, and when it was completed say to yourself: "I have a great idea. I should build a house."

    Of course not!

    The idea always comes first.

    The actions, the circumstances, the effects never precede the idea. So if circumstances are bad, it necessarily means that bad ideas preceded them. Somewhere, the truth has been missed, or ignored, or neglected. This is why true advocates for Liberty are always hyper-focused on sharing the ideas of freedom.

    Not "spreading" freedom.

    Not "imposing" freedom.

    Not "granting" freedom.

    Liberty already is. It's the natural condition of every individual. The bad ideas of power have merely concealed it from view.

    The ideas of Liberty are incredibly simple. Everyone is born free, but that freedom has some very simple limitations -- the person and property of other individuals.

    To put it bluntly: Keep your hands off other people and their stuff.

    No aggressive force. Just voluntary interactions and exchanges with others.

    Force (if it is ever to be used) is to defend yourself and your property from others who may decide to aggress against you. That's the purpose of force --- to repel aggression.

    There are no exceptions for aggression either. You can't call a gang of people "government" and just give them permission use force against others on your behalf.

    No contracting out of your tyranny.

    Obviously, one look at all the circumstances happening in the world, and you find out very quickly that the ideas of Liberty have many competitors. Force is the name of the game all over the world. The only question is who wields it, and who is on the receiving end.

    Bad ideas. Bad results.

    The worst of humanity is put on display every single day....all for the purpose of gaining control of the reins of power.

    It should not surprise you that the peddlers of the ideas of power take a different route. They seek to force their ideas on everyone else. Everyone must comply because they say so. There are so many examples that one can write a whole book on the repeated failures of this approach.

    But whether it be the Jacobins of the 1700's, the Bolsheviks of the 1900's, or modern-day Neoconservatives, they all seek to forcefully re-make others, and they all fail spectacularly despite all the precedents set before them.

    This is not the road for the advocate of Liberty. The libertarian merely expresses and explains what it means to live a life of freedom and then leaves it up to the listeners to decide. What the listeners decide to believe is 100% up to them.

    It's up to everyone individually to embrace the ideas of Liberty. There is no magic wand. There is no white knight who is going to gallop in on his white horse to set everyone straight. For that would be tyranny as well.

    Liberty is a FAR superior idea to power.

    That truth is sufficient.


    http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/...power-of-ideas
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    An Agorist Primer ~ Samuel Edward Konkin III (free PDF download)

    The End of All Evil ~ Jeremy Locke (free PDF download)



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    Good ideas don't require force, but using force does make it better.

    It's what turns a good idea into a Great idea
    It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
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    What if bad ideas use force against the good ideas?
    "I shall bring justice to Westeros. Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that."
    -Stannis Baratheon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Philhelm View Post
    What if bad ideas use force against the good ideas?
    Then you have that inherent right to defend and protect yourself, not push your problems onto somebody else.
    ____________

    An Agorist Primer ~ Samuel Edward Konkin III (free PDF download)

    The End of All Evil ~ Jeremy Locke (free PDF download)

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAF View Post
    Then you have that inherent right to defend and protect yourself, not push your problems onto somebody else.
    In other words, good ideas sometimes require force in self defense.
    "I shall bring justice to Westeros. Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that."
    -Stannis Baratheon

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    FLIP THOSE FLAGS, THE NATION IS IN DISTRESS!


    why I should worship the state (who apparently is the only party that can possess guns without question).
    The state's only purpose is to kill and control. Why do you worship it? - Sola_Fide

    Baptiste said.
    At which point will Americans realize that creating an unaccountable institution that is able to pass its liability on to tax-payers is immoral and attracts sociopaths?



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