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City Water Provided by the Private Sector

By Liberate RVA Updates On Saturday, March 12th, 2016 · Add Comment

Larry the socialist, a recurring character in my writing (see here, here, here, and here), cannot conceive of how the free market could possibly supply water. He believes that such a service is a “natural monopoly” that can only be provided through the oversight of a central authority. This in spite of the Flint water crisis, and evidence that “every major city east of the Mississippi” is deceiving their residents about the level of contamination in their water. When confronted with the idea of privatizing water supply and taking it out of the hands of governments, he had this to say,

“…we can also not convince every household to set up 15 pipes if there are 15 water providers.”

Larry is certainly not alone in his beliefs. This lack of imagination permeates mainstream thought, and is a common rebuttal of those who would seek [...]

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Anarchy Is Love

By Liberate RVA Updates On Saturday, September 12th, 2015 · Add Comment

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Why I Am An Anarchist

By Liberate RVA Updates On Sunday, August 9th, 2015 · Add Comment

The forest is nothing without the trees. If it is harmful to the individual, it is harmful to society. It is not a Free Market Economy vs. a Mixed Economy or Command Economy. It is economic slavery governed by a ruling elite vs. peaceful people engaging in voluntary and consensual interaction. A regulation is strangulating the entrepreneur/employer by means of violent legislation. A tax is currency that is extorted from an individual or business by the threat of kidnapping or death should that individual resist. Both taxes and regulations divert precious resources away from production and customer satisfaction in order to placate the political megalomaniacs who will waste that stolen currency on pork barrel projects, boondoggles, and violent occupations, invasions, assassinations, drone strikes, genocide, and overseas war. They drive up prices and sacrifice quality in the marketplace. It is one giant Broken Window Fallacy. It is always a lose-lose proposition.

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There Is No “Society”, There Are Only Individuals!

By Liberate RVA Updates On Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 · Add Comment

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Peaceful Parenting Breaks the Cycle of Violence

By Liberate RVA Updates On Monday, June 15th, 2015 · Add Comment

As a parent our first duty is to shield our children from overt injury as best we can without being over-bearing and smothering. I wouldn’t let my toddler play in a street with passing cars or play with knives. However I will not spank them for doing so. The fact that they do such things is more the parent’s fault than the child’s fault. Inflicting artificial pain only teaches them to use violence to solve their problems. If they are too young to reason, spanking them makes no sense as they cannot yet determine cause and effect. If they are old enough to reason then spanking is lazy parenting as it is resorting to violence when reasoning and calmly explaining things would be much more effective. Indeed how do you expect your child to begin reasoning if you demonstrate your lack of reasoning with them?

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City Water Provided by the Private Sector

Anarchy Is Love

Why I Am An Anarchist

There Is No “Society”, There Are Only Individuals!

Peaceful Parenting Breaks the Cycle of Violence

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