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Daniel Alexander Brackins
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The Hidden Power of “They”: How Undefined Pronouns Manipulate You
Language shapes perception. And sometimes, the most manipulative language is the vaguest. One of the most common tools of persuasion, and manipulation, isn’t a complicated argument or a well-sourced fact. It’s a single, slippery pronoun: “they.” And it goes unnoticed.
On the surface, “they” seems harmless. But when used without definition, “they” becomes a psychological lever that can rally crowds,
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The Libertarian Ideal: Self-Determination, Direct Democracy, and the Service State
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“Property rights are the foundation necessary to explain the role of non-aggression. In other words, the non-aggression principle is simply another of way of saying individuals have a right against aggression from others as a result of property. Non-aggression alone does not tell us what property rights people have, or why they have these rights to begin with.”
― Private Property, Law, and the State
― Private Property, Law, and the State
“Ultimately it must be accepted by advocates of limited government that the same guns that are promised to protect the population may be used on them.”
― Private Property, Law, and the State
― Private Property, Law, and the State
“Any moral ethic worth examining must be universal. That is if something is right or wrong for me, it must also be right or wrong for you. This is a system of ethics that applies universally to all individuals regardless of culture, nationality, race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, wealth, or any other distinguishing feature. Otherwise, we would have difficulty judging human action.”
― Private Property, Law, and the State
― Private Property, Law, and the State
“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.”
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“If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.”
― Democracy: The God That Failed
― Democracy: The God That Failed
“No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth.”
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“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.”
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