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A state is a territorial monopolist of compulsion, an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the exploitation of private property owners through expropriation, taxation, and regulation.
“We are told that rising CO2 levels will cause a “sixth mass extinction”—a species extinction so devastating that we literally won’t be able to live. Given that previous mass extinctions involved phenomena that blocked out massive amounts of light and warmth, like the giant asteroid that left a ninety-three-mile wide, twelve-mile-deep crater 66 million years ago in what is now Mexico, there is an incredibly high bar to claim that an increase in a warming and fertilizing gas will cause mass extinction.”
― Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less
― Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less
“Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.”
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“Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.”
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“believe ideas can be dangerous, even popular ideas held by millions, and I furthermore believe we ought to be able to discuss such ideas freely. Unfortunately, there is a growing mob mentality even in the United States that allows unpopular ideas to be shouted down and the people voicing them to be accused of closed-mindedness and bigotry.”
― Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward
― Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward
“Who needs to chat up a $100/hour therapist when there are long, quiet, empty trails waiting to be walked?”
― The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
― The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
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