Yellow Dog [Part 19]

Donn,

When someone uses a stereotypical picture to present their case, expect to be stereotyped. There IS evil, and there's NOT so evil, and there’s ok, and there’s pretty good and there’s better and there’s even great and fantastic. I won’t join you in your black and white interpretation of the world. You and GW and you’re "either with us or agin us" has to go because there ARE people with us, some sort of with us, some somewhere in the middle and some sort of against us and some totally against us. THAT’S what diplomacy is for: to move those countries polarized against us and bring them back, slowly to the fold. Consider the concept of the "lethal hug" ... THAT’S what Obama is espousing and it works far more often than invasion and occupation.

Marx


Marx,

Christ! I AM NOT A SUPPORTER OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION!! I’m not a Republican.

Terrific! You acknowledge that there is evil in this world. Let’s say you have acknowledged the existence of WHITE. I’m not sure, but I think when you say “fantastic” you mean “good.” You acknowledge that there is good in the world. You have acknowledged the existence of BLACK.

So, you live in a world where there is good and there is evil; there is truth and there is falsehood; there is black and there is white.

Now, I have never said that the various shades of gray do not exist. Of course they exist. My point is simply that if you know what the good is, any movement in the other direction is movement towards evil. For example: There is truth. Anything less than the truth is a lie. There are little lies, bigger lies, huge lies, dangerous lies, evil lies.

Consider the following: All men have inherent rights. Among them are life, liberty and property [property means: the wealth created by your productive work]. These rights are not granted to men by their government. These rights are inherent. All men have them because all men are rational, thinking beings, responsible for their own existence. The greatest violator of these rights through history has been governments usually married to some church. The common justification for their atrocities: the collectivist-altruist code.

If man does not have an absolute right to his life, than he can be sacrificed by the collective will of other men. Every genocide in history was carried out by some government, usually with the backing of some church. The collectivist-altruist code is the “justification” used in every instance. The rights of the individual are sacrificed for the good of the community. The unequivocal protection of this inherent, individual right is an absolute good. Any movement in the other direction is movement towards absolute evil. Everybody talks about 6 million dead Jews. Nobody recalls the name of the first to be killed. Evil need not be multiplied by 6 million in order for it to be evil. If only 3 million had been murdered, would it have been less evil? How about 600? How about just you or your daughter?

A bird is free to use its wings to fly away from danger to preserve its existence. A lion is free to use its fangs and claws to tear the flesh of its prey so that it can survive. Human beings do not have wings, fangs, or claws. The key to a human being’s survival is his brain. If man is responsible for his own existence, a man must be at liberty to use his brain to preserve his own existence. Any institution that restricts man from the rational use of his brain for his own preservation is anti-man and evil. [Harming others, stealing, etc. are irrational, that’s why we call these behaviors “crimes.” Nobody is free to harm others even if he is trying to preserve his own existence.] Nobody has the right to control the thinking of any other man. Men, of course, are free to try to persuade one another. Again, through history no institution has been a bigger violator of man’s liberty than government usually married to some church.

Because man is responsible for his own existence, man must be free to produce the necessities of life. He must either produce food or trade with somebody who has. If you plant the crops, care for them, and finally harvest them, you own whatever your labor yields. The product of your labor is your property. Nobody can rationally make any claim to that which was produced by you. When we pay tribute to our government, we are paying a fee for services rendered [police protection, for example.] The redistribution of wealth IS NOT a government service. It is extortion. It is government forcing individuals to hand over the fruits of their labor. Why? So that it can be given to other people who did not produce it. Slavery is an absolute evil. Enslaved humans were forced to hand over 100% of their property, the product of their labor. In communist China, the Chinese were forced to hand over 100% of the property. Communism is pure evil. I guess by your standard socialism is less evil because people in Europe the few producers left are only 50-75% slave. Here in the United States the productive 60% of the population [the people who actually pay taxes] are only 30% slave.

Movement in the direction you promote is movement in the direction of pure evil.

Movement toward the absolute and unequivocal liberty of rational individuals is THE ABSOLUTE GOOD you fail to realize. You think so little of mankind. You think mankind is evil. You think that this IDEAL is unreachable, that government can create all things for all men BY FORCE. You are the advocate of force even as you rail against war! You are the cynic who restricts man’s freedoms and then damns freedom when the statist economy you created fails.

Donn