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These international borders have become “no rights zones”
October 17, 2018
October 17, 2018. They can arrest you without a court order, and hold you for as long as they like. ...
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Why An Ideal Society Would be Based on Consent
September 14, 2018
September 14, 2018. All societies and all groups should be made up exclusively of consenting members. ...
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Kidnappers: The Tyranny of Child Protective Services Across the Nation
July 04, 2018
July 4, 2018. They have the power to take your children, without due process, without a warrant, without charging you with a crime. ...
If You Think “Rights Don’t Exist,” You are Contributing to the Collapse of Civilization
June 17, 2018
June 17, 2018. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and property are all the exact same thing. And as we'll see, these concepts have other synonyms as well. ...
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Why a Bar Can Boot Trump Supporters, But a Bakery Cannot Deny Gay Customers
April 26, 2018
At one point or another, we will all want the right to say, "No thanks, I don't want to serve you, I don't want to patronize you, I don't want to talk to you, have sex with you, or pay for your housing." ...
Crimes of a Monster: Your Tax Dollars at Work
April 18, 2018
If the government can just take from you what they want, when they want, and then use it however they want, you can’t claim to be anything more than a serf in a land they think of as theirs. This was the case in the colonial era, and it’s the case once agai ...
WATCH: COPS SEXUALLY ASSAULT INNOCENT MAN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT BECAUSE THEY “SMELL WEED”
April 05, 2018
One of the most disturbing videos illustrating the horrors of marijuana prohibition was released this week showing police officers handcuff an innocent man and publicly grope his genitals and probe his anus.  ...
Not All Teens are Begging for their Rights to be Taken
April 04, 2018
Why do civil rights suddenly disappear when students enter a school they are forced to attend? ...
You Can Now Be Arrested for Sexism in Belgium
March 07, 2018
A Belgian court fined a man €3,000 ($3,700) for telling a female police officer that she should do a job more "adapted to women." ...
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3 Great Reasons to Have Children… and 4 Bad Reasons
February 14, 2018
But when it comes to why you want kids, some reasons are better than others. If you embrace the best reasons to have children, you’ll have better parenting as a result. ...
Is Going Shirtless a Necessary Freedom?
January 14, 2018
It would be better to fix the few actual inequalities that still exist. ...
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How the Lack of Consent has Made Us All Victims
January 02, 2018
What do you think, could 2018 be the year that consent is required for all human interaction? Or will we keep addressing symptoms--like sexual assault--while ignoring the underlying problem? ...
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Six Best Ways to Raise Freedom-Loving Kids
December 29, 2017
As freedom-loving parents, we’re going to have to do some things differently than most of society. ...
The Long and the Short of Parenting
December 22, 2017
It is impossible for every single interaction with a child to be replete with purpose. But keeping the long-term goals for their child in mind can help parents do better in the short term. ...
What are Rights? Do Rights Even Exist?
December 14, 2017
Self-ownership is a concept required in order to avoid the most atrocious human rights abuses, like slavery, murder, and rape. Without this view of rights, all manner of evil can be justified in the name of providing for others. ...
Slavery is Freedom: Submit to the State and be Free from Terrorism
June 05, 2017
Theresa May is now calling for stricter regulations regarding the internet, in the wake of the most recent terrorist attack. She wants to force internet providers and websites to remove any loosely defined "extremist" or "radicalizing" content, and she wants to ...
Of Course Businesses Should Be Able To Discriminate
May 16, 2017
Just reverse the situation and anyone can see that the right to discriminate is necessary. What if the Westboro Baptist Church went into a gay t-shirt maker's business and demanded 100 shirts that say "God hates fags." Should they be forced to comply, or are th ...
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Everyone Alive Believes in Private Property
April 06, 2017
Everyone alive on earth has drunk water within the last 72 hours (or at least within the last week if they are a special case of survival). That means at the time of consumption, every person on earth considered that water their property, otherwise they woul ...
Man Uses Gun to Save Fiance From Abduction; Police Arrest Him
April 03, 2017
Imagine you just had to defend your fiance from two masked men attempting to kidnap your her. That experience would be harrowing alone, but imagine if you were then immediately kidnapped by the people who are sworn to protect you. Police arrested Jeremiah Mo ...
Are We Still in a Feudal System of Property?
March 04, 2017
Do you own property? How does it feel to have a piece of land that is yours, that no one can take from you? Unless of course, you don’t pay your yearly rent, or rather property tax, to the town. And then of course the government could always just take y ...
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