This is the script for a future video that I think will be one of my most important works. So I would very much appreciate any feedback. Thanks.
The State Is Not Great: How Government Poisons Everything
By Jacob Spinney
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. The thing that differentiates the government from any other group of people is that it is a territorial monopoly with the commonly believed right to use coercion. It’s time we stop fooling ourselves into believing that the government is the entity which allows us to achieve collective goals and start recognizing it for what it really is, the entity that enables one group of people to violently aggress against another; that allows one individual to benefit at the expense of another. Taxation, that is to say coercively taking people’s property against their will, and regulation, that is… Read More
This is an excerpt from “Internal Inconsistencies in Arguments for Government: Nozick, Rand, and Hospers”
by David Osterfeld
“Another well-known argument for the minimal state is that of the objectiv-
ist philosopher, Ayn Rand. Not only does Rand advocate a minimal state
but, like many other contemporary minarchists, she opposes taxation as a
form of involuntary servitude.
The starting point for Rand is the cognition that life in society pre-
supposes the repudiation of the initiatory use of violence. But, says Rand,
“if physical force is to be barred from social relationships, men need an in-
stitution charged with the task of protecting their rights under an objective
code of rules.”ls And such a code, she believes, precludes the possibility of
competition in this area. It is this fundamental incompatibility of force and
production that is ignored by
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I would HIGHLY appreciate some feedback on this before I make this into a video. If there are things you think need to be reworded or if there are things you think I left out, please let me know.
The State Is Not Great: How Government Poisons Everything
By Jacob Spinney
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. The thing that differentiates the government from any other group of people is that the government is a territorial monopoly claiming the right to use coercion. It’s time we stop fooling ourselves into believing that the government is the entity which allows us to achieve collective goals and start recognizing it for what it really is, the entity that enables one group of people to violently aggress against another; that allows one individual to benefit at the expense of another.
… Read More
