THE NONAGGRESSION AXIOM
Libertarian creed: No man or group of men may aggress against the person or property of anyone else.
This is the non aggression axiom
Aggression means: initiation of use of the use or threat of physical violence against the person or property of anyone else. Is synonymous with invasion.
The libertarian insists in applying he general moral law to everyone, and makes no special exemptions for any person or group.
The State habitually commits mass murder, when it engages in enslavement into its military forces, called conscription, and it lives and has its being in the practice of forcible theft, which it calls "taxation". War is mass murder. Conscription is Slavery and Taxation is Robbery
Libertarians can supply far more efficiently and far more morally by private and cooperative enterprise.
The libertarian therefore considers on of his prime educational tasks is to spread the demystification and desantification of the State among its hapless subjects.
There are three broad types of foundation:
Instincts, the nature of man, is such that each individual person must, in order to act, choose his own ends and employ his own means in order to attain them. Possessing no automatic instincts, each man must learn about himself and the world, use his mind to select values, learn about cause and effect, and act purposively to maintain himself advance his life. Since men can think, feel, evaluate, and act only as individuals, it becomes vitally necessary for each man's survival and prosperity that he be free to learn, choose, develop his faculties, and act upon his knowledge and values.
Each individual makes the final choice of which influences to adopt and which to reject, or of which to adopt first and which afterwards. The libertarian welcomes the process of voluntary exchange and cooperation between freely acting individuals.
Right to self-ownership- asserts the absolute right of each man, by virtue of his being a human being, to own his or her own body, to control that body free of coercive interference. Without being hampered and restricted by coercive molestation.
Man must own not only his own person, but also material objects for his control and use.
No producer really "Creates" matter; he takes nature-given matter and transforms it by his labor energy in accordance with his ideas and vision.
There is no existing entity called "society" there are only interacting individuals.
No man can produce or create anything by his labor alone, he must have the cooperation of land and other natural raw materials.
If man acquires rights over things, it is because he is at once active, intelligent and free; by his activity he spreads over external nature; by his intelligence he governs it, and bends it to his use, by his liberty, he establishes between himself and it the relation of cause and effect and makes it his own.
Nature has recognized her master, and man feels that he is at home in nature. Nature has been appropriated by him for his use, she has become his own, she is his property. This property is legitimate; it constitutes a right as sacred for man as is the free exercise of his faculties.
When property has passed, by sale or by inheritance, from one hand to another, its conditions have not changed, it is still the fruit of human liberty manifested by labor and the holder has the rights as the producer who took possession of it by right.
This is the non aggression axiom
Aggression means: initiation of use of the use or threat of physical violence against the person or property of anyone else. Is synonymous with invasion.
The libertarian insists in applying he general moral law to everyone, and makes no special exemptions for any person or group.
The State habitually commits mass murder, when it engages in enslavement into its military forces, called conscription, and it lives and has its being in the practice of forcible theft, which it calls "taxation". War is mass murder. Conscription is Slavery and Taxation is Robbery
Libertarians can supply far more efficiently and far more morally by private and cooperative enterprise.
The libertarian therefore considers on of his prime educational tasks is to spread the demystification and desantification of the State among its hapless subjects.
There are three broad types of foundation:
- the emotivist: liberty taken as subjective, emotional grounds, by taking themselves outside the realm of rational discourse.
- the utilitarian: declare that liberty will lead more surely to widely approved goals: harmony, peace, prosperity. They fail to come up with a consistent system of measurement to apply to concrete situations of the real world.
- natural rights; we live in a world of more than one entities, and that each entity has distinct and specific properties a distinct nature which can be investigated by man's reason, by his sense perception and mental faculties.
Instincts, the nature of man, is such that each individual person must, in order to act, choose his own ends and employ his own means in order to attain them. Possessing no automatic instincts, each man must learn about himself and the world, use his mind to select values, learn about cause and effect, and act purposively to maintain himself advance his life. Since men can think, feel, evaluate, and act only as individuals, it becomes vitally necessary for each man's survival and prosperity that he be free to learn, choose, develop his faculties, and act upon his knowledge and values.
Each individual makes the final choice of which influences to adopt and which to reject, or of which to adopt first and which afterwards. The libertarian welcomes the process of voluntary exchange and cooperation between freely acting individuals.
Right to self-ownership- asserts the absolute right of each man, by virtue of his being a human being, to own his or her own body, to control that body free of coercive interference. Without being hampered and restricted by coercive molestation.
Man must own not only his own person, but also material objects for his control and use.
No producer really "Creates" matter; he takes nature-given matter and transforms it by his labor energy in accordance with his ideas and vision.
There is no existing entity called "society" there are only interacting individuals.
No man can produce or create anything by his labor alone, he must have the cooperation of land and other natural raw materials.
If man acquires rights over things, it is because he is at once active, intelligent and free; by his activity he spreads over external nature; by his intelligence he governs it, and bends it to his use, by his liberty, he establishes between himself and it the relation of cause and effect and makes it his own.
Nature has recognized her master, and man feels that he is at home in nature. Nature has been appropriated by him for his use, she has become his own, she is his property. This property is legitimate; it constitutes a right as sacred for man as is the free exercise of his faculties.
When property has passed, by sale or by inheritance, from one hand to another, its conditions have not changed, it is still the fruit of human liberty manifested by labor and the holder has the rights as the producer who took possession of it by right.