Unownable Reputations

Reputations by their very nature are ideas in other people's heads about you, and cannot be legitimately owned or controlled via violence.

Does this imply there are no repercussions to someone that falsely hurts your reputation? No, it simply means that the battle should be waged with words, not bullets.

Tyranny by the Ignorant

The problem of tyranny does not stem directly from the minds of the power hungry, but the ignorance of those that allow it to exist and propagate. It is a mistake to believe that tyranny can be overthrown without reshaping the ideas of the populous that ferments the tyrants.

So the solution is not to fight the tyrant face on but use tactics that teach others about the inherent evil in the system.

Propagate peace, not anger.

Make Friends Not War

The idea of government and society being at war is simplistic and incorrect. Government is a pattern of society, not a separate entity from society. It should be viewed as a belief, not as a structure to be fought.

Government will disappear as the relationships that exist are replaced with voluntary alternatives, and the way to do this through direct one-on-one interaction in the name of liberty. Build relationships that foster civility and reasonableness.

Double Bladed Knowledge

After a certain point, most things simply can't be forgotten. This is the knife that cuts both ways. Ignorance can be bliss. With knowledge comes sadness, as well as power.

Would you want to know of all the suffering that goes on, even if you couldn't do anything about it? What would be the point?

Sometimes it's better to give up a little knowledge in order to gain more happiness.

Stupid Roads

Roads need only be a monopoly if you can't think outside the box. What is a road really? It can be thought of as property used for travel. There is nothing about it that says it has to be above ground, or even on the ground.

Roads run by a monopoly government are unsafe and inefficient. They are bumpy, feature no car-to-ground interface, and have thugs with lights on the tops of their cars that will run you off the road if you do not follow their diktats.

Think of all the time wasted sitting in front of a steering wheel. How difficult would the construction of smart roads be, ones that communicated with cars to tell them the position of the lanes and other cars, and then automate the driving?

Absence versus Failure

Is the absence of something the same as failing at it?

One really can't claim that government can be efficient at a task. There simply are not the incentives for productivity and resourcefulness like there are for individuals in the free market. The real question is whether not doing something is worse than restricting it for others and then failing to properly do it anyway.

For instance, government is a monopoly on force, supposedly necessary because without a centralized military people wouldn't self-organize to provide for the demands of security. Never-mind that freedom offers the best way to innovate ourselves out of a problem, it is too important to have a failing entity than one that might not appear.

Statism Virus

The mind of an individual can be harnessed by government through mandatory schooling to conform to the will of people in power and to reject out-of-hand the idea of a stateless society.

The task at hand is not removing power structures themselves, but illuminating the hazard caused by the power structures. Help people understand the slavery they live under and how more liberty is the solution, and the power structure dissolves.

A structure requires support from something. In this case, it is support from the vast masses. Overcoming this inertia is terribly difficult, but small steps get the ball rolling in the right direction.