Over a dozen beers last Friday, sitting in the pool and debating the finer things in life, I had a great discussion with my friend, the Devil’s Advocate. He is an aspiring law student, and we went back and forth on a number of issues. We agreed that there will always be people willing to take someone’s rights in favor of their own, there will always be people willing to use force to violate...
In the absence of smoking bans, restaurateurs are allowed to ban smoking in their establishments if they see fit. We don’t clamor for a law that requires restaurants to allow smoking (in the name of equality everywhere) because restaurateurs can ban smoking if they want; you don’t have a right to smoke unless they decide to grant it to you. As a customer you are there on a purely voluntary, cooperative basis, and as...
Had a good time at John’s 4th of July party last weekend. I got some new books, namely John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty and Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. I have started reading Mill right now, and it’s fucking amazing. I suppose like any other serious work, it rings very true and relevant to things at present. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind...
