December 2009
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In Defense of the Leech: A Rant
By Ben Aubin
Every popular system of government throughout history has convinced you that working is an essential part of survival. Is it any wonder that so much cultural and social value is placed on a Work Ethic? Can a person have a strong Work Ethic, who isn’t working at a traditional job? Some readers would answer that question, yes, then begin to reconsider. If a person needs a job,...
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“If one assigns any value to individual autonomy,...
… logically there are only two possibilities for it to even exist, much less flourish, in society. … The first is a compromise: liberalism. The individual exchanges part of his precarious natural liberty for society’s protection of the rest of it, and also for the practical opportunities for advancing his interests only opened up in a social state. This was the position of Thomas Hobbes, John...
