I’ve noticed some people seem to be laboring under the delusion that if one of the schoolyard culture war “teams” temporarily espouses some position which happens to look something like one of mine, that means I “belong” to that schoolyard team.
No.
I am an individual, and my positions are derived from decades of ethical consideration based in one simple a priori principle: Every individual owns themselves and the fruits of their own effort, and nobody else (individually or collectively) has the right to control either, regardless of excuse. So if your preferred law, policy, regulation, politician, gang, or whatever claims the right to control any individual without their consent in any way, even if you claim it’s for “the greater good” or “their own good”, I am against it. That’s it. It’s really quite simple. And yes, harming others is a form of controlling them, so please let’s have no whataboutery involving violent crime, or sophistry attempting to equate some consensual, nonviolent behavior to actual violence in order to excuse the State violating an individual’s rights.
Well said.
Dear Maggie: do you believe everyone has an Absolute right to self defense, as long as they do not violate their duty to leave everyone else alone???
Yep. Unprovoked attack is not self-defense.