[MD] NAP

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Andre:
And 'What the Metaphysics of Quality indicates is that the
twentieth-century intellectual faith in man's basic goodness as spontaneous
and natural is disastrously naive.

Nick:
This is why natural law that minimizes conflict is better than law that increases 
conflict.  Criminals are to be brought to justice for their physical coercion.  You 
have no faith in human goodness yet give humans such vast governmental powers.  
By your own assertions that is called vile.

Voting is believing in what is right, but it is NOT doing what is right.  You don't do 
anything when you vote.  It is not direct action.  Henry David Thoreau called voting 
"gambling with morality".  In "Civil Disobedience" he writes:

"All voting is a sort of gaming, like chequers or backgammon, with a slight moral 
tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting 
naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, 
perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should 
prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never 
exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is 
only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will 
not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the 
power of the majority."

I don't listen to the "Montana Governor" as Pirsig didn't.  I am in the Church of Reason.  
Pull up a bar stool and hear some truth!

Here's an excellent journal entry by Philosophy Professor Rasmussen:

http://mises.org/journals/jls/4_1/4_1_4.pdf

Liberty!

Nick  

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