Freedom means making mistakes and learning to deal with the consequences

Tags: Crux Files ? freedom ? mistake ? consequences ? government ? force ? prove himself ? choice & consequence ? excuse

I despise guns. I really do.

Tags: Crux Files ? gun control ? Taylor Woolrich ? Students for Concealed Carry

Funny thing about the honor culture, it takes generations to "die."

Tags: Crux Files ? honor ? reputation ? Michelle Malkin ? Louisiana ? Arizona ? sex offenders ? libertarian ? pagan ? reluctant advocate

Climate change" is losing it's credibility with the public, and it's dragging the environmental movement down with it.

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All I am saying is that you should check your experience with others who have a different perspective, people you can talk with face to face.

Tags: Crux Files ? counselor ? mental health professional ? truth ? priest ? minister ? calling ? good reputation ? writing a book ? shadows ? benefit of a doubt ? check your experience ? different perspective ? attitude ? chronicling your experience ? balance ? absolute ? transcendent morality ? Christians ? Mark Twain

In the name of the greater good, the US supported tyranny and dictators all over the globe.

Tags: Crux Files ? United States ? tyranny ? dictators ? meddle ? bully ? Russian revolution ? trade-immigration-tolerance ? Mighty Mouse ? Golden Rule ? Cold War ? moral superiority

I think the age of consent is the best rule anyone has come up with so far.

Tags: age of consent ? extended childhood ? marriage ? sex ? Crux Files

No law required people to march in protest.

Tags: civil rights ? Woolworth's ? march in protest ? sit-in ? Civil Rights Act ? Crux Files

This brand of revisionism uses hard confrontation with constantly escalating stakes. You can't win against it by being loud, that just makes you the closest and biggest target.

Tags: Crux Files ? revisionism ? hard confrontation ? constantly escalating ? rights ? Christians ? labels ? RadFem ? privilege ? human rights

Competition drives the free market…

Tags: competition ? make things better ? rivals ? yesterday ? incentives ? government ? economics ? smaller government ? individual rights ? religion ? personal morality ? sexuality ? honor ? honest ? conservatives ? monolithic block ? Christians ? pagans ? blacks ? Hispanics ? Republicans ? Democrats ? women ? men ? moral code ? enlightenment ? sacrifice ? Crux Files

Our problem is that we excuse people from the consequences.

Tags: choice & consequence ? freedom ? responsibility ? third wave feminism ? RSM ? conservative ? israel ? culture ? moral code ? Golden Rule ? Silver Rule ? Iron Rule ? Crux Files

““It constantly amazes me that the defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions.””
     — Lawrence W. Reed

Tags: Crux Files ? Robert A. Heinlein ? Lawrence W. Reed ? certainty ? perfection ? government ? promises ? good intentions ? price distortions ? prudent person ? Congress ? new regulations ? second order consequences ? third order consequences ? feedback loop ? politicos ? loan game ? free money ? something for nothing ? Second Amendment ? neither help nor hinder ? Christians ? outsourced wages ? industrial nations ? free to choose ? Judeo-Christian ? Christianity ? Constitution ? E pluribus unum ? one from many ? united we stand ? codified law ? public morality ? religious system ? The Moral Authority ? personal morality, ? multiple faiths

??I've seen the arguments in enough other contexts to distrust anyone who claims rationality prevents any opposing view. Even more so when they dismiss any other possibility unheard because they have the Ultimate Truth That Must Not Be Questioned.??
     — NeoWayland

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I believe that people are perfectly capable of making their own choices and that society is the better if people do exactly that.

Tags: Crux Files ? government ? smaller than absolutely necessary ? choice & consequence ? faith ? religion ? Divine ? fate ? offensive ? believe ? Golden Rule ? Silver Rule ? Iron Rule ? live & let live

Are they not freely consenting adults?

Tags: sex ? shame ? consenting adults ? cheating ? theft ? fraud ? prostitution ? single teachers ? dinner date ? couples ? SeekingArrangement.com ? "virtuous and moral" ? "public indoctrination system" ? freedom ? sin ? lesbian ? Crux Files

To me, it's immoral and perverse that you've taken it on yourself to pass judgement when there is nothing to show that these people did the things you say that you oppose.

Tags: Crux Files ? homosexuality ? pedophilia ? labels ? rule of law ? mass shootings

??We need our beliefs and convictions tested by people who don't agree with us.

It's how we learn if our ideas can stand on their own. It's how our ideas can be made better even if we didn't see all the angles.

And if someone can't stand that, then they shouldn't be talking. The reason why conservatism didn't die is because some conservatives and some libertarians got very very good at debate and defending their ideas.??
     — NeoWayland

Tags: Crux Files ? ideas ? maxims ? hate crime ? disagree ? tested ? conservative ? libertarian ? theft ? allies ? threaten ? murder ? assault ? rights ? truth

“I want a government that is smaller than absolutely necessary.

I believe that people are perfectly capable of making their own choices and that society is the better if people do exactly that.”

Tags: Crux Files ? currency collapse ? Constitutional convention ? politicos ? technocrats ? national public referendum ? election ? none of the above ? RICO Act ? libertarian ? religion ? faith ? public schools ? Christians ? morality

I've never agreed with the “hate crime" nonsense.

Tags: Crux Files ? hate crime ? assault ? murder ? theft ? punishment ? racist ? skin color ? sexual orientation ? red socks ? aren't good enough ? will never be good enough ? perpetual victim ? Christian Scientist ? conservative

We've been taught that government is supposed to govern and control the other guy.

That's the guy who is the problem.

Not us. Never us. It's not our fault.

Tags: Crux Files ? reform ? politicos ? government ? other guy ? collapse ? not our fault ? system ? Sara Palin ? John McCain ? Star Parker ? Christianity ? Christians ? for your own good ? vice law ? Tammy Bruce ? Chris Matthews ? government screw-up ? submit ? conservative ? virtues ? libertarianism ? Constitution ? rights ? taxes ? Daniel Webster ? Frederick Douglass ? rulers&masters

It’s not a right unless the other guy has it too.

Tags: Crux Files ? individual freedom ? Tenth Amendment ? informed choice ? human rights ? initiate force ? choice & consequence ? labels ? none of your business ? religion ? coercive power ? moral justification

And here is where I am about to offend many of you. Are you paying close attention?

Tags: Crux Files ? Christianity ? Founders ? religion ? First Amendment ? personal freedom ? coercive power ? moral justification ? personal responsiblity ? E pluribus unum

We say that the United States relies on the uniform rule of law. Then we look for loopholes.

Tags: Crux Files ? taxes ? fairness ? bad law ? loopholes ? deductions ? deductions ? abatements ? incentives ? special rights ? special recognition