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Quote by: leviathon435  I am not saying this as a neccasarily negative thing but ultimately you are an anarchist Keith, you want to live under no state. This poses many problems none of which are really on-topic so I won't go into them. However your attempt at making a definite meta-physical truth is comendable. However if everyone has a right to life even if someone tries to take yours away they still have that right. If you try to argue that they give up their right then you are again at the problem that there is no meta-physical truth. Your truth would be "Everyone has the right to life except in some cases where they give it away." This seems no more true than "all animals are equal but some are more equal than others" is communist. |
See my previous post about axioms for part of the answer to this question. However, the intial point you make I'll be happy to address here.
I have often said that "politically I'm a minarchist, philosophically I'm an anarchist". This, to me, is completely consistent position. I belive that we should work to have the least amount of government possible. Philosophically, I believe the least amount possible is no government at all. However, in today's political world, we are far, far away from that philosophical possibility. As we get closer and closer to that, I may be proven wrong, however, there has been minimal effort since the founding of this country to reduce government. The last great effort for reduction of government was our own revolution and, after that, for quite a while things went quite well. But, government has continually and consistently grown since then as well.
Politically, let's start cutting back. When we get rid of 75% of the government we have today, we can discuss further the remainder.
Keith