Taylor the Teacher

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I hate the law.
I hate the law for the same reason I hate rubrics. Rubrics delineate the upper limits of academic work for the sake of those who want the lower limits clearly spelled out so they can slide […]

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The Radical Libertarian says statism is a religion. Defenders of the state will irrationally defend it without regard to logic. I see the reaction he’s talking about all the time.

When I mention that I’m a philosophical anarchist people look at me like I am insane. “Anarchy means chaos!” they say. Whatever. I’m tired […]

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Just checked “Most Popular List” on Technorati. Guess which 10 things are more important than cops tasering a citizen for saying the word “blow job“?
Sit down. You’re not going to believe this.
Okay, if you follow American culture at all, you will believe it. Go ahead and finish that fried chicken first.
1. YouTube
2. Ron Paul
3. Noelia […]

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Anarchy does not mean chaos. Anarchy is the absence of the state. Only those who want to control other people (largely because they can’t control themselves) want us to think that if there was no state, there would be chaos.

 
However, answering to any authority other than what my conscience tells me is right […]

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God gave me free will because getting to know him depended on it. An absolutely INSANE risk, I know. One that I would never take. He wasn’t too dense to understand the risk involved in giving humans free will. But still, he decided to do it.
 

Plus, I’ve seen enough in my own life to […]

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Very often, I find myself in a situation where the thing that God wants to do in my life involves me making choices. I find myself in that situation on the day-to-day level and on the life-long level, on the moral level and intellectual level. Truth is less like light than it is like dye. […]

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It really burns me that Bruce Willis’ movie bastardized the coolest state motto.
I was really excited about the Free State Project, but there is no way in hell I’m moving to New Hampshire. There is nothing there. Bad move, FSP. I know we voted…. but oh, well.
There are tons of good reasons to live […]

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In my limited understanding of my life and what God wants from me, the one thing I’m sure of is that my choices are deeply involved. Therefore, any person who steps into the realm of influencing my choices should do so with circumspection. This goes double for governments and advertisers. This goes triple for the […]

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