Fred Reed, Apr 26 ’05: Growing up in the 60’s: How We Were

“The freedom we enjoyed would horrify today’s worried delicates.”

Ryan McMaken, The Church, the State, and the Degradation of the Human Person

“Without life, there can be no property, no pursuit of happiness, and certainly no liberty, for if one has been robbed of his one means of exercising his will in the world, how can he have liberty? This was not lost on the Christian theologians who understood that if one is to pursue virtue, he must be free to do so.”

The Corporation US Canada

Comment as of Dec. 2014: I’m not so sure I agree with the following point of view entirely, but I think this is a valuable point to make. On the other hand, I think it will turn out that corporations and governments are the same type of entity–usually, in real life, and they work hand in hand together. Governments are just a special type of corporation. Two sides of the same coin. There is no need to fall for dialectics. Collectivism makes human beings subservient to corporations one way or the other. Fabian socialists like H. G. Wells loved big corporations and hated individual consciousness.

Anti-State.com, Bill Orton, May 2 ’05: Comments About The Corporation

“The popular documentary film The Corporation is a critique of modern multinational corporations from the progressive authoritarian viewpoint….”

“The Nigerian government sells out its resources to Shell, plunders its people to pay off debt, outlaws demonstrations, brutally suppresses its people, hangs four guys, and the film blames it not on the Nigerian State who perpetrates all this, nor even the World Bank loan sharks, but Shell? Do they really expect watchers to fall for this?…”

“Commons lets everyone shove the costs onto everyone else – the well-known tragedy of the commons. When something is privatized, then the costs tend to be internalized. An owner has an interest in maintaining his property’s value, so he has an incentive to prevent dumping, and to seek compensation if someone does dump.”

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