The Libertists

Recently a very high profile news story has appeared about a woman who, from the story, has terminal cancer.  With this knowledge, she has decided that she wants to end her life (possibly by the time I finish this she might have already taken the final moment). Of course, this brought up all the usual questions about morality and what we're teaching the children about the nature of the universe and thus life.  But not one person, through the clatter has asked the most basic question there is: Who owns that body? There are three possible solutions: 1. God owns it 2. The State owns it 3. The Individual Owns it. Only one of them makes any real sense. Let us look at the details of all three: Does God Own The Body? All the religions of the world that currently hold the major sway in philosophy would basically echo the Augustinian view.  Saint Augustine (I only use the word Saint here for clarity not as a consideration of truth.  He was actually Augustine o...

I sent in my absentee ballot last week and they included a nice little sticker to indicate that I voted. The comedy: I didn't vote for a single person on the ballot. Sure, I applied a no to any field where the state allowed me to vote for new laws and didn't simply write these new rules themselves.  But as for the so-called leaders, I disagree with all of them.  I disagree at the core level of their beliefs: their philosophies of nature, their views of intellect, their concepts of ethics.  California doesn't allow for write-in candidates, or at least, there was no field for me to write anything in, so I was stuck in a quandary.  Do I even send in the ballot?  After all, my choice was to say all the current political views being forced on me are absent decency and logic.  They suffer from such things as other world super naturalism, egalitarianism, socialism, nominalistic views, and a host of other outright insane concepts based ...