We're Already There
Bretigne ShafferWhat if I told you that we're already living in Galt's Gulch?
Bretigne Shaffer
Biography Is granting a monopoly on the use of force to any one entity compatible with true civilization and a free society? Discuss. Interests This is also the personal blog of bretigne shaffer, and i will include announcements about projects i am working on or have completed, interesting things i see or do, and/or "stuff i've made" to read about my films and books, and occasional musings on nothing in particular. if you're not interested in the personal stuff - and why should you be? - just click on the category
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Censorship of Vitamin C for Covid-19 Info., As Hospitals in NY Begin to Use it. Why?
Bretigne ShafferWhat Then Must We Do?: Podcast episode 2 with Bretigne Shaffer
What Then Must We Do? - Episode 1: Jeff Tucker of AIER, Talking About Covid-19 and Liberty
Bretigne ShafferNew Podcast Channel for Bretigne Shaffer - What Then Must we Do? My first podcast episode, in which I talk with Jeff Tucker about how governments around the world have responded to the threat of the Covid-19 virus, whether the response of the US gove
Libertarians for Forced Vaccination?
Bretigne ShafferNo, you don't have a "right" to demand that others are vaccinated.
Speechless in 2017
Bretigne ShafferIt's been a weird couple of months. I've seen more people unfriend each other on FaceBook than in the past few years combined; There have been several reports of both Trump supporters and minorities being physically attacked; I've been asked to
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Dallas Buyers Club Nails the FDA
• Magazine Article Bretigne ShafferLibertarians are raving about Dallas Buyers Club, and with good reason. One of our biggest frustrations is the near-universal tendency of human beings to form political opinions not through a rational examination of the facts and theories, but throug
Fear and Flying, Then and Now
Bretigne ShafferFor the past few years, I’ve just avoided flying entirely, but I recently took to the skies again, and can attest to the complete lack of fun and excitement there is to be found in being herded about like cattle and being barked at by TSA agents
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Mere Anarchy Loosed Upon the World
• Magazine Article Bretigne ShafferTo believe that war can ever be "good" is to believe not only that the academic hypotheticals are accurate representations of the real-world conflict and that violence is always the only solution, we must also believe in lies that are deeply ingraine
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Searching for Purpose in a Brutal World
• Magazine Article Bretigne ShafferAre violence and the pursuit of power perhaps just the easiest ways of finding meaning and intensity in life; the paths requiring the least effort and imagination? Is it possible that evil is just the end result of moral and imaginative laziness – of
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How Spanking Serves the State
• Magazine Article Bretigne ShafferOur society has a pathological love for authority and a pathological tendency towards mindless obedience. Is this all the result of parents spanking their children?
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