Bretigne Shaffer
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Biography
Is granting a monopoly on the use of force to any one entity compatible with true civilization and a free society? Discuss.
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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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2020-03-27
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Censorship of Vitamin C for Covid-19 Info., As Hospitals in NY Begin to Use it. Why?
What Then Must We Do?: Podcast episode 2 with Bretigne Shaffer
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2020-03-19
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What Then Must We Do? - Episode 1: Jeff Tucker of AIER, Talking About Covid-19 and Liberty
New 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
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2019-03-26
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Libertarians for Forced Vaccination?
No, you don't have a "right" to demand that others are vaccinated.
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2017-01-20
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Speechless in 2017
It'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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2014-04-09
Magazine Article • Entrepreneurship
Dallas Buyers Club Nails the FDA
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Bretigne Shaffer
Libertarians 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
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2013-04-18
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Fear and Flying, Then and Now
For 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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2012-01-29
Magazine Article • WAR: About that War
Mere Anarchy Loosed Upon the World
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Bretigne Shaffer
To 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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2011-11-28
Magazine Article • r3VOLution Continues
Searching for Purpose in a Brutal World
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Bretigne Shaffer
Are 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 â€" of
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2011-08-29
Magazine Article • Family
How Spanking Serves the State
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Bretigne Shaffer
Our 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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