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To the contrary. If you consider all government violence, then good governance - violence used for a good end - creates the conditions necessary for safety, freedom, and prosperity. I actually do agree with Scottty here. Might enforces right. That's why we need the state or some other form of...

In what way is it consistent? And isn't it just as consistent to go "I will do X to others, but I won't let others do X to me"? Do you not understand what I'm trying to do here? But if that's the case, don't you see how it's pointless for right-wing people to be anti-censorship if it makes...

How does "not being a hypocrite" actually prevent it from being done to you? What about in the case of the powerful hypocrite, where the hypocrite prevents bad things from being done to him by force and does them to others anyways? Maybe indoctrinated is too strong a word, but we all live in a...

This isn't intuitive. Why is it wrong to be a hypocrite? Because it makes you feel bad? Why does it make you feel bad? Is that a rational feeling, or is it because you were indoctrinated into believing so? Notice how the censorship goes all of one way. The Left is able to censor people and shut...

I don't really think those are good ideas. I mean, we live in a society that emphasizes individualism and "free thinking," and it seems like you've swallowed it wholesale. I would start by looking at the very basics of what you believe and why you believe it. What are your first principles?

@CarlManvers2019 How do you not know you haven't been indoctrinated or partially indoctrinated into any ideology?