By Foster Gamble
http://www.thrivemovement.com/blog
Strange as it may seem, more challenging for me even than talking with people about Free Energy, conspiracies, banking schemes and ETs, has been exploring in-depth the one thing everyone we have spoken with agrees upon!
What’s that?
The Non-Aggression Principle — which says that no one has the right to initiate force against another except in true self-defense. It sounds obvious, right? Kind of like the Golden Rule…but it is actually beyond that. Maybe someone doesn’t want to be treated the way you want to be. The special power of the N.A.P. is that it is a rule, not just an aphorism. I believe it is enlightenment boiled down to the primary guideline for human relating. It doesn’t make anyone do anything, but it claims the right for everyone to protect themselves and others from rape, assault, murder, theft, fraud and counterfeit — even if the violation is by a so-called “government” or its tax collecting “authority.”
No one wants to be violated against their will, and my research has shown me more and more that this is the compass by which humanity could build a truly sustainable and thriving condition for all beings on Earth.
http://www.thrivemovement.com/blog
Strange as it may seem, more challenging for me even than talking with people about Free Energy, conspiracies, banking schemes and ETs, has been exploring in-depth the one thing everyone we have spoken with agrees upon!
What’s that?
The Non-Aggression Principle — which says that no one has the right to initiate force against another except in true self-defense. It sounds obvious, right? Kind of like the Golden Rule…but it is actually beyond that. Maybe someone doesn’t want to be treated the way you want to be. The special power of the N.A.P. is that it is a rule, not just an aphorism. I believe it is enlightenment boiled down to the primary guideline for human relating. It doesn’t make anyone do anything, but it claims the right for everyone to protect themselves and others from rape, assault, murder, theft, fraud and counterfeit — even if the violation is by a so-called “government” or its tax collecting “authority.”
No one wants to be violated against their will, and my research has shown me more and more that this is the compass by which humanity could build a truly sustainable and thriving condition for all beings on Earth.
HISTORY of the NON-AGGRESSION PRINCIPLE
300s BC Epicurus“Natural Justice is a symbol or expression of usefulness, to prevent one person from harming or being harmed by another."
”900s Islamic Theologians“Man can rationally know that man has a right to life and property.”
1689 John Locke“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
1682 Samuel von Pufendorf“Among the absolute duties of anybody to anybody, the first place belongs to this one: let no one injure another. For this is the broadest of all duties, embracing all men as such.”
1722 William Wollaston“No man can have the right to begin to interrupt the happiness of another…yet every man has a right to defend himself and his against violence"
1790 Mary Wollstonecraft“The birthright of man…is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual…
1816 Thomas Jefferson “Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”
“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”
1851 Herbert Spencer“Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
”1859 John Stuart Mill“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over a member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”
1961 Ayn Rand “The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships…
”1963 Murray Rothbard “No one may threaten or commit violence (‘aggress’) against another man’s person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.”
L. Neil Smith “No one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, nor to delegate its initiation.”
Walter Block “It shall be legal for anyone to do anything he wants, provided only that he not initiate (or threaten) violence against the person or legitimately owned property of another.”