One suggestion though. You can be even more solid in your ‘argument from principle’. Here’s the tip; we all use principles all the time. Think about that for a second. For example, I can’t correct you to an opinion, such as saying ‘change your mind… because I want you to’. *We have to use some universal standard for truth if we correct anybody.* So, an argument against principle is, in fact, going by some kind of principle. Thus it is self-contradictory! Always always always look out for these core contradictions when engaging in debate with others (especially statists!). It saves a lot of time and effort. Look at the *form* not the *content* of the propositon. Hope that helps!

Perhaps ask them next time, “So… do you mean that there is a valid universal principle [applies to you, me, everyone equally] that claims we ought not use principles? Are you taking pragmatism *on principle*?!”

Then sit back and watch ‘em wriggle! Again, great article Dale. Bravo.

Sincerely,
John and Dagny Galt
Atlas Shrugged, Owner’s Manual For The Universe!(tm)

http://www.starvingthemonkeys.com/

http://voluntaryist.com/fundamentals/introduction.php

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There are only two types of human beings.

One type just wants everyone to leave everyone else alone and these humans are students and advocates of the Philosophically Mature Non-Aggression Principle.

The other type refuses to leave others alone and these humans are the Mobocracy Looter Minions with their hords of bureaucrats, jackboots, and mercenaries that perpetuate the perpetration of the loot and booty gravy-train. Rob-peter-to-buy-paul’s-vote bread and circuses of the doomed Amerikan Empire.

You are either the one…or the other.

The John Galt Solution of Starving The Monkeys is the only solution. Stop funding and forging your own chains and shackles. What are you leaving for your children and grandchildren and prodigy!?!

The Mobocracy Looter Minions must be allowed to consume everything around them, then each other, and finally themselves. There is no other way. Ayn Rand wrote about it over fifty years ago and it rings as soundly today as it did then.

Get your copy of Starving The Monkeys by Tom Baugh today, before the book is banned and the author is hunted down and Vince Fostered!

Sincerely,
John and Dagny Galt
Atlas Shrugged, Owner’s Manual For The Universe!(tm)

http://www.starvingthemonkeys.com/

http://voluntaryist.com/fundamentals/introduction.php

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