Pg 338 – They Thought They Were Free Take the pressure off them, and they might become insufferable. But they became insufferable with the pressure on them. Take the pressure off them, and they might claim that they won the last war. But that would be better than their claiming that they will win the next…
Pg 181 – They Thought They Were Free Shame is a state of being, guilt a juridical fact. A passer-by cannot be guilty of failure to try to prevent a lynching. He can only be ashamed of not having done so. I thought this quote nicely illustrated the differences between moral/immoral actions and legal/illegal actions.…
I received the following questions via email: Does one nation ever have any obligation to come to the defense of another? If so, how do we determine who the true aggressor is? How do we limit our involvement so that we are not totally stretched beyond our limits to help? What criteria do we use to determine…
Their is a fear among unfettered capitalists – or at least this one – that despite all the seemingly correct science, thought, history and evidence showing that freedom is the best system for human prosperity and increasing human development; the question remains: if freedom is the best system, why doesn’t it commonly exist? If “Liberty is…
Fear and Pressure It seems to be that our human nature fears that which we do not know. This fear is not without reason. For much of human history, most families have lived in a fragile, or semi-fragile state of existence where sometimes the slightest bit of change can wreak havoc. Whether it’s famine, flood, or invasion. When…
The Economical Engineer 