All religion is absurd and much of it is dangerous. An honest and clear-headed examination of any religion demonstrates that whatever aspects of it depend exclusively on its teachings have no rational basis and fly in the face of all reason and evidence.
I seldom read book reviews, and would not have read the one entitled, "Suicide of the West," if it had been written by anyone other than Theodore Dalrymple. The opening paragraph explains exactly what the three books reviewed are about: "That Western Europe suffers from a state of general paralysis is a truth too universally acknowledged to require much reiteration. Slow growth and high unemployment; an aging and shrinking population; scientific and cultural irrelevance to the rest of the world; a large, unassimilated alien population much of which is hostile to the very countries into which it has immigrated—these are...
To any moral adult, NAP is an insult. Moral grown-ups do not need anyone to tell them, "look both ways before crossing the street," or, "never initiate the use of force against anyone."
I do not like to coin new words, but the temptation is very great when the words available for identifying the concept one wishes to address are so corrupt.
I have no desire to coin a new term, as so many political theorists and activists do. My use of the acronym, NIP, is only a rhetorical device to contrast the true moral relationship between individuals to the very narrow and morally baseless concept libertarians call NAP.
The, "ego-driven," have no interest in government. Their first purpose is the achievement of their own goals and ends and being the best human beings they can possibly be.
I recently discovered this quote: "Humans are social beings and discovered long ago that social cooperation is the greatest means for attaining human needs and aspirations."
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man.
Academia, politics, and the horde of pseudo-intellectuals that dominate the media, the arts, and religion are always at war with reason, the intellect, and truth.
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