Self-Ownership, Do You Own Yourself? |Off Grid Agorist Livestream

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Any conversation you have with an agorist about anarchy will inevitably lead to topics like the non-aggression principle(N.A.P.), freedom of association, and voluntary interaction.

These are all great topics worth a deep dive, but there is one concept that is at the core of all of these topics.

Self-ownership

As with many other philosophies, agorism holds the idea of self-ownership as absolutely fundamental. It's an either/or state of existence.

Either you do own yourself or you don't. And, if you do, then it guides all the above topic discussions.

It goes like this. If I own myself then;

- You must own yourself too and I don't have any right to initiate violence against you and you don't have any right to initiate violence against me.

- I have every right to use any force necessary to repel violence against me.

- I am free to associate myself with whomever I choose and for whatever reasons I choose without permission from others.

- All interactions with me require my consent for them to be legitimate. and any interactions I have with you require your consent.

These are really simple ideas and most people agree with them except when it comes to the government. People excuse the government from these very simple yet obviously moral principles. Why is that?

People must excuse the government from these sets of moral codes because they believe we must have government and government can not exist under such restraint of behavior.

If this short article resonates at all with how you view liberty then I highly recommend the book "The World's Most Dangerous Superstition" by Larken Rose.

Larken has an incredible way of distilling some really complex thinking down to easily digestible bits. If you are seriously searching for a moral perspective of liberty then this is a must read.

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