Posts in "Personal Responsibility"

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By Devon Minnema at 12:58PM
Jan 16, 2011

It's All About Personal Responsibility

The Vacaville Reporter just ran this great letter to the editor by a California Bay Area resident named Tom Leary. His argument is that preventative laws and weapon control laws are "nonsensical" because individuals determined to do harm will not be stopped by a ban on weapons or anything for that matter. Here it is:

Tuscon Cacti

Unbelievable. In the wake of the contemptible murders in Tucson, Ariz., there are those who would place the blame on anyone or anything but the killer himself. It takes me back to my college days and the sociology classes that purported to explain deviant human behavior by citing environmental reasons that contributed to such behavior. The professors cited family issues, work environments and disrupted relationships. Today, political discourse is cited as a contributing factor to the killer's deviant behavior.


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By Matt Cockerill at 7:38AM
May 3, 2010

Cockerill Interviews David Henderson

David Henderson, economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey California, research scholar the Hoover Institute, and columnist for antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com, was kind enough to do an interview with me recently.

David discussed the liberty-movement leaders young people ought to emulate, the problems he sees with the Austrian Theory of the business cycle, and the personal responsibility of the peacenik and soldier in fighting against, and not fighting in, an unjust war. I believe this is a very important interview for young people, in terms of broadening their mind and seriously challenging the status quo. As such, I didn't cut much of the interview and I ask you, the reader, to find a time to listen to it in full.

If you absolutely can't listen to the whole interview, then fast-forward to about 2:21 minutes into Part 4. Here, I ask David about the issues of peace and personal responsibility, and he gives what I consider to be a very thorough and important response.

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

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