Followed. Liked. Upvoted. Resteemed. Read. Understood. I love peace through strength. Now, is the Non-Aggression Priniciple the same as pacifism? Should we become monks and live in towers up in the sky and only come down once a year? I choose to be aggressive sometimes. I believe in aggression. I understand people who DO NOT believe in starting the aggression. But can aggression be a form of discipline and correction towards your children or students as parents or teachers? I believe in smaller government. I may even consider becoming more like an anarchist. I believe in capitalism. I love money. I love freedoms. For the most part, I do not try to be aggressive towards people, but I make exceptions like you said above when you mentioned the state and also religion.

I try to be in the middle of the game board. When I was a kid, I was more on the top right corner as a contractual puritan. As I got older, I went down and left to be more liberal and universal. I believe in classical liberty or liberalism in letting people do what they want to do. I believe in objective universal morality and everything that can be applied to everybody everywhere. I kind of want to be in the middle of the board but I am becoming a bit more liberal and universal on the bottom left corner of the game board.

Hi! Glad I found your profile. After reading Atlas Shrugged some years ago I could never go back. The problem I have with anarchism is that in my opinion a lot of people who call themselves anarchists are actually communist. They want the state gone, but at the same time they want to force people to live in their communist society. That makes no sense to me. Anarchism is about freedom from force and violence. Sure, create your communist society, but leave me out of it. Love the post. Got a new follower. I usually dont ask people to follow me or check out my blog, unless I actually believr you will enjoy it :) cheers

Great article, @piedpiper! I too, have many issues with fellow libertarians, and believe that a political compass specifically made for libertarians is interesting. I'm not entirely sure whether I understand the terms you have used in your matrix: universalist, puritan, libertine, and contractualist. Maybe you could explain this compass in greater detail in one of your next posts. :)

What wild ride to go through the intellectual drama of personal development. We are programmed as children, i believe only a small number of us can break the "conditioning" and drop all of the pre-conceived notions, basically uploaded to us. A good question is if governments are intentionally "social engineering" us, is that a crime? To manipulate ones personal being through deception. Seems as if they are taking away our individuality for personal gain, stealing our livlihood for profit, it may be considered theft.

I think living in like-minded communities is what will be the next progression of things. Statism is a barrier to this but it would probably happen quickly in a voluntary world. 

It wouldn't be isolationist like you live in your community and those 150 are all that you know. Rather people probably want to constantly visit and explore and figure out what works best and what other people are doing.

But there are so many arbitrary things like even down to what level of nudity is acceptable. Is it ok to walk around puffing a cigarette near people, etc. And life just works a little easier when you surround yourself by people who are on the same page rather than try to live on top of each other with different attitudes about this stuff. 

And being surrounded "by like-minded people" can actually *mean* a community of completely different people, if they wanted to attempt that and see how it works. 

And it's my feeling that there will probably be "public" areas where people from different communities all hangout and stuff. And this is great for people who haven't settled somewhere. And there's some generic code of conduct in these places, and then in your home communities you have more niche differences.

I think there is also a big difference between "utilitarianism" and "natural rights" in the libertarian scene. I was going to leave a comment but instead ended up writing a full post: [Utilitarian voluntarism vs. natural rights libertarianism](https://steemit.com/utilitarian-voluntarism/@samupaha/utilitarian-voluntarism-vs-natural-rights-libertarianism)

But I guess it's still too short to explain everything so feel free to comment and ask questions.

Please guys follow me I'm new user

@piedpiper, DO NOT HIT / ASSAULT CHILDREN. I AGREE. PEOPLE ARE PAYING YOU MONEY TO LIE ABOUT ME. I agree with you. But you continue to comment and pretend that I disagree. I hate violence. I hate abuse. I hate assault. I do not like it when people assault / hit people. I said that I agree with you many times but you continue to pretend that I did not say that. You continue to insult me and you continue to lie about what I said. I talked about discipleship. I did not talk about bad things like killing people. I hate bad things. I hate abuse. I hate it. I hate it when we hurt people. I agree with you.

Do not hit except sometimes.

Pied Piper is downvoting my posts. He uses aggression against me. @piedpiper is attacking me. He said that discipline is bad. He said discipleship is bad. I agreed with him that abused is bad. I agree. Assault is bad. Murder is bad. We agree but he continues to attack me. I am not attacking him but he is abusing me. He is trying maybe rape me.

Great post. Maybe here:
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All depends on how exactly "puritan" is defined, really, in regard to different areas.

Hmm, there is a lot to think about in this thread. I may have to read up again on Larken Rose first to get in to the right mood and build up my vocabulary.

Focus and inner knowing...moving most aside in a physical sense to concentrate on uplifting the masses through my own positive works...by simply living...I create more magick...and harmony in my surroundings...

Upvoted and follow :) 
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“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.” 
― Thomas Sowell,

@piedpiper I see collaborative efforts, spontaneous self-organizing phenomena, peer-to-peer, sharing, and both open & free source technologies competing with institutional governance that seek to centralize control...

Market volatility and social upheaval may be coming.