 Reference > A Vindication of Moral LibertyDescription :: Lysander Spooner, 1875 (crimes and vices)
A treatise on the difference between crimes (hurt others) and vices (hurt self) and on what legislation makes sense under the circumstances. Continued at top
Owned by Unordained - Created on 11/06/2004 - Never edited 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Freedom & Responsibility11/01/05 :: Folder :: Society & Culture11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice04/08/04 :: Article :: Consent & Ethics :: Yes, I'm telling you not to tell me what to do. Got a problem with that?02/18/04 :: Article :: Consent :: This is going to get nasty. 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. 01/09/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Law as parent 01/08/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: UK report upcoming on psychosis effects of cannabis (pot)01/25/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Can competitive law work?01/06/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Is Europe Ready for 'Whore Power'?12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Culture and What Courts Can't Do12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Opponents Of Gay Marriage Divided10/03/05 :: Quote :: Henry KissingerWe must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. 10/03/05 :: Quote :: John MiltonHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and
punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeOne of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.  09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court JusticeThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...] 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. 07/31/08 :: Quote :: HL MenckenThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. 04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. 07/08/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The morality police 06/29/04 :: Article :: Freedom and Authority :: Shedding light on America's political system04/07/04 :: Article :: Moral Authority? :: 03/02/04 :: Article :: Anti-discrimination and the Church :: Should you be worried about gay marriage because your church doesn't want to officiate such things?02/12/04 :: Article :: Boobygate :: New and improved! Now easier to skim and ignore!!09/10/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Compass09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeThere's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Aldous HuxleyThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: George Bernard ShawThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. 07/01/04 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. 06/03/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: Papers portray Plot as more Talk than Action03/02/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Civil Rights Act of 196402/18/04 :: Article :: Civil Disobedience and other meaningless buzzwords. :: The Los Angeles Gay Marriage Contraversy02/14/05 :: Article :: Inchoate :: That which is not yet done, is not yet done.02/03/04 :: Article :: Attack of the Linux geeks! :: They're all a bunch of commie terrorists, out to get SCO, don't you know?02/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations) 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Demonax, Roman philosopher circa 150 A.D.Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. 07/12/04 :: File :: A talk about chastity with high-schoolers :: Real-Media audio07/01/04 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonA wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. 02/17/04 :: Article :: Justice and Power ...and nearly Powerless Justice :: Almost nobody is looking out for you02/17/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Hnida's story 03/13/11 :: Reference :: (link) :: See? What did I tell you about us doing this to ourselves?09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mahatma GandhiFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Jones' First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution. 08/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: AnswerMan responds to responses on lolicon04/13/04 :: Article :: Justice, law, morality, ethics :: What would you like?03/31/04 :: Article :: Dark future for the law? ::  03/30/09 :: Article :: The Abortion Debate Is Stupid. :: It seriously is.03/02/04 :: Article :: Equal opportunity :: Maybe we shouldn't always spell things out02/14/05 :: Article :: Having a reason for laws :: Because I said so!02/12/04 :: Article :: Baring it all :: Do we have to go there? |
