The State is a good way to kill ourselves

Pollution and loud music justify intervention ...if consent can reasonably have been expected to be requisite or required.

Consent is a matter of opinion... to what extent do our actions require the consent of others? For example property may be disputed, a field which has not been claimed by anyone might be seen as common territory and people might object if someone claimed it for their own.

They might prefer you not to have done something but will not resist (you doing it). Perhaps the specific property rights in question have not been sufficiently well defined (yet).

When property rights have not been clearly established the concept of consent becomes nebulous. So then, how can an unfavourable action be well defined? It can't but it will have the characteristics of limiting the access of others to limited natural resources, in a similar way to pollution of the environment.

Pollution is when someone takes an unjustifiable proportion of the natural resources, for example playing loud music (to the disapproval of others, not a concert) in a crowded place.


The State is pollution... it relies on the arrogant idea that someone should have influence over you without your consent... without acting on their own, instead backed by the power of the State. There is no more reason to devote resources to the State of our jurisdiction than to any other State. We, ourselves are a resource and the State diminishes the extent of that resource. We could achieve so much more without the State. It is a pollution of the mind.

If the State is pollution who has been maligned? We can only be arrogant in the context of another: who is offended if the human race destroys itself? But then, if people starve as they did in China, Russia and anywhere else it has been tried... where is the loss?


People don't work as hard if their wealth gets stolen... they stop working. Even the ones who are willing to work don't know what to do because there is no price for anything.

We end up with nothing but at least it is shared.

31st January 2009