WHICH PROMISE IS MORE HONEST, AND MORE TRUE? What’s more honest? You have natura

WHICH PROMISE IS MORE HONEST, AND MORE TRUE?

What’s more honest? You have natural rights? God made you in his image? We are all equal?

Or, from a long line of animals you have been domesticated. You can transition from an animal in the possession of other men, to a man who has property, in exchange for an oath, and your promise to fulfill it, in every day of your life, in the market for reproduction we call marriage; in the market for consumption we call the economy; in the market for commons we call government; in the market for defense we call war; in the market for information we call knowledge; in the market for norms we call culture. And if you swear a contract with all other sovereign men, that you will speak the truth and only the truth, impose no cost on any of those markets without payment for it in advance, and to punish all those who do otherwise, then you may too rise to sovereignty, and become man, rather than mere animal. But pray you take heed, because if you violate this oath, we will punish, deprive, or kill you for it.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute