Theme: Coercion

“I am unwilling to oppress another individual’s engagement in reciprocally voluntary trade, just as I am unwilling to tolerate another’s oppression of my reciprocal and voluntary trade.. But like all trade I am willing to suppress any externalities that emerge from others trade just as I assume they are willing to do to me. Public promiscuity is an externality that I am willing to suppress whether others are wiling to or not. Because public promiscuity encourages a hazard in the commons. And creating hazards in the commons is an imposition of risk cost upon others. And imposition of costs upon others is the only definition of ‘wrong’ in the context of ‘right/good, wrong/bad’ that I know of. Because imposition of costs upon others causes them to retaliate for one having done so. And both the export of risk into the commons, and the cycle of retaliation are harmful to the commons, and harmful to me, and is therefore something I will retaliate against by prior constraint. For this reason one does not determine what is inoffensive to others. Others determine what is offensive to them, and demonstrate it by retaliation. I understand that homosexuality is revolting offensive to many people, and so are many birth defects. The only solution to this problem that I know of is voluntary disassociation. And the my understanding of the problem is that people are prohibited by the monopoly state from voluntary disassociation.”