Nothing Persuades Like an Easton!

I deeply believe in getting to the roots of issues, so let's make something perfectly clear. And I mean clear enough to turn a challenge to a fight at a biker bar into a discussion of philosophy! This is a level on which I speak from experience; I've done it more than a few times.

A Right is a restraint placed on the actions of others. It is enforced by you - by your own powers of force and persuasion.

Humans are naturally given to social behavior, so persuasion is very powerful among us.

We are also the most effective appliers of physical force on earth.

Our social nature makes us desire to deal with one another through persuasion; our violent abilities make it necessary to deal with one another through persuasion.

Successful societies do this well, unsuccessful ones don't. Societies whose members deal with one another through persuasion must defend themselves against societies whose members deal with one another through force.

The good news is, that God has ordained (and I, personally, have no proplem with you taking that expression figuratively - replace God with 'nature,' 'reality,' or 'evolution' if you prefer; we are what we are) that persuasion is a more productive/constructive force - cooperation - LOVE! In every sense of the word! - provides Persuasion more tools for its defense than Force (i. e. the physical manifestation of Fear or Hate) can muster.

As long as the practitioners of Love remember that they can't afford to forget that there are practitioners of Force who won't accept Love for an answer.

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BTW Fear and Hate are not the same thing, and there can be good reasons for either. The initiation of the use of force against innocents is the key to understanding: the initiation of force must be stopped. With force if necessary.

Oh! What's an Easton? One of these.