"Why Peace" concludes: Peace is best for all and its time has come
Channel: FreeKeene
Date: 2012-01-24

"Many individuals around the world have learned that only by interacting peacefully can we achieve a more harmonious, prosperous, healthy, fair and tolerant society, that our lives on this planet can be far better. People universally oppose acts of aggression, theft, and fraud when committed by individuals. We accept the principle that the initiation of physical force against others is illegitimate, immoral, and may rightly be defended against. For the most part, we also insist that organizations of individuals, such as corporations, also abide by this natural tenet.

"When it comes to state aggression, however, especially that wrought by democratic governments, the perspective for many can change. Individuals too often excuse the state when it harms innocent individuals. This may be because they feel powerless to effect change or uninformed, preferring to defer to those more knowledgeable. They may possess cultivated feelings of nationalism and exceptionalism; expectations of benevolence and altruism in state officials; fears of attack, fostered by interventionist propaganda and complicit mainstream media; yearnings for conformity; or just a willingness to harm, burden or restrict others, in the expectation of benefit to ends and causes they themselves consider to be good ones. Thus, when our governments act as aggressors rather than protectors of human rights, many individuals remain silent."

So begins the the forward to Why Peace, an over 600-page compilation of pro-peace essays edited by Marc Guttman. 

Read the full post: http://FreeKeene.com/Why-Peace

Check out the book's website: http://Why-Peace.com

Read Wikipedia's overview on Agorism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism

Read: "'A Was For America: My Journey to Voluntaryism": http://voluntaryist.com/howibecame/eyre.html