Libertarianism

“The Guns and Soul of America,” David Brooks, Oct. 6, 2017 The piece “The Guns and Soul of America” by David Brooks, questions the seemingly obvious belief: that as there is an increase in violent deaths and mass shootings involving privately owned firearms, there should also be an increase in stricter gun laws, and a downturn in popular opinion regarding gun ownership. Instead, in his column, Brooks writes to prove that the opposite is the case - that as the instances of mass shootings occur,…

One Nation Under God Growing up in a Christian household, I was raised in believing that the United States and God went together. Even throughout all my schooling up until college I blindly participated in the pledge of allegiance, national anthem and other ceremonies that connected the country to god. I never questioned where my belief came from and for that matter where all of this nation’s god association came from. Being actively interested in history I knew that the pledge wasn’t always…

Affirmative action is a product of the Civil Rights Movement, in an attempt to give equal opportunities to all the people across America, mostly minorities and women. Even though the Civil Rights Movement did end segregation and attempted to give equality to minorities and women, it was not successful in doing so. Affirmative actions was the means in which minorities and women would have a better chance in the workplace as well as education to be given an equal chance in getting the job or…

1) The powers and obligations of the legislative branch, as dictated by Article 1 of the Constitution, as a whole are as follows: sole authority to enact or change legislation, to make all laws necessary and proper, declare war, sign or pass bills, to tax, borrow money, regulate commerce with foreign nations, regulate commerce among the states, to establish rules for the naturalization of foreigners seeking citizen ship, to establish a post office, to raise and army and navy, the right to…

Introduction I. In this paper, I will be arguing for the following claim that we, human beings are not predetermined beings, but rather we have free will. It has long been argued that people are not free and do not have free will; that rather than having free will we live in a world that is predetermined. That our choices and actions are reflections of and happen because of a long line of other choices and action that caused the present, and thus we have a fixed future. This is just not the…

going to think, believe, act, associate and disassociate in ways that others will most likely disapprove of. It is precisely in these situations where we must stand firm in support of the non-aggression principle. One of the main issues I see with libertarianism being too “thin” is that thin libertarians see any justification of liberty as acceptable; it’s as if liberty is a contingent matter for them. If we use the example of racial discrimination or bigotry, libertarians who are accepting of…

Introduction The Matrix is a popular American-Australian science fiction movie that was first produced in 1999. The action movie depicts a unique dystopian future where the human-perceived reality is seen as a stimulated reality known as “the Matrix”. This stimulated reality created by sentient machines was designed to subdue the human population and use the heat and electrical activity of the human bodies as source of energy. A computer programmer known as “Neo” discovered the secret behind the…

Starbucks overhauled their business on multiple dimensions with the return of Howard Schultz as the CEO. The aim was bringing back the focus to being the world’s top brewer of coffee. The various measures implemented were: • Starbucks shut down all stores across the country in order to re-train the employees on how to make the perfect espresso. • Starbucks dropped hot breakfast sandwiches from its stores which led to loss of annual income amounting to $35,000 per store. • The company restocked…