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** FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
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All the laws of nature which regulate property as well as all civil laws are general and regard alone some essential circumstances of the case, without taking into consideration the characters, situations, and connections of the person concerned or any particular consequences which may result from the determination of these laws in any particular case which offers. They deprive, without scruple, a beneficent man of all his possessions if acquired by mistake, without a good title, in order to bestow them on a selfish miser who has already heaped up immense stores of superfluous riches. Public utility requires that property should be regulated by general inflexible rules; and though such rules are adopted as best serve the same end of public utility, it is impossible for them to prevent all particular hardships or make beneficial consequences result from every individual case. It is sufficient if the whole plan or scheme be necessary to the support of civil society and if the balance of good,
in the main, do thereby preponderate much above that of evil.
– David Hume,
Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals ([link removed]) [1777]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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September 17, 2021
The Afghanistan Debacle: A Huge Opportunity for Freedom ([link removed])
Opportunities to make a big advances toward liberty don’t come very often. The Afghanistan debacle provides a huge opportunity to do that. One option, of course, is to make the case that the Afghanistan invasion and occupation were mismanaged. In other words, the case for reforming America’s system of foreign interventionism. That’s the wrong approach. That’s not going to get us moving ...
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China's Export Subsidies Are a Gift ([link removed])
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September 11 Remembered, Minus the Propaganda ([link removed])
by Daniel McAdams with Tom Woods
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Guantánamo Must Close ([link removed])
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Shut Down the Drone War ([link removed])
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20 Years after the Attacks, the Accused of 9/11 Must Finally Be Tried — in Civilian Courts ([link removed])
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