The bigger, more powerful, and more authoritarian the state, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

By claiming that offensive speech or offensive ideas authorize violence, you authorize violence against yourself when others find your speech or your ideas equally offensive. And that can only lead to civil war.

Love does not include hating on others. Not even on those who hate. Fighting hate by hating on haters is like fighting sin by joining the orgy.

Most of our interactions with each other involve fully consensual exchanges and transactions. That's our normal social behavior. Once we collectively realize the fact that that's normal human behavior, we'll also then realize that nothing else is needed. Nor wise.

The righteous cannot use 'The Ring of Power' and remain righteous. They can only destroy it.

The optimal case is where power is divided, diffuse, decentralized and limited. Anything that moves away from that ideal is dangerous, dumb and delusional. Risk of failure increases as the authority responsible for providing justice and security is concentrated into ever fewer en

The greater the separation of powers, and more widely, broadly and evenly power is distributed, the lower the probability of systemic failure.