The Authority of Yourself
From Center for a Stateless Society by Jason Lee Byas
This essay is part of a C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium on Anarchism and Egoism
What I’ve said so far presents a dilemma for how anarchists should approach morality.
From Center for a Stateless Society by Jason Lee Byas
This essay is part of a C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium on Anarchism and Egoism
What I’ve said so far presents a dilemma for how anarchists should approach morality.
from Center for a Stateless Society by Jason Lee Byas
As I argued in my previous post, anyone who cares about morality needs a good answer to the amoralist challenge posed by someone like Stirner. As I also said there, this is especially true for those moralists who are also anarchists, since a morality without such an answer begins to look a good deal like the domination anarchism resists.
Everybody lies. And if you don’t, you’re lying.
This everyday tool of deception can save your ass or ruin your life depending on how you use it. And we have good reasons to lie: manipulation, self-defense, avoiding consequences. For someone stepping outside the boundaries of the law, relationships, work expectations, or simple social graces, telling a tall tale can be easier than facing the music. Fortunately, our collective compulsion to not tell the truth has grayed the moral waters of even our most definitive institutions – when asked if lying is wrong, a shaky “ehhhh, it depends” echos from the Church halls and Scientific offices. Even courts with perjury laws rarely enforce them.