No State More Extensive Than The Minimal

One Way To Determine If A View Is Inadequate Is To Check Its Consequences In Particular Cases, Sometimes Extreme Ones, But If Someone Always Decided What The Result Should Be In Any Case By Applying The Given View Itself, This Would Preclude Discovering It Did Not Correctly Fit The Case. Readers Who Hold They Would Plug In To The Machine Should Notice Whether Their First Impulse Was Not To Do So, Followed Later By The Thought That Since Only Experiences Could Matter, The Machine Would Be All Right After All.

Instead Of Trying To Prove Your Opponent Wrong, Try To See In What Sense He Might Be Right.

Through The Evolutionary Process, Those Who Are Able To Engage In Social Cooperation Of Various Sorts Do Better In Survival And Reproduction.

Some Communities Will Be Abandoned, Others Will Struggle Along, Others Will Split, Others Will Flourish, Gain Members, And Be Duplicated Elsewhere. Each Community Must Win And Hold The Voluntary Adherence Of Its Members. No Pattern Is Imposed On Everyone, And The Result Will Be One Pattern If And Only If Everyone Voluntarily Chooses To Live In Accordance With That Pattern Of Community.

The Illegitimate Use Of A State By Economic Interests For Their Own Ends Is Based Upon A Preexisting Illegitimate Power Of The State To Enrich Some Persons At The Expense Of Others. Eliminate That Illegitimate Power Of Giving Differential Economic Benefits And You Eliminate Or Drastically Restrict The Motive For Wanting Political Influence.