The issue I am dealing with personally is a societal problem, and it has a lot of my anarchist friends silent. Meanwhile, they ask me if I can relate to the plight of a two time offender of spousal abuse who sports visible gang affiliation tattoos and why I won't sympathize with his lack of "due process". wHaT iF iT hApPenEd tO yOu? What proctologist would I use if unicorns flew out of my butt? I’m not gonna answer that totally irrelevant question. Followed by, gAnG mEmBeRs hAvE rIgHtS, tOo!
I get it.
Giving every single illegal immigrant due process before being tossed would clog up the system, and we would have to concede open borders as a result. Open borders happen to be part of your religious mores, your purity code you refer to as “principles.” “The right to travel freely.”
But there’s never any thought to the real life consequences of taking your purity code to the bitter end. There’s never any thought of the people experiencing the consequences already today of the immigrants who happen to destroy their lives, their neighborhoods, their property values or their freedom of movement by creating a social disorder of terrorist war zone magnitude- except that one futile murmur of how that one illegal alien did violate the NAP directly which you obviously are against, but in the next breath, on you go about how all people deserve due process and shouldn’t be deported in any case afterwards.
The reason many of my "friends" are silent in my real life scenario is because they, most of them, live in communal housing situations (apartments, condos, basement rentals, with shared walls and close quarters, etc) and flagrantly smoke weed without a thought to the plight of their neighbors.
I represent their neighbors.
If issues come up in their own reality, they rally all their friends together to support their war with the state against their rights to self medicate or blame pharma for ostracizing this drug and not the pharma products that kill millions (3rd leading cause of death in the US is properly prescribed medications). They have a point. It’s just not necessarily the completely sovereign one.
They don't acknowledge the family above them who called the cops in the first place because they were sick of their kids being involuntarily exposed day in, day out to second hand smoke and tar and bullshit. What about their freedom? If they do mention her, she's a bootlicker "karen" who won't mind her own business. And without question, everyone goes full NPC and agrees, because weed is literally the anarchist's most favorite freedom upon which all other principles take a backseat.
A year and a half ago, it was their undying support of my crazy landlord’s right to insert herself in my life, and as I was in the middle of that nightmare, I had to listen to the saga of how hard landlords have it. sLuMlOrDs hAvE rIgHtS, tOo. Before that it was how private companies can tell me to wear a mask to the grocery store, FB can lie and censor views, airlines can make their own rules, iTs a pRiVaTe cOmPaNy, bRo.
Maybe a year ago one of my friends said that they thought I had been through something that hurt me and made me react in ignorance and cold indifference to human rights because I acknowledged that most people today are irreparably retarded, possibly always were and need and desire management. How could I have possibly turned my back on voluntaryists and their so called principles? She couldn’t possibly get it.
Isn't it obvious who turned their backs on whom here?
Principles can’t come before humanity, human nature. Even the notion of consent comes secondary to human nature, human impulses that establish right from wrong. If humans matter, we have to understand and be honest about human nature.
This is my life right now. I am trying to protect my health and moreover the health of my children. If all you have to offer on it is how my neighbors are violating the NAP (which does literally nothing on God’s green earth to help this situation in the United States of America- which you also happen to feel is a fictional entity), fuck right off.