Teaching meaningful combining of arms since 2006, so you don't have to. Coyote-3U. Proponent of individual sovereignty. 0302 since the late 1900s.
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The concept of "sacrifice" is one of the greatest and most misunderstood concepts of the human condition. The very word connotes the bleeding of something that makes the uninitiated very uncomfortable.
To begin, let's deal with what Individual Sovereignty is and what it is NOT. Individual Sovereignty is indeed the natural right of each person to decide their own path. This implies a couple of things that we need to get out of the way right up front.
[I'm going to try to keep this manageable by carving it up into a couple/three pieces for those of you who hate threads >30-or-so tweets. 
Okay, so the levity is out of the way here, and I eagerly anticipate all the flak I'm gonna take for this, but Jesus has a sense of humor.
Despite what I've been assured by anarchists since I was back in college in the late 1900's, I can see the purpose in having a gov't. Defined precisely, a gov't is the embodiment of solutions to current problems.
A bit ago, we talked about the "Great American Stew Pot" and why that's awesome.
Okay everybody, let's talk this out. Let's admit some hard truths that might be hard to admit. Let's look at all of this realistically. Any who disagree are always more than welcome to challenge this, and I encourage you to do so in the spaces below this.
It's called "Plato's Apology", for some reason. Yet it is among the most fantastic accounts ever recorded by mortal man. So, some context, as many may not be aware of Peloponnesian era Greek history. 
Fella named Martin Heidegger came around and started writing about a hundo years ago. Dove into some deep, deep water that we've been left to consider. He challenged Descartes. He challenged much of the Platonic tradition.
"Kuhn described science as a social community, and he highlighted the productive tension in science between tradition and innovation or between stability and change".
"Kuhn described science as a social community, and he highlighted the productive tension in science between tradition and innovation or between stability and change."
So, check this out first, because it's actually pretty good coming from someone who's an observer of the military culture. 
Moses was touched by God, had to face down his own doubts about God and about himself. That was part 1 and can be found here:
A quick lead in that is not related to Exodus, but which is common to the human condition and is remarkable throughout this entire argument. 
There is so much truth that we can take from Exodus, if we can just put down our modern sensibilities and consult that ancient wisdom that lies deep within each of us.
But she used to repeat, watching the news of the day, that "You can't legislate morality." I've been working that out since I was 18, and on it's face, it's completely bullshit, since Moses' Ten Commandments and the Hammurabi code are both results...
An instruction manual.