The Non Aggression Principle

Let me illustrate with the following scenario.  One guy at work calls another guy at work Poopsie, as a nickname.  The guy being called Poopsie says, “Sir, please do not call me that.  I don’t like it.”

“Okay, Poopsie,” says the name caller.

Right there, the name call has broken the Non Aggression Principle.  So if the person being called Poopsie, then strikes the name caller, he is defending himself, and has not broken the Non Aggression Principle.  

This is the hypothesis, that if people blatantly disregard a reasonable request, they are violating the NAP.

I think I want to dig into this more.  Probably post on Reddit.  But did want to get this out there now, and then follow up more when I have time.  

2019 Book Review

Fall — Neil Stephenson 

The Last Stone — Bowden, Mark

Wiseguy — Nicholas Pileggi

Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) — Herbert, Frank

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland — Keefe, Patrick Radden

The Walking Dead, Vol. 31: The Rotten Core — Kirkman, Robert

The Walking Dead, Vol. 30: New World Order — Kirkman, Robert

The Walking Dead, Vol. 29: Lines We Cross — Kirkman, Robert

The Handmaid's Tale— Atwood, Margaret 

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I didn’t do a very good job here.  I only read 8 books and two of them were comic books, which I am able to read in one sitting.  But I did read the classic, Dune.  And I read the Handmaid’s Tale, another supposed classic. supposedly in the feminist style, and according to the hysterical, very appropriate for the Trump Era.

For my top book of the year I’m going to go with Say Nothing.  It gave a real close up picture of the human damage of The Troubles.  It was interesting to me because I have become less and less sympathetic of the IRA.  I sympathize with the issues, but not the means.  20 years of the war on terror will do that to you.  

Planning to spend more time reading this year.