Unforturnately, you didn't manage to get your car to the shop today. It's something you're going to need to get taken care of very soon. That squeeling sound when you first apply the gas after starting it up from sitting for several hours is concerning. You're told that normally signals that the belts need to be changed out. You also need to get the oxygen sensor changed, or else you probably won't pass the Travis County environmental test during inspection, which your car is due for come March. At least you managed to fix the burned out brake light.
You had a good conversation with your girlfriend's writer-friend yesterday evening. He's working on a graphic novel himself in collaboration with an artist, and he wanted some insight on the comic book industry in general since he wasn't very familiar with it. Interesting how knowledge you've come to take for granted over the years would have so much value to someone else. You're reminded of your senior-year high school English teacher giving you insight on how teaching isn't just the giving away of knowledge, but is a process of learning in and of itself as well. The process puts things in perspective, sometimes a variety of perspectives, which can lead to new levels of understanding. It was a fruitful experience, both intellectually and materially as he also gave you the download link for the scripting software he was using, which looked very robust and useful to your own endeavors. You're looking forward to trying out the software, possibly writing the final draft of Droid Soldiers chapter four in it.
Later that evening you met with your girlfriend at a karaoke bar where old friends of hers were celebrating birthdays. You both had agreed that after flaking out of going out on Saturday night, that you both needed to get out and socialize after having stayed in all week working on respective projects. At the karaoke bar, one of her friends you met was a government employee. You seemed to forget yourself, because you immediately started talking to him about the inefficiency and immorality of the state, though not in those words. You never used the word "libertarian", but you later found out he pegged you for one and decided he didn't have the patience for the discussion that he was foreseeing, especially since it was his birthday. You regret this social faux pas; you've done it many times in the past, but you've since become more sympathetic to the desire of others to just enjoy being and not discuss anything serious, especially politics.
For the record, you don't label yourself as "libertarian". If you do take a label, it's "voluntaryist"; at least for now. At this point, you currently organize your position as follows:
"LIMITS
FOR ALL
HUMAN VIOLENCE"
1. No one can legitimately initiate a threat or act of bodily harm or control against another human being without direct consent ( which can be withdrawn at will ).
2. No one can legitimately enter, possess, damage, or consume either directly or remotely, another human being's property without direct consent ( which can be withdrawn at will ) from that human being.
2a. No human being can legitimately be property.
2b. Nothing intangible can legitimately be property.
3. Violence cannot legitimately be employed against human beings who are not currently in violation of Law 1 and/or Law 2.
You didn't create these concepts. This is just your own personal wording for what is called the Zero Aggression Principle. or more commonly the Non-Aggression Principle or Non-Aggression Axiom. This doesn't directly account for dispute resolution rules, but really, any can be applied so long as they don't violate the above. Not all agree with your wording. But that's fine. Besides, you've already stayed up too late.
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