They certainly are, haha. That's part of why I created it this way, because when you talk about some of the things in the later pillars, many an-caps/voluntaryists/libertarians like to jump to using the perjorative communist, and try to start arguing about how force is wrong and government is violence and authoritarian socialism is bad... I agree with those things, and I wanted to clarify that part of the conversation right off the bat.
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Well, I have a "dumb question" now 😉
The first 4 pillars make complete sense to me since I embraced libertarianism during the last election. I honestly wouldn't have thought of all the communist etc things for the last 4 because I'm stuck on a practical downside of the 6th pillar: if animals and plants are the exclusive proprietors of their own existence, doesn't that imply that we need their consent to eat them? And since that isn't exactly going to happen, what are we supposed to eat? This seems to knock even veganism on its head. 🤔 What am I missing?
Animals are not food, they are living beings with consciousness, preferences, and feelings. They will do literally anything to escape being killed, imprisoned, etc.
Plants on the other hand are usually not killed to eat (the biggest exception being certain root vegetables), and in general we eat the parts that are designed to be eaten to spread the seeds (fruits/flowers), and parts that will simply wither off and die on their own (leaves).
The biggest shift is in the viewing of and relationship to these living things. Am I just stumbling around tearing up plants to eat, or am I present, seeing what is ready to be eaten, and showing my gratitude for the plant.