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Libertarian Challenge #1 - Paying My Moral Debts
In which I begin to put my beliefs systematically to the test.
An easy and fairly painless one, first. I'm going through the list of all the free stuff I, personally, am currently getting only because other people are enthusiastic and generous. Then I'm seeing how much I can commit by way of fair return, and how much of that should or can be financial. The coming month is for sorting out the financial side.
The question turns out not to be an easy or a simple one at all, which is one of the reasons (or excuses) for my not having answered it very well previously. The easy and simple question I'm trying to answer in this challenge is: what am I going to do about it, right now?
For each problem I solve, I will allow myself one short post about one of the many issues behind this phase of the challenge, and the various questions, answers, and bewilderments in which it involves me. All feedback, as ever, will be gratefully received. Likewise, if any of my researches or mis-steps should later prove useful to anybody else, this challenge log will have served at least one of its principal purposes.
My immediate list of projects I believe I ought to be funding, but am not:
Several other things from which I benefit, and for which I am grateful, but which I presently expect not to be funding, will also come up for consideration.
'Ere we go...
An easy and fairly painless one, first. I'm going through the list of all the free stuff I, personally, am currently getting only because other people are enthusiastic and generous. Then I'm seeing how much I can commit by way of fair return, and how much of that should or can be financial. The coming month is for sorting out the financial side.
The question turns out not to be an easy or a simple one at all, which is one of the reasons (or excuses) for my not having answered it very well previously. The easy and simple question I'm trying to answer in this challenge is: what am I going to do about it, right now?
For each problem I solve, I will allow myself one short post about one of the many issues behind this phase of the challenge, and the various questions, answers, and bewilderments in which it involves me. All feedback, as ever, will be gratefully received. Likewise, if any of my researches or mis-steps should later prove useful to anybody else, this challenge log will have served at least one of its principal purposes.
My immediate list of projects I believe I ought to be funding, but am not:
- Dreamwidth, via paid membership. (I believe the LiveJournal community deserves my support in other ways: I don't feel any urge to support its administrators financially.) All I need to do here is sort out a technical issue with my card payment - hopefully possible this evening.
- Wikipedia. Yes, I have problems with it. No, that hasn't stopped me making extensive use of it. So...
- Project Gutenberg.
- The Center for a Stateless Society at the Molinari Institute - a political resource, here considered purely as a spring of much freely-given education and mental profit.
- Diane Duane, for the freely webbed version of her The Big Meow.
- Spybot Search and Destroy, that most excellent labour of love against the evil malware.
Several other things from which I benefit, and for which I am grateful, but which I presently expect not to be funding, will also come up for consideration.
'Ere we go...