Why War is Immoral by Daniel Lakemacher
LOUISVILLE, KY – A couple of weeks before we were slated to be the Chicagoland area we received an email from fellow freedom fighter John Delano who noted that we “might be interested in interviewing” Daniel Lakemacher, who, he told us, was in the military but since enlisting had taken a radically different view and in fact, started a site called WarIsImmoral.com. After checking out his site I got in touch with Daniel and found that John wasn’t lying – Daniel would make an excellent interview.
A week later he drove to Jackson, WI to hang (where he learned that the meetup there had been canceled), came back the next day for our Milwaukee meetup, then joined us a few days later at our Chicago meetup. It was just before that last meetup that we were able to shoot his interview (hat-tip to our bud Arno for manning the camera) at a nearby park and as you’ll see, it’s damn solid.
In the video Daniel shares his personal journey – from working at an insurance firm in downtown Chicago to enlisting in the Navy post-9.11 to discovering the ideas of liberty and encouraging others to “think for themselves” – in what I can honestly say is one of the most compelling interviews I’ve have the privilege to capture and share. I have no doubt that Daniel will inspire others in and out of uniform to face the reality of their actions and quite possibly, result in a paradigm shift so that they live morally.
This connection with Daniel is just another great example of how we rely on the info that YOU have to put out a better product and introduce more people to the ideas of a voluntary society. Keep ‘em coming!
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Great video guys very well done!
Right on Daniel!
I have been enjoying listening to Daniel the last couple of weeks as he has been a co-host/guest on complete liberty and has been doing a good job.
Kind of amusing that he was turned on the non-aggression axiom by Ayn Rand, probably the most hawkish and least anti-military of the libertarian greats.
Clever shirt, but intellectually dishonest. You signed up of your own free will; agreed to a specified term of service and now you changed your mind. You can quit . . . just accept the consequences.
There is evil in the world. Sometimes the only way to stop it is war.
Just because there is evil in the world and you believe that sometimes war is necessary to stop it, does that mean that another person can’t choose not to participate in such activities? That seems much more intellectually dishonest. To believe something to be wrong but to do it anyway (because you were ordered to do so, faced punishment if you didn’t, or signed a contract promising to complete it before you thought it was wrong) would be the height of intellectual and MORAL dishonesty!