Short truths
© Paul Cooijmans
Introduction
This collection is meant for use in oral situations where it is needed to get a point across quickly to avoid interruption by others. It is recommended to memorize these truths to have them ready at any time. Use in writing is of course also allowed.
The truths
- Communist rule lowers a population's mean I.Q. by three points per generation.
- Awareness differs from consciousness primarily in that it is easier to spell.
- Abbreviations are quick to write but slow to read.
- It is shocking to see what hateful reactions one gets when one defends the speaking of truth, or even merely says that truth exists.
- If you allow people to make money in unethical ways, you are allowing unethical people to make money.
- The best way to spoil a vase is to put flowers in it.
- In all likelihood, the first real proof of Darwin's theory that a species can evolve into another species will be provided by humans evolving back into apes.
- When death penalty is reinstated, I will apply to be the person who executes it.
- Who threatens must be treated as if the threat had already been executed.
- Marxism is the pitfall of the intelligent.
- If someone is opposed to hard treatment of crime, it must always be asked what INTEREST he has in criminals being treated softly. Political? Business? Personal perhaps?
- If someone says things like "Intelligence is not important", it is safe to assume nothing he has to say needs to be taken seriously.
- One of the regrettable aspects of political correctness is that it dictates to call someone "X-phobe" who makes perfectly sound observations about X.
- Stupidity provokes aggression.
- Nowhere is the difference between "professional" and "amateur" greater than in the field of music.
- The one essential human right is the right to defend oneself when innocently attacked or otherwise treated unrighteously.
- If someone says "I wouldn't want to win a million" - or whatever large amount - "in the lottery because I wouldn't know what to do with all that money", all he has must be taken away from him so that he will quickly and ruthlessly learn the necessity and value of possession.
- In scientific articles, remarks like "More research is needed..." must be forbidden.
- I will only become an organ donor with the guarantee that my organs are not given to a criminal.
- Smoking in the presence of non-smokers is attempted murder.
- Only liars need to convince.
- One word says more than a thousand pictures.
- It is better to die of hunger than to steal a loaf of bread.
- Modesty is the worst form of bragging. It is the vanity of the dishonest; the arrogance of cowards.
- If honesty and righteousness are not rewarded in the end, life is not worth living anyway.
- Evil and stupidity are equally harmful.
- The worst prejudice is the idea that all humans are equal.
- More is learned by THINKING than by ASKING.
- The abolishment of death penalty marks the beginning of the end of civilization.
- Security is achieved by double-locking your bike; safety by removing the bike thieves from society.
- That rape victims, rather than culprits, are stoned to death in some cultures does not make rape the slightest bit less immoral; It merely demonstrates the backwardness, inferiority and immorality of those cultures.
- The notion "Crime is culturally defined" is not compatible with intelligence.
- Truth hurts only who believe in lies.
- Poverty does not cause people to commit crimes. Genes do.
- Where security is needed, it is not safe.
- The best aid to victims is to punish the culprit.
- Communism made a lot more victims than did the Nazis. Then why is Mein Kampf a forbidden book in many countries, while Das Kapital is not?
- Only the thief is guilty when unprotected property is stolen.
- To be right is better than to be put in the right.
- The expression "give cause for theft" is an insult to the righteous and must not appear in law.
- Who steals disclaims his right to own.
- Who commits a crime disclaims his rights.
- When a criminal is released and subsequently commits a new crime, the original sentence was apparently too short.
- The only structural way to greatly reduce crime is to remove repetitive criminals from society for good.
- Victims must be allowed to defend themselves and arrest their attacker without needing to worry about "proportionality" of violence; The responsibility for possible disproportional violence is exclusively for the attacker.
- One becomes guilty by acting against an innocent, not by acting against a guilty.
- Criminals must not be allowed to pay their lawyers with money obtained through crime; When it becomes apparent they have done so, the full sum must be taken away from the lawyer and given back to the criminal's victims.
- I can not stand the truth being violated; Others can not stand the truth.