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Eckhart Aurelius Hughes is the author of In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All. He also runs a free mentoring program that guarantees success..


Question: "When it comes to shoving my help down someone else's throat, don't the ends justify the means?"


The end of your well-intentioned roads is hell.

But, even if it wasn't, no, the ends don't justify the means.

Don't shove your help down people's throats. Don't think you know better what's best for other people than they do. Clean your own proverbial backyard instead of trespassing on your neighbor's. Live and let live. Take self-responsibility for yourself, and let other's have their own self-responsibility (i.e. freedom). Leave them be. Don't be a busybody. Mind your business.

Never ever prioritize "charity", "kindness", "helping someone", or the so-called "greater good" over respecting other people's freedom, meaning their self-responsibility, self-determination, self-ownership, and self-control. Never ever violate people's political or spiritual freedom, neither with literal aggressive violence (i.e. a violation of the Non-Aggression Principle), nor with the non-violent spiritual equivalent, such as by being a (albeit non-violent) nosy busybody control freak who seeks to (non-violently) shove your help down people's throats and decide what's best for their yards rather than solely cleaning your own and letting them do what they wish with theirs. Live and let live, not just in the political sense but also in the broader spiritual sense.

That all is, of course, only if you want to take my advice and follow my infinitely easy and cheap system for guaranteed success and happiness.

If you would rather be unhappy or such, you'll want to do the opposite of what I have said.


Here is a paragraph from Page 1 of my book, "In It Together":

Such self-proclaimed utilitarians may be the most dangerous people, if not for their self-righteousness, then for the eager willingness with which they commit violent atrocities. Indeed, the most dangerous people capable of the most violent acts often tend to be the ones who think they, unequally, are the so-called “good guys”.

Remember, Hitler and the Nazis thought they were the good guys and genuinely believed what they were doing was for the greater good.

The more someone believes he or she and their team are the good guys and their ends can and do justify means, the more dangerous, destructive, and utterly delusional that person is.

Insofar as there even is "good guys" and "bad guys", then the more someone thinks they are a "good guy", the more they thus are a "bad guy". In that way, the worst people are the ones who most think they, unequally, are the best, or that they know better. However, when you really understand and accept these teachings of mine, you realize there are no "good guys" or "bad guys", and that's all just dangerous superstitious nonsense that the self-proclaimed "good guys" believe in, leading to their violence, god complexes, and hell-headed good intentions that justify their impositions on others' political and/or spiritual freedom.

Then, like me, you say, everyone and everything is a beautiful success. Failure is an illusion. Bees don't fail to be trees, and trees don't fail to be bees. A drinking alcoholic doesn't fail to be sober; he succeeds at drinking. A cheating spouse doesn't fail to be faithful; he succeeds at cheating. Even god-complex-having control freaks and literal rotten crooked trees both simply are what they are, and they are very successful, beautifully so, at being exactly what they are. From there, it becomes that much more emotionally and spiritually rewarding to just them be, to live and let live, and happily say, "to each their own".

Certainly, use defensive force as needed to defend yourself and peaceful others from aggressive violence. Likewise, spiritually speaking, set up healthy boundaries to cut off the imposers and keep them out of your life and out of your proverbial backyard. When I say live and live and to each their own, I mean the opposite of saying let people violently attack you or others or, spiritually speaking, let others shove their help down your throat or trespass on your proverbial backyard. Trespass not, and defend yourself against trespassers, both spiritual and political.

Of course, don't use political defenses (i.e. violence) against mere spiritual (i.e. non-violent) impositions (e.g. emotional blackmail, moralizing judgementalism, non-violent verbal bossiness, or someone shoulding on you). You can typically defend yourself against those non-violent impositions merely by using the block button or politely but firmly telling someone you don't want them to be in your life anymore, at least until they learn to stop trying to control you, to mind their own damn business, and to not proverbially try to (non-violently) shove their help down your throat. You don't defend your proverbial backyard or proverbial throat with literal violence, only your literal backyard and literal throat warrant that kind of defense. But you do defend your proverbial throat and proverbial backyard with all-out metaphorical force, meeting the imposition as firmly as it meets your borders, if not firmer.


For more on this topic, please read the following advice articles of mine:

Whether you are looking for a savior or someone to save, or both, look into a mirror.

Dangerous Moral Busybodies | "A tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

Orwellian Agent-Smithism | How Control Freaks, God Complexes, And Violent Nanny Statism Attack Freedom and Diversity

All the do-gooders are troublemakers: A plague of virtuous people | A perfectly pestiferous mass of a million saints


With love,
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes

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