The Good Neighbor's Project

"Good does not always triumph over Evil; and Evil does not always triumph over Good. But the active always triumph over the passive."

– The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

The Free State Project is a political migration movement with the goal of recruiting 20,000 liberty-minded individuals to move to New Hampshire. The project seeks to concentrate pro-liberty activists in New Hampshire to "[create] a society in which the maximum role of civil government is the protection of individuals' rights to life, liberty, and property."

While the FSP has been the most successful libertarian political strategy to date, the FSP's "big tent" strategy has attracted a significant number of people who behave badly and advocate for authoritarian policies that sharply conflict with libertarian ethics and economic principles.

Therefore, the Good Neighbors Project is devoted to:

• Recruiting neighborly libertarians: principled libertarians who consistently exhibit character traits that most people want in their neighbors, such as intellectual honesty, kindness, civility, industriousness, and generosity.

• Creating communities of such libertarians (in New Hampshire and a small number of other global strongholds) based on private property rights, mutual consent, and mutual contractual obligations.

• Growing libertarian communities in size, power, and territory sufficient to defend ourselves from attack.

Examples of Good Neighbor behavior include (but are not limited to):

• Helping your elderly neighbors to clear their yards of weeds and snow.
• Starting a business that provides a valued service to the community.
• Helping newcomers to the community move into their homes.
• Defending someone who is being attacked at a train station.
• Raising money for private schools / homeschooling.
• Promoting politicians / legislation seeking to repeal authoritarian / rent-seeking laws.
• Contributing time and money to voluntary alternatives to government services, such as a volunteer fire dept.
• Teaching a young person a useful skill, such as auto repair, carpentry, or cooking.
• Cleaning parks of trash.
• Creating beautiful art / gardens.

Examples of Bad Neighbor behavior:

• Promoting statist policies (such as zoning regulations, immigration suppression laws, or censorship) that are intended to create a libertarian state via government coercion.
• Threatening violence against our neighbors (assault, expropriation, deportation, censorship, and assassination).
• Shouting down speakers, disrupting public events, or otherwise silencing others by force or intimidation.
• Treating neighbors with contempt based on race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation.
• Calling for the suppression of peaceful speech, commerce, or lifestyle choices merely because you find them offensive or morally distasteful.
• Seeking rent-seeking regulations that privilege oneself at the expense of others.
• Colluding with local / state / Federal agents who violate individual liberty / property rights.
• Seeking wealth or power via immoral means, such as fraud, extortion, or appealing to common failures of human reasoning (ignorance, stupidity, logical fallacies, appeals to emotion, etc.).
• Advocating coercive welfare schemes that depend on state-sponsored violence for financial support.
• Refusing to make restitution when one causes harm to others.
• Creating pollution (loud noise, litter, sewage) that crosses outside of your property.
• Recruiting more Bad Neighbors.

Do the values of The Good Neighbors Project appeal to you?

Would you like to contribute to the Good Neighbors Project?

Please help spread the word, and post the Good Neighbor Pledge to your social media accounts:

The Good Neighbor Pledge

I pledge to be a Good Neighbor at all times:

1. I will strive to create health, wealth, and beauty for myself and my neighbors via ethical means. (1)
2. I will support individual liberty and equality before the law for all, even when I personally find their speech, art, or conduct repugnant. (2)
3. I will support the proactionary principle. (3)
4. I will help my neighbors who suffer misfortune. (4)
5. I will support the enforcement of laws that protect people from force, fraud, and violations of their property rights.
6. I will model good character at all times.
7. I will make amends as best as I can if I cause harm to others.
8. I will share my knowledge freely and generously with all.
9. I will strive to be fair, intellectually honest, and hold myself to the highest standards of scientific integrity.
10. I will act with as much energy as I can muster to further the mission of the Good Neighbors.

1. Without force, fraud, or coercion.

2. Regardless of race, sex, birthplace, religion, or sexual orientation.

3. As opposed to the precautionary principle, the proactionary principle emphasizes the moral imperative to explore new technologies – such as biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and geoengineering – by weighing their potential benefits against the risks of inaction.

4. Including – but not limited to – misfortune due to illness, injury, drug addiction, old age, mental illness, job loss, political persecution, and criminal assault.

The Good Neighbor's Project is a project of the Liberty Gardeners. Please join our Signal chat. There is also a low-volume announce-only group for important events.