Tuesday, January 27, 2015
On the Notion by Some Statist Fascists that Libertarianism is a "Loathsome Philosophy"
Liberty is loathsome? Against force is loathsome? Refusing to yield more and more power to the most destructive institution that mankind has ever constructed (266 MILLION and counting - and that's not even including warfare) is loathsome? Let's do a little thought experiment here, folks. You've got two people on the line, one from Apple (a salesman, say) and one from the federal government. Which of the two would you be more frightened to hang up on? Me, it would be the ones with the weapons, the ones that go around knocking doors down.
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The problem with large L libertarianism is it's natural full blown state us anarchy.
I'll take anarchy over totalitarianism any day.
Will said: "I'll take anarchy over totalitarianism any day."
Yeah, one can compare the experience in anarchic Somalia, miserable as it is... but a paradise compared to the typical socialist state.
Apple has never called me, but I
would hang up on that *%& home
security salesman before I'd hang
up on the US government.
We know totalitarianism is bad.
We just have to guess at anarchy.
I'm thinking like 300 million kindergartners, mostly armed?
Enjoy the ride, it just may happen. Even Ayn Rand realized the dangers in full blown big L libertarianism.
Ultimately mob rule. Humans are incapable of self regulating. We are seeing increasingly more almost daily.
Yuppers BB, you nailed it.
How 'bout California during the Gold Rush years? There was next to no government during that time and yet people were able to resolve disputes amicably through voluntary associations, and it wasn't until the government came barreling in with their railroads that the violence/bullets (in the form of a wholesale killing spree of the Plains Indians) really started to fly.
It ain't 1849 and people have become less civil and going downhill fast.
Will said:
"How 'bout California during the Gold Rush years?"
How about it? I just happened to have read about this a few weeks ago.
The gold rush era was indeed a
time of frontier justice
and various vigilantes and a sort
of primitive law operated...and
in many cases, hardly 'amicable'.
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