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What libertarians deny is reality itself. Government is defined as a monopoly on violence. Non-coercive government is a contradiction in terms.
by sethrin 9y ago
What libertarians deny is reality itself. Government is defined as a monopoly on violence. Non-coercive government is a contradiction in terms.
- pjkundert 9y agoWhat straw-man libertarians deny... what real libertarians do is agree with bounds on government power that respect the liberty of all,to as great an extent as possible while protecting the community from attack.
- VVyattPrentice 9y agoSo slavery? cool? You're cool with slavery? Just want to be sure we're using the same definition of liberty here.
- dang 9y agoCould you please not use HN for ideological battle? That's destructive of what the site is for, so we eventually have to moderate accounts that do it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 9y ago> What libertarians deny is reality itself. Please keep generic ideological bickering off HN. It's always the same, therefore never interesting in the local sense of the word. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html