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Only difference is now the government says "give me your stuff or I beat you" rather than your neighbor

• Dracophoenix 4y ago
  'When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick"'. - Mikhail Bakunin
• unethical_ban 4y ago
  If I had bezos money, I would buy a large swath of arable land, build a large wall around it, and offer 100k so called libertarians to walk in with some supplies. But they couldn't form government. Absolutely no form of mandatory taxation of any kind. And once they went in, they would be committed for five years. Oh, since we can't have them benefiting from positive outcomes of collective action, we'll pipe in polluted air and river waste to help simulate a truly free market environmental policy.
  • codeguro 4y ago
    > Oh, since we can't have them benefiting from positive outcomes of collective action, we'll pipe in polluted air and river waste to help simulate a truly free market environmental policy. That’s a completely artificial and shoehorned idea. If you want to prove a point about libertarians, do it properly in a closed system. They must be left to their own devices and are left to clean their own pollution.
    • unethical_ban 4y ago
      >closed system That's the point libertarians don't get: there is no closed system. There is no green field hypothetical.