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Libertarians are like house cats, they’re convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.
by friendzis 2y ago
Libertarians are like house cats, they’re convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.
- card_zero 2y agoIt's true, am a cat. But tax is coercion. Make it voluntary, and people won't pay it. Despite this, a lot of people are fine with it because it gets them roads and state pensions and healthcare or whatever. Some people want it to be increased, thereby volunteering to pay more and volunteering others to do the same. Everything is based on force, and the social contract is a kind of Stockholm syndrome.
- friendzis 2y ago> social contract is a kind of Stockholm syndrome One could always retreat to wildlands of Siberia and live their own happy life away from roads and reddit. One would not survive for long without the same society, which produced the survival knowledge, but one could at least try. > Everything is based on force How do you reconcile "what's stopping me from hitting you with 5 euro wrench" without the fantasyland non-aggression principle? Without that "social contract" and with absolute personal liberty, any rights/liberties/freedoms exist solely to the extent one themselves can enforce them against the mighty five euro wrench.
- beeflet 2y agoOutside cats, at least, are independent. It's evidenced by the existence of so many stray cats. They have leverage that other pets don't. They don't need to understand the whole household. They only need to understand if they are being mistreated, in which case they can choose to leave and hunt vermon until the end of their (very few) days. So I think it is better to be a housecat than a lapdog at least.