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Now, don’t get me wrong, it is typical braindead libertarian rhetoric, but there sort of is a valid point in there. I think one of the big injustices of our ti
by arrrg 13y ago
Now, don’t get me wrong, it is typical braindead libertarian rhetoric, but there sort of is a valid point in there.
I think one of the big injustices of our time we will look back to with disgust (like slavery 200 years ago) is not allowing people to go wherever they want to go. What gives us any right to deny people to live anywhere on the planet they want to?
It’s just that I absolutely do not believe that abolishing (all or large parts of) government is any kind of solution to this.
(And, yes, this would have often dire economic consequences for some. Just as abolishing slavery had dire economic consequences for some. Doing the right thing isn’t free.)
- oleganza 13y agoLets have slavery as an example. You feel uncomfortable abolishing government completely. That's fine. How'd it work with slavery? Imagine we decide that slavery is not good. Should we just let every slave run away (at the expense of cotton plantation owners who'd immediately incur losses)? Or should we release every 10th slave this month, then every 9th next month etc.? Is it then moral to shoot down a slave who'll be freed two months from now, if he runs away today?