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> I sincerely hope everyone gets through safely. ... The natural corollary to the Kim Stanley Robinson-ian "That's libertarians for you -- anarchists who call

• icebraining 13y ago
  Even a cursory glance at the Libertarianism page on Wikipedia would've shown you that not all libertarians are anti-State police. But I disagree about your criticism even against those that are. Playing Devil's advocate, if the Mafia took control of your city, and forced you to pay 20% of everything you made (or be taken from your home and family), but offered to "take care" of any other criminals that might bother you, would it be hypocritical of you to not want to get robbed twice, and therefore use the services that you already had been forced to pay for? When you live in a system that is forced upon you, it's not hypocritical to use the benefits of that system, since you're forced to withstand its drawbacks.
  • tlrobinson 13y ago
    Another example would be people calling Ayn Rand a hypocrite for accepting social security. Where do they think that money originally came from?
• calpaterson 13y ago
  Most libertarians are pro-police and pro-state. For a lot of them, the police and the courts are the only government bodies they support
  • darkarmani 13y ago
    The argument being that the state's only function is to enforce property rights (and needs physical force to do so).