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| − | {{DES | des = Used by libertarians in the oxymoronic "government something is illegitimate." Oxymoronic because legitimate | + | {{DES | des = Used by libertarians in the oxymoronic "government something is illegitimate." Oxymoronic because a primary meaning of legitimate is "legal", which is determined by government. When a libertarian says something stupid such as "government ownership of territory is illegitimate" what they really mean is that they dislike it. Debasing legitimacy to be merely opinion runs smack into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is–ought_problem is-ought problem], and one person's opinion is no better than another's for such moral claims. No claim or argument, including libertarian claims and arguments, is valid to such a universally skeptical strategy. | show=}} |
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