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The problem with the “initiation of force” arguments of libertarians is that they boil down to “Uses of force that we like are retaliation; anything we don’t like is initiation of force.” Humpty Dumpty couldn’t have said it better himself when he pays words extra to mean what he wants.
 
The problem with the “initiation of force” arguments of libertarians is that they boil down to “Uses of force that we like are retaliation; anything we don’t like is initiation of force.” Humpty Dumpty couldn’t have said it better himself when he pays words extra to mean what he wants.
  
For example, libertarians also consider fraud to be initiation of force.  How is fraud force?  And there is no individual right to be free of fraud: remember "let the buyer beware"?  Or do should we make up that right too?
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For example, libertarians also consider fraud to be initiation of force.  How is fraud force?  And there is no individual right to be free of fraud: remember "let the buyer beware"?  Or should we make up that right too?
  
 
Libertarianism does not shun initiation of force at all: it just calls it retaliation. If a starving man starts to peacefully eat fruit from a libertarian's tree, a libertarian can violently attack him, initiating force, while screaming “My property! Mine!”
 
Libertarianism does not shun initiation of force at all: it just calls it retaliation. If a starving man starts to peacefully eat fruit from a libertarian's tree, a libertarian can violently attack him, initiating force, while screaming “My property! Mine!”

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