Difference between revisions of "Libertarianism in One Lesson; The Fourth Lesson"
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* All three [[Atlas Shrugged]] films were terrific financial flops. The market has spoken! | * All three [[Atlas Shrugged]] films were terrific financial flops. The market has spoken! | ||
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+ | * Libertarians sneer at the possibility of equality, but conveniently forget that when they say they want equal liberty. | ||
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+ | * One man's liberty is another man's slavery. Often literally: the liberty to own slaves has been a frequent, real world oxymoron. | ||
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+ | * Wealth gains from crony capitalism are wrong and immoral! Which is why we should do absolutely nothing to remove those ill-gotten gains from the crony capitalists. | ||
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+ | * Social contracts are mythical: we never signed one. But the system of property rights is natural, doesn't need a signature, and must never be questioned. | ||
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+ | * A libertarian calling you a 'statist' is like a pedophile calling you an 'adult-fucker'. (Suetonius Jones) | ||
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+ | * You hate statism, yet you live in a state, rely on state defense and police, and are employed by fellow statists. (response to hate capitalism) You hate the state yet don’t see any power dynamic between corporations and people. | ||
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+ | * The two-party system of the USA is a [[Spontaneous Order]], and the Libertarian Party has the nerve to complain about it? | ||
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+ | * Isn't it funny that methodological individualists abandon all pretense of their methodology to denounce government? | ||
== See also: == | == See also: == |