Difference between revisions of "Libertarianism in One Lesson (Parody)"
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* Spiritually baptize the deceased as libertarians because they cannot protest the anachronism: Locke, Smith, Paine, Jefferson, Spooner, etc. | * Spiritually baptize the deceased as libertarians because they cannot protest the anachronism: Locke, Smith, Paine, Jefferson, Spooner, etc. | ||
* The most heavily armed libertarian has the biggest dick and thus the best argument. | * The most heavily armed libertarian has the biggest dick and thus the best argument. | ||
| − | * The best multi-party democratic republics should be equated to the worst dictatorships for the purposes of denouncing statism. It's only a matter of degree. | + | * The best multi-party democratic republics should be equated to the worst dictatorships and mafias for the purposes of denouncing statism. It's only a matter of degree. |
* Inviolate private property is the only true measure of freedom. Those without property have the freedom to try to acquire it. If they can't, let them find somebody else's property to complain on. | * Inviolate private property is the only true measure of freedom. Those without property have the freedom to try to acquire it. If they can't, let them find somebody else's property to complain on. | ||
* Private ownership is the cure for all problems, despite the historical record of privately owned states such as Nazi Germany, Czarist and Stalinist Russia, and Maoist China. | * Private ownership is the cure for all problems, despite the historical record of privately owned states such as Nazi Germany, Czarist and Stalinist Russia, and Maoist China. | ||
