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(Originally at [https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughLibertarianSpam/comments/2jbfvg/the_libertarian_and_the_genie/ EnoughLibertarianSpam].)

A libertarian finds a magic lamp, and when he mixes his labor with it a genie appears. The genie tells him he can have three wishes.

His first wish is for an end to government and coercion, and the genie says "It shall be so!". Immediately people start non-violently taking everything they desire because nobody can coerce them to stop. The libertarian's car is taken and he is upset to find people living in his house and taking his stuff.

His second wish is to make the world a capitalist utopia; for everything to be property and all people to respect property without coercion. The genie says "So be it!" and poof, everything is property: but the libertarian finds that he is a slave, property of somebody else.

Unhappy about his slavery, and not wanting to undo his wishes, the libertarian's third wish is for his own perfect liberty, to be uncoerced by anybody. The genie says "You didn't really need me for that!" and drops him naked in the middle of the ocean.
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