I hate that the only viable "third party" are these chucklefucks.
Fuck you, you dipshits. "WhAt iF tHe cHiLd CoNsEnTs" bullshit. Also, there is no such thing as more competition with less regulation. Fucking morons.
I hate that the only viable "third party" are these chucklefucks.
Fuck you, you dipshits. "WhAt iF tHe cHiLd CoNsEnTs" bullshit. Also, there is no such thing as more competition with less regulation. Fucking morons.
If libertarians had their way and got the perfect stateless world they dream of, it would immediately be taken over by new privately owned states run by whoever was able to use the most physical violence. Nobody would give a shit about all the silly little principles of libertarians. What are they going to do once the guys with guns initiates aggression against them or takes their property? Tell them they are violating natural law? Their utopia would be a violent and oppressive nightmare.
Libertarianism, both in the extremist "an"cap variant and in the more realistic "cops should protect my right to pay my child labourers in heroin" ultimately relies on thought experiments and hypothetical scenarios for its arguments. You never hear them talk about the real world it is always some bullshit about how "what if two people lived on an island and one of them had all the coconuts and the other one had all the bananas, then they would agree to trade one coconut for three bananas and they wouldn't need an age of consent". In order for their ideology to look reasonable they have to apply it to a fictional fantasy world where they can remove all those real-life factors that makes libertarianism impossible.
Some of them are aware of this, actually. In Anarchy, State, Utopia, Nozick argues explicitly in favor of a justice system ran by multiple competing private security firms. He even walks through some of the insane ramifications of that system but then concludes that it's good actually
I thought libertarians were against bureaucracy? That sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare.
Oh, it absolutely would be. But it's a private bureaucracy
Which means it's super efficient as is. But also needs disruptors at the same time to give it competition. And competition is good for the consumer. Even though competition can be totally dismantled by undercutting, merging with, or buying out competitors. Then stocks go up and somehow that's good for the consumer, too.
Really, when you think about it: it's just the Invisible Hand being awesome at everything.
Or just by bears, lol
Critical support for our ursine comrades :hexbear-shining:
https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project