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Good People, Break Bad Laws

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Those deluded Andrew Ryan/Robert House wannabes are doomed to failure just as the Communists were.

In reality capitalism requires government enforcement via rule of law.

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@athousandyoung said
Those deluded Andrew Ryan/Robert House wannabes are doomed to failure just as the Communists were.

In reality capitalism requires government enforcement via rule of law.
Libertarians:

There is a role for the state: Police, Justice, Defense

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@wajoma said
Libertarians:

There is a role for the state: Police, Justice, Defense
Defending capitalists against enemies foreign and domestic.

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@no1marauder said
Defending capitalists against enemies foreign and domestic.
You mean citizens.

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@wajoma said
You mean citizens.
Originally the US only gave citizenship to property owners so that was true then but not so much any more.

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@athousandyoung said
Originally the US only gave citizenship to property owners so that was true then but not so much any more.
There are countries that make it so you have to be a citizen before you can own property. There's always someone making some new rule, supposedly for the good of everyone else but all they're doing is satisfying their own lust for power.

Country A says you have own land to be a citizen, country B say you have to be a citizen to own land. The only conclusions can be:

1/ A is right B is bad law.
2/ B is right A is bad law
3/ A and B are both wrong.

This is that we need to start questioning, how and why this is happening, this is what the vid in the OP was about.

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@wajoma said
You mean citizens.
Your list overwhelmingly favors protections most necessary for the wealthy. "Citizens" might well be more concerned that a State (assuming one is necessary) protect them from abject poverty or disease or homelessness or a myriad of other misfortunes. Yet, laissez faire libertarians oppose all such protections.

Maybe you could explain why.