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What would you do if you were appointed King of the USA today? [Edit: To clarify, I mean what would do to advance libertarianism, assuming you didn't let the power go to your head. The power is greater than a traditional king, in fact every single person in the land will do whatever you say.] Assume you have absolute authority and no one will ever
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Knowing how ambiguous Japanese is, I decided to look up Finance Minister Yosano's comment where he was supposed to have claimed "unshakable" faith in the dollar as reserve currency. Here's the actual quote, followed by a very literal translation to show the ambiguity: 国際通貨体制の見直し論が一部の国で出ていることについて、与謝野財務相は「あらゆる面から考えて基軸通貨がドルであり続けることは確信しており
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[quote user="liberty student"]Culturally and politically, we are moving closer to panarchism .[/quote] Wow, that's a really interesting idea, probably a step-stone toward AnCap. What I wonder about is law enforcement. If someone commits a violent crime but they are not affiliated with a government that is tough on crime, what happens?
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Socialism, Communism, Minarchism, Statism, Anarcho-Capitalism. To line up such words side-by-side is to imply a fallacy. To quote the eminent scholar Cookie Monster , "One of these things is not like the other things. One of these things just doesn't belong." That's easy, you may say. It's obvious that the first four advocate a
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[quote user="bbnet"]Eventually the states will be so desperate they'll either concede stolen powers back to the people or make unapproved net use a capital crime.[/quote] Thanks for the props! The hackers have come up with some amazingly clever ways around state intervention. Check this out: [quote user="Wikipedia"]...crypto
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[quote user="Stephen Forde"]A good game of chess will always have strong emotional involvment and people's egos are on the line.This isn't a big deal if they are mature and appreciate and enjoy brilliant moves, whether they are made by them or their opponents (analogous to brilliant arguments).[/quote] I appreciate this way of looking
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[quote user="Solomon"]The first and last lesson of libertarianism is that human society is self-ordering.[/quote] Right, so we are here only discussing what we theorize the free market of human interactions free from government will in fact decide on as common law. All other (archist/statist) political theories are of a fundamentally different
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When we think of micro-secession, we think of the Free State Project, Sealand, and other geographically based attempts at stateless societies. And we imagine that government in a particular location will vanish all at once. I submit that the state is already being dismantled piece by piece on the Internet. First of all, what are the power structures
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Since the change has to come about by individual choice, rather than by edict, I see only two major vehicles: 1) Education (educating people that we would be better of without governments) 2) Incentivization (creating a stateless society that others want to emulate, perhaps by micro-secession or seasteading) To be a real incentive, the stateless society
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[quote user="Solomon"]See (the last section of) Long's article Why Does Justice Have Good Consequences .[/quote] Having read this, I suppose libertarians chose the rule of "no coercion against property rights," and defined it in the way that they have because that definition works best in real life vis a vis human action. Long