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Hypothetical: Let's Negotiate an Overhaul of the Economy

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Brandyon, Nov 9, 2012.

  1. Commodore

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    no to all of those

    If your expectation is the police will stop a rape before the fact, good luck with that. They aren't posting a guard outside your house.

    Obviously you aren't forced to protect yourself. If you want to keep the doors unlocked with no personal protection, that's your right.
     
  2. pirc1

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    Just the threat of police might come in a few minutes prevent most people from committing crimes. If you just remove all police forces from this country, you will see what happen to crime rates.
     
  3. Deji McGever

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    And the term Libertarian was hijacked from members of the first International that opposed Marx's state socialism and were anything but Laissez-faire fetishists. Outside US it is used to describe different streams of anarchism. It's way more Emma Goldman than it is Ayn Rand.

    The closest thing I can think of real libertarian ideas but into action were in pre-Franco Catalonia, and that was a state that relied heavily on the very things the US Libertarian Party despises: Labor Unions.
     
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