Gregory's ServerImplicit corollary: "work makes you free".
Tell me that's not saying the quiet part loud.
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@rrwo @cstross I laughed, but an anarchist should be completely against slavery in every form. The huge difference between anarchists and libertarians is that a libertarian believes that the desires of the individual always take priority over the needs of society, so for example my desire to own a gun would always trump society's need not to have their children shot to death. @TomSwirly @rrwo There's a whole thread of US conservative thought (I won't dignify it with the label "philosophy") that starts by asking "if I am a sovereign individual, do I have the right to sell my kidney? Okay, how about the right to sell myself?" And does a deep dive into concluding that yes, slavery *is* compatible with libertarianism (because property rights are the ONLY rights). Then they throw away the diving board of logic and out themselves as slavery stans. It gets very ugly, fast. |
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“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
-Kim Stanley Robinson