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RE: Dutch Libertarian explains why taxation is theft and shuts up socialist MP
I just came to say taxation is theft.
I have only one big problem with libertarians and is that they seem to trust emergent consensus and that has never worked in game theory models mathematically (although it happens in some realms of physics). They seem to behave like they want free government, and I like everything to be paid for, although never compulsorily.
I don't think libertarians believe in emergent consensus at all, and that's why you can't have a government that handles a one-size-fits-all policy. I agree with you that on an international level this has never 'worked', but that doesn't mean that it's impossible. The theorists couldn't predict the fall of the Soviet Union, nor could they predict many other things and so a lot of theories about state formation emerged. Why wouldn't it be possible that it will work some time in the future? There's a first time for everything :) I also don't think it's a valid justification to just ignore natural law, just because it "doesn't work" in the current political world order.
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Oh, they may not believe in emergent consensus but they seem to trust it when it appears in front of them. Thus the reason Bitcoin and precious metals as stores of value are the economic building stone of the economy, which is of emergent consensus (It would be like they being men, sucking dicks and saying they are not gay). I didn't mention international success or not of libertarianism. Only mentioned that they seem to want free government, which is hypocritical if everything must be paid for.